Nursing Student Needs Help...please?

HI everyone... I'm writing a paper on advocacy and I was wondering if I could get some of your opinions....

"How do you, as an RN, teach a patient how to advocate for themselves?"

Any stories or examples are greatly appreciated and will be of tremendous help!!!

Thank you VERY much in advance!!!

[iliel]

The person to ask is SandySummers. I just did a presentaion and she helped me out soooo much! She's on the BB and she runs the Center for Nursing Advocacy

http://WWW.nursingadvocacy.org

Hopefully she and the others here can give you some good answers

[Janwa]

THANK YOU SOOO MUCH!!!

[iliel]

No prob, I hope it helps

[purplemania, BSN, RN]

Ask yourself: what does it take for you to help yourself? Resource person, internet info, financial motivation---whatever. Then guide your pt. to those things. Mostly people need hope and your caring attitude.