The content of advocacy in procedural pain care – patients’ and nurses’ perspectives

Abstract

Advocacy is an integral part of the nursing care process. It is important that this key ethical aspect of professional nursing is discussed in nursing education and systematically applied in nursing practice through on-the-job training, feedback and collaboration.

Individual and organisational factors influencing registered nurses’ attitudes towards patient advocacy in Swedish community health care of elders

“…Two areas of nursing competence, performing the nursing care process and supervision of work and cooperation, influenced attitudes towards patient advocacy positively, which is consistent with earlier research where nursing competence is recurrently described as an influencing factor on patient advocacy in several countries . When Vaartio et al.…”

Nursing Advocacy in Procedural Pain Care

“…Six sum variables concerning the implementation of advocacy acts were formed on the basis of the theoretical structure obtained in earlier stages of this research: analysing patients' pain care preferences, analysing patients' self-determination preferences, counselling patients about pain care, counselling others involved in patients' pain care and self-determination preferences, responding to patients' pain care preferences, and responding to patients' self-determination preferences. 21,33,51 In the statistical analysis of items concerning the implementation of advocacy, response option 0 (Don't know) was excluded. The values of the sum variables thus range from 1 (No need), or 2 (Was not implemented) to 3 (Yes, has been implemented).…”

Children’s experiences of procedural pain management in conjunction with trauma wound dressings

“…This includes the children receiving support from their parents (Power et al. 2007) and the children’s expressions being interpreted (Vaartio et al. 2008).…”