Teaching adolescents self-advocacy skills.
The changing face of health care is requiring all consumers to be more responsible for their own care. At the same time, opportunities to lay the foundations for self-advocacy with adolescents are becoming more limited. Pediatric nurses are in an ideal position to help adolescents develop skills in self-advocacy that they will need throughout their lives.
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Johns Hopkins University, School of Nursing, Baltimore, MD, USA.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D010371:Pediatric Nursing / Q000379:methods; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D012648:Self Care