DQ: Discuss the importance of advocacy as it pertains to patient care

DQ: Discuss the importance of advocacy as it pertains to patient care

You make a great point about how patient advocacy starts with communication between the nurse and patient. It also continues with the nurse and doctor while the care plan is being discussed (Helbig, 2018). Out of the whole health care team, nurses spend the most time with the patients and in my opinion, understands and values patient’s desires and needs. Also, wow you are an amazing nurse for saving that patient from elder abuse! It is so unfortunate how common elder abuse really is. You made such an impact on that patient’s life, great example of advocacy!

This is insightful. In nursing practice, advocacy involves promoting or respecting human dignity, enhancing patient equality in the course of healthcare delivery and providing freedom from suffering (Abbasinia et al., 2020). Advocacy is part and parcel of healthcare delivery processes. The whole process involves the provision of guidelines that govern different nursing practices. There are different cases or examples of nursing advocacy. For instance, lending patients’ ears and providing additional information to enhance healthcare delivery processes are examples of nurse advocacy (Liz, 2019). Nurse’s play significant roles in nursing advocacy; they always develop policies and guidelines that are useful in ensuring effective patient’s outcomes in the treatment process. With their expertise and experiences, nurses are able to establish different practices that ensure quality treatment processes. However, there are barriers associated with nurse advocacy; for instance, some nurses receive little or no support from the management of administrators and other healthcare professionals (Rosa et al., 2019). Through nursing advocacy, healthcare professionals have been able to achieve quality healthcare practices.