Policy Weeks 11, 12 & 13
What is advocacy? - Correct Answer to plead the cause of another
What are nurses advocates for? (6) - Correct Answer - patients
- families
- nursing profession (by education and appealing to legislators and policymakers)
- disease promotion
- health promotion
- a...
Policy Weeks 11, 12 & 13
What is advocacy? - Correct Answer to plead the cause of another
What are nurses advocates for? (6) - Correct Answer - patients
- families
- nursing profession (by education and appealing to legislators and policymakers)
- disease promotion
- health promotion
- access to health care
How do nurses serve as advocates for the nursing profession? - Correct Answer educating and appealing
to state and federal legislators and policymakers to promote safe workspaces for nurses and to
safeguard the nursing scope of practice.
Through the 1980s who were nurses suppose to be loyal to? - Correct Answer to their physician leaders,
the primary goal of loyalty by nurses was to project and reinforce confidence in the health care
enterprise. Nurses were taught that loyalty to the physician equated with faithfulness to the patient.
What helped change nursing's role from loyalty to physicians to advocacy for patients? - Correct Answer
A physician ordered a new graduate nurse, to administer cocaine injections, instead of procaine
injections to a tonsillectomy patient. The nurse carried out the physician's order, resulting in the death
of the patient. The physician was acquitted on all charges, but the nurses was found guilty of
manslaughter for failing to question the orders of the physician. This case sparked worldwide protests
from nurses and served to push nursing toward independent practice and accountability.
Early forms of nursing advocacy borrowed heavily from ____________ models of advocacy and centered
on ________________ and patient's _____________ - Correct Answer legal models, centered on
consumerism and patient's rights
,The concept of "nurse as advocate for the patient" recognized the inherently oppressive nature of
patienthood, wherein the patient is ______________ as a result of his or her illness and unable to care
for himself or herself - Correct Answer vulnerable
Why are nurses uniquely situated to advocate for patients? (2) - Correct Answer - because they spend
the most time with patients and have an intimate connection with patients and their families
- have the most influence over the patient's experience while the patient is hospitalized or ill
What are the three types of nursing advocacy that influence policy, population health and the
profession of nursing? - Correct Answer 1. issue advocacy
2. community and public health advocacy
3. professional advocacy
What is an example of issue advocacy? - Correct Answer - mental health nurses are frequent advocates
for programs and services
- goal setting with these patients to integrate the into the community(cant be done without the
existence of health care services and programs that support such integration)
Issue advocacy occurs when nursing care of patients extends beyond _______________ - Correct
Answer the hospital or clinic
Issue advocacy directly promotes improved ___________________________, although it does not
involve advocacy on the _________________________ - Correct Answer improved patient outcomes,
does not advocate on behalf on any one individual
How is issue advocacy best accomplished? - Correct Answer through the formation of coalition
What does community and public health advocacy focus on? (2) - Correct Answer the social structures
and behaviors that have a significant impact on health
, What are some health determinants that community and public health advocates look at? (4) - Correct
Answer - quality of the environment
- the nature of human relationships
- the durability of the social infrastructure
- the justice inherent in the social order
How can nurses be community and public health advocates? - Correct Answer to work with communities
to mitigate social determinants of illness and promote health
____________________ compose the largest segment of the health care workforce - Correct Answer
nurses
_____________________ deliver almost all of the care to patients in the hospital setting - Correct
Answer nurses
The amount and quality of nursing care that patients receive is directly related to a number of health
_________________- - Correct Answer outcomes
Professional advocacy involves examining what issues? (4) - Correct Answer - workplace safety
- nurse/patient ratios
- expanded scope of practice
- limitations on malpractice liability
Because nurses have a direct relationship to the health of patients, advocacy on behalf of the nursing
profession is a powerful form of _________________ advocacy. - Correct Answer patient
What are some barriers to advocacy? - Correct Answer - advocacy is time consuming
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