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Patient Advocacy: A Closer Look

Diversity Nursing

Patient advocacy is a critical aspect of providing safe and effective patient care. Nurse advocates are tasked with helping patients understand and navigate their healthcare journey, including answering questions, explaining medical care, discussing and explaining billing or insurance, and other healthcare-related topics.

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5 Risk Control Considerations as Nurse Practitioners’ Scope of Practice Expands

Minority Nurse

Professional Liability Trends and Implications Professional liability trends are evolving as NPs take on greater responsibility for patient care. Where NPs have reduced or restricted practice authority to provide patient care, liability is often shared with supervising physicians (Candello, 2023). Informed Consent.

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New DAISY Ethics Award Celebrates Nurses’ Integrity

Nurse.com

When you’re a nurse, every shift presents the possibility that an ethical dilemma will emerge. And these dilemmas run the gamut from whether a patient has been invited to participate in their own treatment plan to whether an end-of-life care plan respects a patient’s spirituality or personal preferences.

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“Such insight into research” Undergraduate BSc Hons Nursing Research Internship

Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

This aspect of the internship has been particularly well received as the students have been able to apply their university-based learning to practice as well as see the direct impact of research on patient care. She demonstrates the positivity and opportunities presented by research internships.

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The Nursing Code of Ethics: Everything You Need To Know

Nurse.com

In a 2015 presentation , the ANA explained that the first three provisions of the nursing Code of Ethics address direct patient care and describe the most fundamental values and commitments of the nurse. Autonomy and informed consent to treatment. Breaches of patient confidentiality or right to privacy.

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Advance Care Planning Discussion: Susan Hickman, Sean Morrison, Rebecca Sudore, and Bob Arnold

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But I do think POLST, which I conceptualize as an advance care planning tool, really sits in between those worlds of decisions that are relevant for the present versus the few future. So I think that really questioning what we do is a good thing that routes to improved patient care. Hopefully that answers your question.

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AI for surrogate decision making?!? Dave Wendler, Jenny Blumenthal-Barby, Teva Brender

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Butstay with us heremight AI help to address some of the major issues present in surrogate decision making? When Teva Brender and Brian Block first approached me about writing a thought piece about this idea, my initial response was, Hell no. You may be thinking the same. Or does it raise more issues than it solves?

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