Terms
Concepts Related to Advocacy
Acts, Policies, and Organizations
When to Intervene
Advocacy Situations
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This can be defined as providing protection through expressing and defending the cause of another.
What is advocacy?
100
The role of the advocate is to uphold this general term for moral principles in any situation.
What are ethics?
100
This act from 1990 protects people with physical and/or mental health limitations in the workplace.
What is the Americans with Disabilities act?
100
Hitting or kicking clients is an example of this.
What is patient abuse?
100
Nurses often lack this when a situation to advocate arises.
What is "think time"?
200
This person defends and protects a client from harm.
What is a client advocate?
200
These include the rights, obligations, and scope of nursing practice through regulation and legislation.
What are legal issues?
200
A healthcare professional who acts in illegal, immoral, or unethical ways is in violation of this code.
What is the ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses?
200
This is the job of the nurse who prevents a client from "falling through the cracks".
What is the advocate's role?
200
This tool measures protective nursing actions.
What is the Protective Nursing Advocacy Scale?
300
This is giving your client the strength to make their own healthcare decisions.
What does empowering the client mean?
300
The nurse develops the trust of the public by performing these.
What are professional behaviors?
300
This organization helps individuals with mental illness advocate for better access to care and research on mental illness.
What is the National Alliance on Mental Illness?
300
A nurse-client relationship should have this quality.
What is respect, trust, or collaboration?
300
This is important to include when planning care for children.
What is play time?
400
These patients are in need of advocacy, since they are at risk for not being heard.
What are vulnerable patients?
400
The nurse considers these patterns of behavior and thinking that are learned from living in social groups.
What is culture and diversity?
400
This act from 1991 gave patients the right to accept or reject aspects of their medical care.
What is the Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA)?
400
This is a word that describes in what way a nurse should intervene and is similar to empowering.
What is enabling?
400
Nurses should advocate for just and equal access to this.
What is high-quality care?
500
These are behaviors that are considered unethical and inconsistent with accepted standards.
What are immoral behaviors?
500
These are the entities that provide care to clients and can be difficult to navigate.
What are healthcare systems?
500
This is our state's federally mandated nonprofit that advocates for individuals with disabilities.
What is Disability Rights North Carolina?
500
This should be completed before implementing interventions of care.
What is formulating a plan of care?
500
Advocating for patient's can eliminate these in a patient's care.
What are barriers?
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