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Patient Advocacy: A Closer Look

Diversity Nursing

Nurse advocates are tasked with helping patients understand and navigate their healthcare journey, including answering questions, explaining medical care, discussing and explaining billing or insurance, and other healthcare-related topics. Nurses are often the first and last contact for patients in the healthcare setting.

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Research Nursing: A Comprehensive Overview

Diversity Nursing

Being a Research Nurse is a unique and vital role within the healthcare system. They are responsible for recruiting and screening eligible participants, obtaining informed consent, and ensuring strict adherence to the study protocol. Patient Care These Nurses also provide comprehensive care to participants in clinical trials.

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Psychedelic Breakthroughs: Key Considerations for Clinical Trials

Healthcare Law Insights blog

Informed Consent: Ongoing and Essential Respecting patient rights is central to any clinical trial. Essential to this is ensuring ongoing informed consent from participants. The principle of informed consent extends to the practice of therapeutic touch, a component particularly relevant to psychedelic-mediated therapy.

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The Legal Responsibilities of Nursing

Diversity Nursing

Informed Consent Informed Consent is a fundamental ethical and legal aspect of Nursing of which all Nurses must become familiar. Informed consent involves obtaining permission from the patient or their legal representative before any procedure, treatment, or intervention.

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The Language of Serious Illness: A Podcast with Sunita Puri, Bob Arnold, and Jacqueline Kruser

GeriPal

And I have gone through my not-so-long career, but it’s coming up on nine years now, seeing the way that we have talked about CPR in such problematic ways, in ways that really do not enable true informed consent. So I think consenting to a course of treatment involves that two-way conversation. Sunita: Oh, yeah.

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How Nurses Can Better Advocate for Their Patients

Caregiver Support Services

However, advocating for patients is challenging, especially with the increasing demands and complexities of healthcare. Nurses must communicate with patients, their families, and other healthcare professionals to ensure patients receive the best possible care. Effective communication allows nurses to advocate for their patients.

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5 tips to improve and better utilize your home care plans [Free tip sheet]

AlayaCare

Based on this discussion, we’ve developed a free tip sheet to help your home care organizations and healthcare providers work through improving your care plans. We’ve also compiled some tips to help get you started.

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