When Is It The Right Time To Advocate For A Patient?
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04/23/13
When is it the right time to advocate for a patient?
Modern nursing is complex, ever changing, and multi focused. Since the time of Florence Nightingale the goal of nursing has remained unchanged. Mainly to provide a safe and caring environment that promotes patient health and wellbeing. Effective use of an interpersonal tool, such as advocacy, enhances the care giving environment. Nightingale used advocacy early and often in the development of modern nursing. By reading her many letters and publications that have survived, it is possible to identify her professional goals and techniques. Specifically, Nightingale valued egalitarian human rights …show more content…
“this morning when I got up they had to change the bed sheets again because I had wet myself during the night like a baby who can’t control his bowls,” here is a quote from Gailings poem, it shows the reader how he feels about himself having to be in the nursing home. Like a little baby, that needs to be taken care of. He goes on to say how his nurse takes care of him and she is very nice and doesn’t mind doing the things for him. That she use to have to take care of her father when he was old and sick. This is an example of a good advocate for a nurse to be. The whole point of a nurse being an advocate for a patient is to be there at the time they need it. So the question is when is the right time to advocate for a patient?. It’s the right time when the patient is angry. It’s the right time when a patient is sad. It’s the right time when someone else is looking down on a patient. It is the right time when there is a mistake that will happen to the patient. Basically there is never a wrong time to advocate for a patient. What some people don’t understand is why sometimes nothing is said. Another story to show examples why people don’t say anything is “Why Don’t We Complain?” by William F. Buckley, JR. This story is about all different reasons why people don’t complain about things that really bother them in life. The reason why we don 't complain is very basic and fundamental. It is because of our culture, tradition, and heritage to not complain. It isn 't polite, it is considered rude. We are raised to behave ourselves, and when we were growing up, if we don 't behave we are
04/23/13
When is it the right time to advocate for a patient?
Modern nursing is complex, ever changing, and multi focused. Since the time of Florence Nightingale the goal of nursing has remained unchanged. Mainly to provide a safe and caring environment that promotes patient health and wellbeing. Effective use of an interpersonal tool, such as advocacy, enhances the care giving environment. Nightingale used advocacy early and often in the development of modern nursing. By reading her many letters and publications that have survived, it is possible to identify her professional goals and techniques. Specifically, Nightingale valued egalitarian human rights …show more content…
“this morning when I got up they had to change the bed sheets again because I had wet myself during the night like a baby who can’t control his bowls,” here is a quote from Gailings poem, it shows the reader how he feels about himself having to be in the nursing home. Like a little baby, that needs to be taken care of. He goes on to say how his nurse takes care of him and she is very nice and doesn’t mind doing the things for him. That she use to have to take care of her father when he was old and sick. This is an example of a good advocate for a nurse to be. The whole point of a nurse being an advocate for a patient is to be there at the time they need it. So the question is when is the right time to advocate for a patient?. It’s the right time when the patient is angry. It’s the right time when a patient is sad. It’s the right time when someone else is looking down on a patient. It is the right time when there is a mistake that will happen to the patient. Basically there is never a wrong time to advocate for a patient. What some people don’t understand is why sometimes nothing is said. Another story to show examples why people don’t say anything is “Why Don’t We Complain?” by William F. Buckley, JR. This story is about all different reasons why people don’t complain about things that really bother them in life. The reason why we don 't complain is very basic and fundamental. It is because of our culture, tradition, and heritage to not complain. It isn 't polite, it is considered rude. We are raised to behave ourselves, and when we were growing up, if we don 't behave we are