Concept Analysis of Patients’ Advocacy: The Nursing Perspective

Abstract

Patient advocacy is one of the concept that is integral to the philosophy of nursing. It’s an obligation that is expected to be fulfilled by nurses in the course of discharging their professional duties. Some patients’ inability to make suitable choices,defend their rights and lack patients of adequate knowledge to be able to make informed decision about their medical intervention especially in developing countries has increase the need for patient’s advocacy.  There is evidence of lack of wide implementation of this concept by nurses. This is because of ambiguity associated to the meaning and understanding of this concept. The critical analysis is adopted as approach to clarify concept of patient’s advocacy to enhance wider implementation in nursing practice.