Areas Requiring Nurse-patient advocacy
The lung cancer patient has decided they no longer want to receive chemotherapy and would prefer to discuss hospice care. The nurse is advocating for the client in which area?
A. Healthcare Reimbursment
B. Medical Errors
C. End of life decisions
D. Technological advances
End of life decisions
Advocacy refers to nurses’ role in supporting clients by ensuring that they are properly informed, that their rights are respected and that they are receiving the proper level of care.
A. Client Advocacy
B. Workplace Advocacy
C. Subordinate Advocacy
D. Self Advocacy
client advocacy
Determination to do what is necessary to achieve desired outcomes.
A. Risk taking
B. Vision
C. Assertiveness
D. Articulate communication
Assertiveness
A pt comes in after learning she has a lump in her breast and asks if she is going to be okay. The Doctor knows her diagnosis is stage 4 breast cancer, but tells the patient everything is going to be okay. What area of nurse patient advocacy is this?
A. End of life decisions
B. Medical errors
C. Patient information disclosure
D. Withholding information or blatantly lying to the patient.
Withholding information or blatantly lying to the patient.
Standing up for yourself to get personal desired outcomes
A. Client Advocacy
B. Workplace Advocacy
C. Subordinate Advocacy
D. Self Advocacy
Self Advocacy
The ability to think or plan for the future
A. Self confidence
B. Articulate communication
C. Assertiveness
D. Vision
Vision
A nurse witnesses a colleague print out a patients health records and leaves it in the printer. She tells her colleague not to do this. What area of nurse patient advocacy is this?
A. Patient information disclosure
B. Transitions in health care
C. Technological advances
D. Medical error
Patient information disclosure
Occurs when the manager assures the workplace environment is both safe and conducive to professional and personal growth.
A. Client Advocacy
B. Workplace Advocacy
C. Subordinate Advocacy
D. Self Advocacy
Workplace Advocacy
Trusting in ones abilities and qualities and judgments
A. Self confidence
B. Assertiveness
C. Vision
D. Risk taking
Self confidence
A is getting ready to give meds to her patients in room 24. In a rush, she grabs the medication for patient 24B and administers it to patient 24A. After realizing her mistake and assessing her patient she fills out an incident report. What area of nurse patient advocacy is she exhibiting?
A. Health care reimbursement
B. Medical Error
C. Aging population
D. Inadequate consents
Medical Error
When nurse administrators advocate for their subordinates (healthcare providers and patients)
A. Client Advocacy
B. Workplace Advocacy
C. Subordinate Advocacy
D. Self Advocacy
Subordinate Advocacy
The ability to speak clearly and consciously and conveying your point in an understandable way while advocating for your client.
A. Articulate Communication
B. Risk taking
C. Vision
D. Self confidence
Articulate Communication
A 17 year old girl comes in to the clinic and learns that she is pregnant. She asks the nurse not to tell her parents and the nurse complies. What area of nurse patient advocacy is this?
A. Transitions into healthcare
B. Incompetent healthcare providers
C. Aging population
D. Complex social problems
Complex social problems
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!
What are the Steps of Advocacy?
Being a client advocate
Following through or following up
Providing resources
Going above and beyond
A newly graduated resident puts in an order for KCL while the patient is already on spironolactone. The nurse notices this would result in hyperkalemia and tells him. He brushes her off but she stands her ground and gets him to remove the order. What skill is this?
A. Vison
B. Assertiveness
C. Risk taking
D. Articulate communication
Assertiveness