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2. Patient advocacy - Wikipedia

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   [24]: 190 Gadow and Curtis argue that the role of patient advocacy in nursing is to facilitate a patient's informed consent through decision-making, but in mental health nursing there is a conflict between the patient's right to autonomy and nurses' legal and professional duty to protect the patient and the community from harm, since patients ...

3. Nursing - Wikipedia

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   Nursing A nurse checks a patient's blood pressure. Occupation Activity sectors Nursing Description Competencies Caring for general and specialized well-being of patients Education required Qualifications in terms of statutory regulations according to national, state, or provincial legislation in each country Fields of employment Hospital Clinic Laboratory Research Education Home care Related ...

4. American Nurses Association - Wikipedia

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   The American Nurses Association (ANA) is a 501(c)(6) professional organization to advance and protect the profession of nursing. It started in 1896 as the Nurses Associated Alumnae and was renamed the American Nurses Association in 1911. [3] It is based in Silver Spring, Maryland [4] and Jennifer Mensik Kennedy [2] is the current president.

5. California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing ...

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   CNA was the first nurses union in the U.S. to win collective bargaining contracts for nurses when Shirley Carew Titus [7] advocated for agreements with the East Bay Hospital Conference for minimum salaries, time-and-a-half pay for overtime, shift differentials for night and weekend work, a 40-hour work week, paid holidays, vacations, and sick ...

6. Health advocacy - Wikipedia

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   They were the Progressive era "new women" of Hull House and the Children's Bureau, [12] the American Association for Labor Legislation [13] leaders of the movement in 1919 for national health insurance, the nurses who worked with Lillian Wald to advocate for indigent health care through Visiting Nurse Services [14] (1893), or with the Maternity ...

7. Nurse practitioner - Wikipedia

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   A nurse practitioner (NP) is an advanced practice registered nurse and a type of mid-level practitioner. [1] [2] NPs are trained to assess patient needs, order and interpret diagnostic and laboratory tests, diagnose disease, prescribe medications and formulate treatment plans.

8. Clinical nurse specialist - Wikipedia

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   A clinical nurse specialist (CNS) is an advanced practice nurse who can provide advice related to specific conditions or treatment pathways.According to the International Council of Nurses (ICN), an Advanced Practice Nurse is a registered nurse who has acquired the expert knowledge base, complex decision-making skills and clinical competencies for expanded practice, the characteristics of ...

9. Registered nurse - Wikipedia

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   A registered nurse (RN) is a nurse who has graduated or successfully passed a nursing program from a recognized nursing school and met the requirements outlined by a country, state, province or similar government-authorized licensing body to obtain a nursing license.