Advocacy: A Concept Analysis
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Advocacy for patients is seen as a necessary function of nursing; nonetheless, being selfadvocates of nursing has not. The American Nurses Association Code of Ethics for Nurses (2001) states: “The nurse owes the same duty to self as to others...” Advocacy is recognized as essential in numerous fields and presents an intricate concept. The intent of this paper is to use the Walker and Advant (2005) method of concept analysis to clarify advocacy’s contextual meaning and to define advocacy’s attributes towards furthering the profession of nursing and to maximize the advocacy for nurse’s effort.
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تاریخ انتشار 2012