title: A pilot study of selected Japanese nurses' ideas on patient advocacy.
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.
authors.affiliation: Nagano College of Nursing, Komagane, Japan. ajdavis@itsa.ucsf.edu
authors.forename: Anne J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Davis
authors.forename: Emiko
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Konishi
authors.forename: Marie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tashiro
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel / Q000208:ethnology; D002016:Buddhism; D032903:Confucianism; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D028781:Ethical Relativism; D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D005181:Faculty, Nursing; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D007564:Japan; D009014:Morals; D024802:Nurse's Role; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D010344:Patient Advocacy / Q000941:ethics*; D010687:Philosophy, Nursing; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011209:Power, Psychological; D012945:Social Values; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires