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Advocacy and Nursing Code of Ethics
My thought on nurses’ advocacy role is that it is an essential aspect of nursing in promoting the community’s well-being. Through the advocacy role, it is possible to lessen the health disparities and ensure that health consumers receive comfort and dignity regardless of social status. Furthermore, advocacy is crucial and occurs in any setting where there are nurses and consumers of health. This is the individual level of advocacy. Nurses should not limit their advocacy to individual levels. Still, they should be proactive in the role of advocacy to the policy level and championing policies that will be pivotal in bringing better healthcare services to the people. Because of the evolving society, including the culture, it is vital for nurses to be proactive in the advocacy role so that the community’s health outcomes are not affected by the changes being witnessed.
Nurses can discharge the role of advocacy by being the voice for the patients. They can be able to advocate for the right procedures that result in the best outcomes for patients. They can also guarantee the patients’ safety when receiving treatment in the healthcare facilities and ensure that the safety is not compromised when they leave the healthcare facility by following up. Nurses can also educate the patients, protect their rights and formulate and support policies that are critical in advancing the health of the patients.
In health promotion, some of the ethical issues that nurses might face include respect for autonomy, where nurses may be tempted to make determinations for the patients by overriding their independence. Sometimes, in health promotion, nurses might be compromised to abandon the course that results in patients’ good and follow personal interests. In other cases, nurses may be unfair in the promotion process and follow competing demands that propagate injustice.