A pilot study of selected Japanese nurses' ideas on patient advocacy.

Full Abstract

This pilot study had two purposes:
(1) to review recent Japanese nursing literature nursing advocacy; and (2) to obtain data from nurses on advocacy. For the second purpose, 24 nurses at a nursing college in Japan responded to a questionnaire. The concept of advocacy, taken from the West, has become an ethical ideal for Japanese nurses but one that they do not always understand, or, if they do, they find it difficult to fulfil. They cite nursing leadership support as necessary to enacting this role. Discussion on meaning of and the rationale for advocacy in a society where goodness or badness is relative to social situations and its impact may reveal two parallel but overlapping views of morality. Such a situation would not only influence notions of advocacy but also possibly render them more complex.

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Author information

Author/s: Davis, Anne J (AJ); Konishi, Emiko (E); Tashiro, Marie (M);

Affiliation: Nagano College of Nursing, Komagane, Japan. ajdavis(-atsign-)itsa.ucsf.edu

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article

Journal: Nursing ethics (Nurs Ethics), published in England. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2003-Jul; vol 10 (issue 4) : pp 404-13

Dates: Created 2003/07/23; Completed 2003/09/22; Revised 2004/11/17;

PMID: 12875537, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 12/26/2008)

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MeSH headings (categories)

This article was linked to the MESH Headings shown below.

Adult
Attitude of Health Personnel - ethnology
Buddhism
Confucianism
Cultural Characteristics
Ethical Relativism
Ethics, Nursing
Faculty, Nursing
Female
Humans
Interprofessional Relations

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