Patient Advocacy - Education
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Perspectives on transcultural care.

29 Nov 2009 Culture has been defined as the thoughts, communications, actions, customs, beliefs, values, and institutions of racial, ethnic, religious, or social groups. A culture of nursing refers to the learned and transmitted lifeways, values, symbols, ... Read more...

Nursing advocacy in procedural pain care.

29 Apr 2009 In nursing, the concept of advocacy is often understood in terms of reactive or proactive action aimed at protecting patients' legal or moral rights. However, advocacy activities have not often been researched in the context of everyday clinical ... Read more...

Teaching and learning about advocacy.

30 Jan 2009 Advocacy is an essential skill in the practice of paediatrics, where much of the work covers aspects of health as well as disease and where cross-agency work is common. Educationally, advocacy is best taught using a competency based approach and the ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Patient Advocacy - Education'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Perspectives on transcultural care. 29 Nov 2009
• Nursing advocacy in procedural pain care. 29 Apr 2009
• Teaching and learning about advocacy. 30 Jan 2009
• The ethics of nursing student international clinical experiences. 30 Dec 2008
• A multidisciplinary program to educate and advocate for living donors. 29 Nov 2008
• A concept analysis of cultural sensitivity. 29 Jun 2008
• Advocacy training in US advanced pediatric dentistry training programs. 28 Feb 2008
• Conscientious objection: a potential neonatal nursing response to care orders that cause suffering at the end of life? Study of a concept. 28 Feb 2008
• Why should we increase public awareness of bladder cancer, and how can we do it? 28 Feb 2008
• Nurses' advocacy behaviors in end-of-life nursing care. 28 Feb 2008
• Development and psychometric evaluation of the instrument: attitude toward patient advocacy. 30 Jan 2008
• Health advocacy for refugees: Medical student primer for competence in cultural matters and global health. 30 Oct 2007
• A complementary approach to promoting professionalism: identifying, measuring, and addressing unprofessional behaviors. 30 Oct 2007
• Barriers to nursing advocacy: a concept analysis. 29 Sep 2007
• Nurses' knowledge of their legal responsibilities towards patient care. 30 Aug 2007
• Cultural differences with end-of-life care in the critical care unit. 30 Aug 2007
• Should family members be present during cardiopulmonary resuscitation? A review of the literature. 30 Jul 2007
• Patient advocacy and advance care planning in the acute hospital setting. 30 May 2007
• 'Smoke gets in your eyes': a research-informed professional education and advocacy programme. 9 May 2007
• Using interactive multimedia to teach parent advocacy skills: an exploratory study. 29 Apr 2007

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Technical information about 'Patient Advocacy'

Definition: Promotion and protection of the rights of patients, frequently through a legal process.

Descriptor UI: D010344

Alternative terms: Patient Advocacy; Advocacy, Patient; Patient Ombudsmen; Ombudsmen, Patient; Patient Ombudsman; Ombudsman, Patient; Patient Representatives; Patient Representative; Representative, Patient; Representatives, Patient; Clinical Ombudsman; Ombudsman, Clinical;

Related Mesh Headings: Patient Rights;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; education; history; legislation & jurisprudence; psychology; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: I01.880.604.631; N03.706.678;

History Note: 76