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The nurse as advocate for vulnerable persons
Author(s) -
Archer Laurel
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
journal of advanced nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.948
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1365-2648
pISSN - 0309-2402
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2648.1986.tb01246.x
Subject(s) - nursing , patient advocacy , vulnerability (computing) , independence (probability theory) , humanity , policy advocacy , politics , political science , medicine , public relations , medline , law , statistics , computer security , mathematics , computer science
This paper discusses the following issues. (1) Advocacy: in planning and implementing nursing care; in primary care; in terminal care; in nursing research; and in health promotion/disease prevention. (2) That which comprises a vulnerable population. (3) Continuum of vulnerability: the potentially vulnerable; the circumstantially vulnerable; the temporarily vulnerable; the episodically vulnerable; the permanently vulnerable; and the inevitably vulnerable. (4) Damaging one's humanity and self‐image: loss of independence; barriers to the ability to make choices; the absences and presence of that which is needed; and the loss of individuality. (5) Types of advocacy: human advocacy; animal advocacy; political advocacy; moral‐ethical advocacy; legal advocacy; spiritual advocacy; and individual system advocacy. (6) Advocacy concommitants: risk; heat; and prevention.