title: Advocacy in perioperative nursing practice.
abstract: Advocacy describes the act of pleading for, supporting, and active espousal. It implies taking action to achieve a goal on behalf of oneself or another. In nursing, the patient's wishes often serve as the impetus for advocacy. Perioperative nurses function as advocates and accept responsibility to safe-guard the rights of surgical patients. This article describes historical aspects of and conceptual problems in nursing advocacy, and it presents case studies that demonstrate advocacy by the perioperative nurse.
authors.affiliation: Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital, Milwaukee, USA.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Schroeter
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D005260:Female; D006676:History of Nursing; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D010344:Patient Advocacy / Q000266:history; D013527:Perioperative Nursing / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D014481:United States