Define the role of the registered nurse

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Discussion Prompt #1

  • Specifically define the role of the registered nurse in patient advocacy. Describe situations in which nursing advocacy can assist patients within the healthcare environment. Defend why nurses are, or are not, adequately prepared, in prelicensure education, to act as patient advocates.

Discussion Prompt #2

  • The ANA Code of Ethics currently emphasizes the word "patient" instead of the word "client" in referring to nursing care recipients. Do you agree with this change? Why or why not? Review the ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements found in Appendix B of your Butts text.

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Running Head: HEALTH AND MEDICAL

Ethics in Nursing
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Discussion Prompt #1
Roles of registered nurses in the prospect of patient-centered advocacy
To the existing nursing fraternity, the ultimate job undertaking is the delivery of much
desire quality-care. However, to this category of professionals, there is much more than just the
mere aspect of getting to know the prevalent diseases. It is a reality that the existing nurses do
play a somewhat significant role in an endeavor where they strive to provide ardent care to the
patient guild while at the same time forging forward to achieve the ideology of improved health
of the entire population within their reach. Nurses on their part realize their role as advocates for
their patients through ways which could encompass being communicators, educators, caregivers,
liaisons as well as interpreters. The nurses accomplish their functions through:
Helping with making informed decisions; though deemed as one of the most basic
methodologies through which available nurses could implement their advocacy mandates, these
individuals believe that the patients have the right to possess resonate capability concerned with
making decisions on matters affecting their health. Such may be of dire importance during
stances when a patient is presumable to be alert and at the same time competent thereby
propelling the nurses in question to be relatively considerate of the decision arrived at by these
persons (Cole, Wellard & Mummery, 2014). The determ...


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