powerpoint for Nursing_as_Advocates edited (2) with song

powerpoint for Nursing_as_Advocates edited (2) with song

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  The Nurse isthe patient Advocate Sharon Gauthier RN/BSN/MSN/CCM Patient Advocate forYou, LLC
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  Why Everyone Needsan advocate • Nurses are key to patient advocacy because: • Patient and Family • Develop relationship with patients and families. • Provide holistic assessment and care. • Skilled communicators understanding the patient’s health within in the context of their cultural and personal beliefs. • Role of the nurse is the educate patient to decrease. • Key player in interdisciplinary team • Speak Up • Do the right thing always! Patients need a nurse advocate, nurses are key
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  Current Health Careculture • Decreased staffing : acute and primary care • A nurse is a nurse is a nurse • Roles of unlicensed staff increased, as direct contact with patient decreasing • Complex Patients, multiple health care providers • Acute Care: Patients more complex, very ill, and decreased length of stay • Primary Care: Economic crunch of practices, decreased patient visit time, lack of nursing presence •
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  Nurses- what wedo best • NURSES are clinical experts in caring for patients with a myriad of diseases, conditions and symptoms • WE listen to their needs • WE have a sixth sense of what is wrong or what will go wrong • WE are flexible • WE love our job • WE can hold our urine for 15 hours!! WE ARETHE GLUE OF HEALTHCARE
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  What is advocacyand who needs us • Definitions • An RN Patient Advocate coordinates, collaborates and educates on the behalf of the patient and family • Assessing the need for advocacy • Those who lack knowledge • Those with little power • Those who need to make decisions • Those who receive inadequate care • Those who are unable to communicate for themselves
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  Advocacy Goals Broad Goalsand Outcomes of Advocacy • Ensure that clients, families and healthcare professionals are partners in care • Clients intentionally make educated decisions about the care they receive, that affect their lives • Ensure clients understand health issues and treatment options and implementation. • Support clients in choice for, or refusal of, treatment • Provide knowledge, understanding and suggestions for alternatives
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  Communicating with Health CareProfessionals • Demonstrate knowledge and tact • Include information about the client’s concerns, questions, and expectations • Call the appropriate physician • Encourage direct communication between the client and the appropriate health care providers
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  YOU are anadvocate • Change in our health care delivery system is an ongoing process.We are the nurses who need to continue to advocate for our patients. It’s our duty to them and their families.
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  References: American Nurses association http://aphablog.com/about-advoconnection/ ALLIANCEFOR PROFESSIONAL ADVOCATES http://aphablog.com/about-advoconnection/ http://www.patientadvocateforyou.com Contact information: Sharon Gauthier RN/BSN/MSN/CGM 30 tower lane Avon, Ct 06001 860-703-1575 Hartford-Glastonbury-Stamford ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 2014
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  Coming Soon Radio Show We All Wantto Change The World