Patient Advocacy - Ethics
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Nursing, religiosity, and end-of-life care: interconnections and implications.

29 Nov 2009 The influence of religious beliefs and practices at the end of life is underinvestigated. Given nursing's advocacy role and the intimate and personal nature of the dimensions of religiosity and the end of life, exploring the multidimensional ... Read more...

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...

Science, technology, and innovation: nursing responsibilities in clinical research.

29 Nov 2009 Clinical research is a systematic investigation of human biology, health, or illness involving human beings. It builds on laboratory and animal studies and often involves clinical trials, which are specifically designed to test the safety and ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Patient Advocacy - Ethics'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Nursing, religiosity, and end-of-life care: interconnections and implications. 29 Nov 2009
• Perspectives on transcultural care. 29 Nov 2009
• Science, technology, and innovation: nursing responsibilities in clinical research. 29 Nov 2009
• Healing during existential moments: the "art" of nursing presence. 29 Nov 2009
• Nursing advocacy in a postgenomic age. 29 Nov 2009
• Moral accountability and integrity in nursing practice. 29 Nov 2009
• Personal conscience and the problem of moral certitude. 29 Nov 2009
• To know, to reason, to act. 29 Nov 2009
• Japan approves brain death to increase donors: will it work? 22 Oct 2009
• Dealing with the ethical dimension of dementia care. Oct 2009
• Ethical care in dementia. 30 Sep 2009
• 'Undercover nurse' struck off the professional register for misconduct. 30 Aug 2009
• The Japanese value of harmony and nursing ethics. 30 Aug 2009
• Municipal night nurses' experience of the meaning of caring. 30 Aug 2009
• Ethical problems observed by student nurses. 30 Aug 2009
• Informed consent is more than a patient's signature. 25 Aug 2009
• [Compulsory hospital admission - coercive measures in medical care] 30 Jul 2009
• Public health, the APHA, and urban renewal. 14 Jul 2009
• An audit of health products advertised for sale on chiropractic Web sites in Canada and consideration of these practices in the context of Canadian chiropractic codes of ethics and conduct. 29 Jun 2009
• Nursing and euthanasia: a review of argument-based ethics literature. 29 Jun 2009

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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