Below are a few common concerns we address regularly. Please contact us today for a FREE 15-minute consultation at 973-832-3077 or email us at leslee@rnpas.com and we will be happy to answer any questions you may have. At RNPAS we’re here to help.
How can RNPAS help?
RNPAS works together with patients and their families to help them understand what all their options are and helps to educate them about what their rights are; this way, they are able to make the best informed consent decisions for themselves. RNPAS believes that Informed Consent is the ONLY consent. The healthcare system may be broken, but RNPAS is passionate about effectively partnering with patients while while joining their healthcare journey.
What is a Nurse Patient Advocate?
Nurse advocates are fierce supporters of patient’s rights and their Informed Consent decisions; they are able to partner with their clients and families to help educate, support, and guide them through difficult healthcare decisions. For more information on Nurse Patient Advocates Click Here.
What is Informed Consent?
Informed consent is a collaborative process intended on bringing patients and healthcare providers together to make decisions when more than one reasonable alternative exists. Nurse’s sign and bear witness that patients fully understand all of the risks and benefits before they sign the Informed Consent Form. For more information on Informed Consent Click Here.
How do I obtain RNPAS advocacy-consulting services; what happens next?
Schedule a free 15-minute consult by contacting RNPAS directly to see how we can help. Once we agree together that RNPAS is able to service your needs, RNPAS will send the Client Contract/Agreement to be signed, along with an invoice for a Retainer Fee. After the Retainer Fee is paid, the first Advocacy Session is then scheduled as an appointment on our Calendar. We will then discuss the TOP-3 GOALS and then devise Action Plans for each of the Goals and will work together to achieve your best possible outcome.
Does RNPAS make home visits?
RNPAS is able to make in-person visits, depending on logistics. Advocacy Session appointments are available either in-person, over the phone, or by video conferencing.
Your loved one lives out of state and you fear for their safety?
RNPAS can help facilitate linking your loved one to various community resources, home health agencies, and more. Call RNPAS to see how we are able to help ensure your loved one is safe at home.
Been feeling ‘blah’ or not feeling your best lately?
Notify your Primary Care Doctor about your symptoms first. Then, contact RNPAS to see how we can help review ideas for Preventative Care with the goal to help you remain safe at home and stay out of the hospital.
Contemplating Facility Placement for your loved one?
This is a very delicate, complicated and complex decision and RNPAS partners with the family and other interdisciplinary collaborative team members (ie: PCP, SW, Case Managers, etc.) to advocate for your loved ones safety and their rights. RNPAS will be there every step of the way, ensuring your loved one is comfortable, that all of their needs are met, and that you are in constant communication with them. Contact RNPAS today to see how they can help with this extremely difficult and challenging decision.
What are Advanced Directives?
In the event that you are not able to make medical decisions for yourself, an Advance Directive is a legal document that makes known your medical wishes and decisions about end-of-life care known ahead of time. There are two main elements in an advance directive—a Living Will and a durable Power of Attorney for health care.
What is a Living Will?
A Living Will is a document that specifies the specific types of treatments you would want (or don’t want) in the event that you are dying or permanently unconscious and are unable to make decisions for yourself.
What is a Durable Power of Attorney?
Also, know as POA, is the person who is able to legally speak on your behalf and who will honor your health wishes and decisions in the event that you are unable to make decisions for yourself.
What to do after you set up your Advance Directive?
You might want to make a card to carry in your wallet indicating that you have an advance directive and where it is kept. Give your doctor a copy for your medical records. Tell close family members and friends where you keep a copy. If you have to go to the hospital, give staff there a copy to include in your records.
Still have questions? Contact us and we’ll be happy to answer any questions you may have. At RNPAS we’re here to help.
