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1) Which position best describes your role in health care facility? a) Registered nurse b) LPN c) Nurse Administrator d)Allied health personnel 2) How old are you? a) 18-25yrs b) 26-35 yrs, c) 36- 45 yrs, d) 46-55 yrs e) over 55yrs 3) What is your gender? a) Male b) Female 4) How long ago did you graduate from nursing school? a) 1-10 yrs b) 11-20 yrs, c) 21- 30 yrs, d) 31-40 yrs e) over 40 yrs 5) How long have you worked in this facility? a) Less Than 1 year, b) 1-5 yrs, c) 5- 10 years, d) More than 10 years 6) What is your highest level of education? a) Masters b) Bachelors c) Associate d) Advanced Practice 7) What is your area of practice? a) ICU b) ER c) O.R d) Medical/surgical e) L&D f)NICU g)Pediatrics h)long term care None of these 8) What is nurse advocacy? a) A way to avoid litigation b)supporting the needs and wishes of the patient c) one more task nurses have to do 9) Do you feel that the history of nursing has helped advance advocacy? a) Yes b) No 10) How do you act as you patients’ advocate? a) Supporting their choices, b) being the patient’s voice c) involving the patient in their care plan d) Educating the patient on their health e) All the above 11) A nurse’s educational background affects their level of advocacy? a) Strongly agree, b) Agree, c) Disagree, d) Strongly disagree 12) A positive correlation exists between a higher educational degree and willingness to advocate? a) Strongly agree, b) Agree, c) Disagree, d) Strongly disagree 13) A nurse’s experience helps promote their assertiveness involving advocacy? a) Strongly agree, b) Agree, c) Disagree, d) Strongly disagree 14) Nursing schools promote advocacy as much as the nursing field does? a) Strongly agree, b) Agree, c) Disagree, d) Strongly disagree 15) What are some of the barriers that affect nursing advocacy? a) educational level, b) risks involved, c) loyalty to colleagues, d) the work environment e)fear d)inexperience 16) Nurse advocacy affects the quality of patient care in a positive way? a) Strongly agree, b) Agree, c) Disagree, d) Strongly disagree 17) Positive consequences of nursing advocacy outweigh the negative consequences? a) Strongly agree, b) Agree, c) Disagree, d) Strongly disagree 18) The nurse’s role as an employee of an institution is complementary to his/her role as an advocate? a) Strongly agree, b) Agree, c) Disagree, d) Strongly disagree 19) The nurses’ role remains subservient to the medical profession? a) Strongly agree, b) Agree, c) Disagree, d) Strongly disagree 20) What are the steps taken by your organization for the implementation of nursing advocacy? a) Conducting training and education programs, b) Preceptorship, c) Emphasize the mission and values d) Don’t Know 21) Do you implement advocacy in clinical practice? a) Yes, b) No, c) Sometimes, d) Don’t know 22) How have you been exposed to patient advocacy? a) Journal articles, b) nursing school, c) higher education, d) observation of others e) experience 23) What is your attitude towards nursing advocacy? a) Nursing advocacy is the key to exceptional patient care, b) I have no time to advocate for each individual patient and perform the required tasks, c) Advocacy is a waste of time, you get sued either way ,d) I am ethically and morally responsible to do that which is in the best interest of the patient 24) How often do you advocate for your patients? a) Always, b) Sometimes, c)depending upon the situation, d) Never 25) Which factors can help in overcoming the barriers in nursing advocacy? a) Adequate training and education, b) Better nurse-doctor relationships c) Encouragement from the management, d) Incentives for the nurse advocates e) All the above 26) Do you think effective nurse advocacy ultimately help improve patient care and the nursing profession? a) Absolutely yes, b) May be, c) Never, d) Don’t know. 27) Do you think the expanding roles of nurses will require them to become more involved in patient advocacy? a) Absolutely yes, b) May be, c) Never, d) Don’t know

13 years experience, Hospital, Insurance Company, Clinical Instructor. Now working in MD full time for 35.00/hr with full benefits.

Love your response, I completely agree!

I completely agree that you need to be completely sure that she has done this, if its not true it could destroy her career. However, I completely disagree with the above posts that say its none of your business. If she has the nerve to fake her credentials, what else is she falsifying?

Maybe you could do some prn work at a hospital just to see if its something you would like to do? I have done that a few times in my past when I just wanted to sample what else was out there.

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Hi everyone, I have been reading the posts on here for several years, however, this is my first time posting. I am just really lost with how to handle this situation. I have been an RN for 11 years and have worked in a variety of areas, my most recent job was a case manager at an insurance company which I left to go to work for a hyperbaric oxygen center, this is where the issue comes in. I was hired at the hyperbaric center to be a case manager there also, do the insurance verification stuff, coordinate the patient's care, ect ect. The center is very small, only 2 chambers, but it was close to my house and it seemed like a new interesting area to work. So I started work and the weirdness began. The first day, I was given some charts of patient's that were currently being treated at the center for a variety of "unusual" things that aren't usually covered by insurance, things like strokes, cerebral palsy, autism, ect ect.....I was told to go through the charts and see if I could "find" anything in them that would be covered under their insurance plan. Ummmm, first red flag. Needless to say, I didn't "find" anything in the charts. Fast forward a couple of days and I was having a discussion with the doctor who runs the place and had been doing hyperbaric medicine for over a decade, or so she said......Come to find out, she wasn't an MD, but rather had a phD in early childhood, which after I looked, she earned the phD at a nonaccredited online university.....HUGE red flag...... I spent the next couple of days just going through the charts, looking at information and digging around where I really wasn't supposed to be......The amount of insurance stuff that was questionable/fraudulent would blow your mind. The "dr" was writing prescriptions for the oxygen administration in the chambers, her prescriptions were photo copied off of some online website, she signed everything as an MD and her patient's all thought that she was an MD as well. I left after those few days, it wasn't worth it to me to, my license means much more to me then that crazy job, but I find myself really disturbed at the whole situation. I feel really bad for all of those patients, and I feel bad for the other brand new nurses that were hired to run the actual chambers......I don't think they have a clue about the legalities of the whole place. Sorry, that was so long, here is my question, who would I contact and how would I go about reporting this place? I tried to look at the insurance commisioner for my state, but it was really difficult to navigate that site and nothing really applied to this situation. I know that you can report medical doctors to the medical board, but this is weird because she isn't a medical doctor, and I have no idea how to persue this further. I Any advice would be appreciated, sorry this is so long, I'm just really baffled with the weirdness of the situation.