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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"patient advocacy"”.
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Exploring the Relationships of Power, Attitudes regarding Intermittent Fetal Monitoring, and Perceived Barriers to Research Utilization with a Labor and Delivery Nurse's Attitude toward Patient Advocacy
… treatment options. Nursing includes the role of patient advocacy. There was a need to better understand what is associated with a labor and delivery nurse’s attitude toward patient advocacy.</p> <p><strong> </strong>This descriptive correlational research design examined the relationships of …
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The Relationship Between Perceptions of Patient Safety Culture, Nurse Advocacy, and Nurse Sensitive Patient Outcomes
… to understand relationships between and among patient safety culture, nurse reported attitude toward patient advocacy and key patient outcomes. Nurses play an integral role in patient safety, providing care through constant interaction with the patient and clinical team. Advocating for patients …
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Morality In Action: Risking Death And Caring For Life In American Food Allergy Worlds
… and caretaking. This text brings to light how patients and caretakers balance the risk of harm and death posed by a highly allergic body with the desire to live a "normal" social life, how the pursuit of the "hygienic sublime" to minimize risk intensifies the moral stakes of caretaking and self …
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Coping With Labor Education for Nurses
… is offered at the bedside for the laboring patient can potentially decrease cesarean rates, reduce expenses, and increase savings. The objectives of this plan are to improve patient advocacy and the level of labor support interventions labor and delivery nurses will provide for patients to …
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Midline Catheter Usage in the Neonatal Population
… policy and procedure for MC criteria is needed. Patient advocacy and nurse-to-physician collaboration were evaluated with questions regarding identification and implementation of a MC in appropriate cases.</p>
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Building Collaborative Care Through the Formation of Organizational Partnerships and Interprofessional Education in Clinical Learning Environments: A Case Study
… site’s academic institution, health system, and patient-advocacy committee. In semi-structured reflective interviews and focus groups, these informants shared their perceived roles, responsibilities, and experiences. Documents and artifacts were also reviewed. Analysis and triangulation of …
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What makes personalized medicine work? : an empirical analysis of the role of product attributes, medical professional societies and patient groups in the diffusion of four breast cancer genetic tests
… serve as an example of this approach, where most patients have experienced its benefits through the use of genetic tests that provide decision support for health care workers regarding the likely effectiveness of specific drugs and, more broadly, the urgency of particular treatment options (for …
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A rhetorical analysis of patient decision aids for genetic testing: Scientific knowledge, embodiment, and problematic integration in biomedicine
I consider how patient decision aids—technical communication documents created by biomedical practitioners—work to help people decide whether they should request genetic tests. I sample a genre of non-commercial patient decision aids that I term gateway documents developed by representatives of …
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Increasing Awareness of Fertility Preservation Options in Cancer Patients & Survivors
… offering available preservation options to all patients or refer interested patients to reproductive specialists (Lee et al., 2006). However, patients are not consistently offered information regarding fertility preservation (Tschudin et al., 2010).</p> <p>Fertility preservation as part of …
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Pharmaceutical relationships : intersections of illness, fantasy, and capital in the age of direct-to-consumer marketing
… ethnography among marketers, consumer-patients and psychiatrists in the U.S. It explores the recent history of styles of pharmaceutical advertising that have come about in response to FDA regulations and ethical issues raised by patients and the press about how the pharmaceutical …
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Increase Access to Healthcare and Decrease Health Disparities
… them to a Primary Care Provider through the "Patient Advocacy Program" aka, "Abundant Life Program," at City Impact’s Health and Wellness Clinic. This project focuses on the Clinical Nurse Leadership (CNL) role of Nurse Leadership and the CNL curriculum competency role is concentrated on …
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Perspectives of ICU Nurses on Professional Autonomy: A Descriptive Qualitative Study
… need to make decisions, advocate for their patients, and use their clinical judgment promptly. While professional autonomy has been linked to job satisfaction, retention, and patient safety, few studies have sought ICU nurses' perspectives on autonomy and its influences. Such understanding …
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Protective Nursing Advocacy Scale
Nursing advocacy for patients is considered to be an important function of nursing practice. The research surrounding nursing advocacy is relatively new, with few psychometric instruments developed to measure nursing advocacy. The purpose of this study was to determine the psychometric properties …
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Determinants and Effectiveness of Nonpharmacologic Pain Interventions Versus Prescription Opioids
… may provide an avenue to reduce disparities via patient advocacy and health literacy initiatives. Aim 1 established that occupational therapy and/or physical therapy were the most commonly used nonpharmacologic treatment providers after surgery; however, these providers are not currently …
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A Phenomenological Inquiry into Healthcare Professionals Who Are Experts in Cannabinoid Therapy and the Endocannabinoid System (ECS)
… are unprepared and inexperienced to advise patients in medical cannabis use. Patients who acquire knowledge and guidance from their healthcare professionals about cannabis use know related risks and have benefitted from the plant’s efficacy and quality of life. Even though there are number …
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Social, political and economic implications of self-blood glucose monitoring in type 2 diabetes management
… not clinically improve glycaemic control in all patients with non-insulin treated type 2 diabetes (NITT2DM). Funding and practice models are influenced by stakeholders, including industry and patient advocacy groups. Yet how Australian HCPs formulate their views regarding SMBG has not been …
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Knowledge management in virtual organizations: A study of a best practices knowledge transfer model.
… a network of individuals and groups who practice patient advocacy in the research and treatment of cancer. These advocates volunteer in various capacities and are not collocated nor do they report to any single organizational entity. Volunteer participants were randomly assigned to a treatment or …
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REGULATION AND GOVERNANCE OF ACCESS TO UNPROVEN MEDICAL INTERVENTIONS IN CANADA; A CASE STUDY ANALYSIS
… decisions and guidance, news media, and patient advocacy activity. The role of law helped set boundaries for the data collection and analysis, which focused primarily on regulatory and governance tools and strategies that use or are empowered or constrained by law. A second objective of …
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Why clinical practice guidelines shift over time : a dynamic model with application to prostate cancer screening
… organizations in the U.S. and by clinicians, patient groups, and the media. Essay 2: Our Walk to the End of Cancer? Understanding Long-Term Trends in Medical Screening In this study we develop the first integrated, broad boundary feedback theory and formal model to explain the dynamics of …
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