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Rights-based advocacy in long-term care
— geriatric nursing and long-term care ombudsmen | | Author(s) | H Wayne Nelson, Priscilla D Allen, Donna Cox |
| Journal title | Clinical Gerontologist, vol 28, no 4, 2005 |
| Pages | pp 1-16 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Advocacy ; Complaints [services] ; Nursing homes ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | In the US, both long-term care (LTC) ombudsmen and nurses are committed to advocacy, but often find themselves at odds, due to fundamentally divergent orientations to patient care and advocacy issues within the nursing home setting. This paper compares these advocacy alignments, identifies areas of potential conflict, and provides grounds for cooperation and mutual support. Specifically, the authors argue that nursing advocacy - despite a theoretical bow to autonomy - is typically beneficent and can be limited by employment status, professional orientation and subordination by dominant physician and administrative authorities. Conversely, LTC ombudsmen are guided by the autonomy principle, and, by law, are free of any conflict of interest with the resident. The paper concludes with a discussion of common goals that should be adopted by care nurses and ombudsmen in order to improve mutual understanding and communication that is essential to building partnerships that effectively and creatively solve issues that emerge for resident physical and socio-emotional problems. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-061023001 A |
| Classmark | IQ: QLV: LHB: 7T |
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