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There are a number of advocacy models used when undertaking the nursing practis.

These include client advocacy, institutional advocacy as well as physician advocacy. Advocacy

simply relates to the way an individual takes a particular approach to conquering a given illness

or complication, or better still prevent it from happening. As such, practicing nurses have a

variety of choices to select from when making a section of the best advocacy approach to

undertake when dealing with a given compromising situation during their everyday practice. The

main options of these advocacy models assumed by nurses include the patient advocacy model.

This patient’s advocacy model relates to an area of lay specialization that concerns with

education of the patients in the health care and related complications. This model advocates for

the use of health plans as well as promote the means of obtaining the needed healthcare by an

individual or patient within the community (Guido, 2010).

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A number of state actors exist under the patient advocacy model that promote the

dissemination of knowledge, from the professional heath care providers all the way down to the

patients suffering from a given illness or at risk of falling victim to a given epidemic sweeping

across the community. Some of the patient advocates who promote this model are the

Government Consumer Advocacy Agencies. These agencies of the government provide services

at large to the public. On the other hand, other providers include the private sectors for profits as

well as not for profits that offer services to patients individually. This is a growing trend in the

modern day world where numerous complications that lead to the risk of many people within the

community exist, most governments have really taken up the task of patient advocacy. I fact, in

the United States of America, most of the constituting states established a structure or office

within their governments that provides patient advocacy (Huston & Marquis, 2009).

Nurses prefer patient advocacy because it has numerous state actors that assist in

disseminating the right knowledge to assist the patients to develop their prevention and approach

to certain illnesses and complications. The fact that the government and other concerned

agencies take part in teaching patients or the community at large on how well the prevent

themselves from catching a given infection, or from suffering from a given complication, is the

best way to approach prevention of treatable illnesses within the community. Some of the

interventions provided by these state agencies and other participating parties include how to

prevent the spread and infection of common communicable diseases such as common cold,

hepatitis, STDs and HIV/AIDS. Once the patients know how to protect themselves from

infection, as well as how to control the spread of these illnesses from one person to the next or

from one geographical region to the next, there are lesser and lesser cases of infections and

illnesses in the society. As such, this leads to the well being and health soundness of the

community at large (Pozgar, 2013).

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Advocacy Models Most Used in Nursing Name Instructor Date Advocacy Models Most Used in Nursing There are a number of advocacy models used when undertaking the nursing practis. These include client advocacy, institutional advocacy as well as physician advocacy. Advocacy simply relates to the way an individual takes a particular approach to conquering a given illness or complication, or better still prevent it from happening. As such, practicing nurses have a variety of choices to select from when making a section of the best advocacy approach to undertake when dealing with a given compromising situation during their everyday practice. The main options of these advocacy models assumed by nurses include the patient advocacy model. This patient's advocacy model relates to an area of lay specialization that concerns with education of the patients in the health care and rel ...
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