Patient Advocacy
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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'

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
• [Montérégie Comprehensive Cancer Care Centre: integrating nurse navigators in Montérégie's oncology teams: one aspect of implementing the Cancer Control Program--Part 1] 29 Nov 2009
• AIDS vaccine research and advocacy: an update. 29 Nov 2009
• ACC 2009 Advocacy Position Statement: Principles for comparative effectiveness research. 25 Oct 2009
• Intentional self-plagiarism. 22 Oct 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
• Euthanasia debate reignited. 19 Sep 2009
• Drugs are scarce as mix of programs aims to ease access. 13 Sep 2009
• Key concerns about the current state of bladder cancer: a position paper from the Bladder Cancer Think Tank, the Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network, and the Society of Urologic Oncology. 13 Sep 2009
• From tragedy to advocacy. 5 Sep 2009
• A crucial role as the patient's advocate. 30 Aug 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