Nurse Advocates Function as Partners, Collaborators, Liaisons, and Community Resource Links:
Nurse Advocates partner with clients and their families while joining their healthcare journey to help educate, support, and navigate/guide them through difficult healthcare decisions. Nurse advocates gently remind clients of their rights and are fierce supporters or their client’s decisions. Nurse Advocates ensure all questions are answered and bear signature witness to Informed Consent forms attesting that client’s have been fully educated and understand all of the risks, benefits, and any evidenced-based alternatives available (second opinions) BEFORE they sign the Informed Consent forms.
RNPAS believes ‘it takes a village’ and that ‘team-work makes the dream work’ and as their client’s professional Advocate, RNPAS will utilize and link clients to community resources and ancillary staff as needed. Communication, partnership, and collaboration are crucial for effective, positive client outcomes.
The attributes of patient advocacy as defined by the NIH:
- Safeguarding: Track medical errors, and protecting patients from incompetency or misconduct of co-workers and other members of healthcare team.
- Apprising: Providing information about the patient’s diagnosis, treatment, and progonsis, suggesting alternatives of healthcare, and providing information about discharge program.
- Valuing: Maintaining self-control, enabling patients to make decisions freely, maintaining individualization and humanity, maintaining patient privacy, and acting in the patients’ values, culture, beliefs, and preferences.
- Mediating: Liaison between patients, families, and healthcare professionals, being patients’ voice, and communicate patient preferences and cultural values to members of the healthcare team.
- Championing social justice in the provision of healthcare: Confronting inappropriate policies or rules in the healthcare system, identifying and correcting inequalities in delivery of health services, and facilitating access to community health services and health resources.
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31109243/
RNPAS’s Mission: Empowering client’s and their families with informed consent, one healthcare decision at a time: Informed consent is the only consent.
RNPAS’s Vision: Client’s control their healthcare destiny.
RN Patient Advocate Service’s Promise: As your professional Advocate, RNPAS will be you and your loved-ones empathetic and passionate ally; we will be there to help educate, guide, and support you and your family while joining your healthcare journey.
RNPAS’s Approach: Problems + Solutions = Goals
Phone, In-Person (depending on logistics), or Video Conferencing Session Time Appointments Are Available.
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