- Title
- Who speaks for whom? Can nurses be patient advocates in renal settings?
- Creator
- Wellard, Sally
- Date
- 2014
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/96378
- Identifier
- vital:10141
- Identifier
- http://www.renalsociety.org/journal/volume-10-no-2/
- Identifier
- ISSN:1832-3804
- Abstract
- Nursing texts laud the role of nurses as advocates for patients. With increased acknowledgement of patient-centred care, is it appropriate or desired for nurses to presume this as their role? An examination of concepts of advocacy and autonomy highlight potential conflicts between the nurses' adoption of the roles of advocate and surveyor in renal care. There is no clear and definitive answer to 'who can speak for whom' when considering advocacy for people involved in renal replacement therapies. It is evident that what is required is clearer articulation of how renal nurses can act as advocates for patients within the context of their multiple roles and with a goal of partnerships in care.
- Publisher
- Renal Society of Australasia
- Relation
- Renal Society of Australasia Journal Vol. 10, no. 2 (2014), p. 81-83
- Rights
- Copyright © Renal Society of Australasia
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1103 Clinical Sciences; 1110 Nursing; Advocacy; Autonomy; Nurses' role; Partnership
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