Patient Scenario Implications for Nursing Advocacy Ms. Samol is a 38-year-old patient in the medical intensive care unit who is dying of AIDS-related complications. Since being diagnosed with AIDS, she has refused to inform her husband and family of her AIDS status. She even has What would you do if you were Ms. Samol's nurse? Talk with your classmates and experienced nurses about the ques- tions that follow. • If you elect to advocate for the Samols, what practical steps can you take to ensure better health outcomes? Are there any legal guidelines for what you can and cannot do? • What is reasonable to expect of a student nurse, a gradu- ate nurse, and an experienced nurse in this situation? • What advocacy skills are needed to effectively respond to this challenge? an advance directive, which forbids the disclosure of her diagnosis when she can no longer advocate for herself. Her husband and mother cannot understand why the doctors and nurses cannot treat her "pneumonia"-–the only diagnosis she gave them. The doctors and nurses caring for Ms. Samol believe that her husband has the right to know his wife's diagnosis so that he can make decisions in his own best interest about being tested, having their children tested, etc.
Patient Scenario Implications for Nursing Advocacy Ms. Samol is a 38-year-old patient in the medical intensive care unit who is dying of AIDS-related complications. Since being diagnosed with AIDS, she has refused to inform her husband and family of her AIDS status. She even has What would you do if you were Ms. Samol's nurse? Talk with your classmates and experienced nurses about the ques- tions that follow. • If you elect to advocate for the Samols, what practical steps can you take to ensure better health outcomes? Are there any legal guidelines for what you can and cannot do? • What is reasonable to expect of a student nurse, a gradu- ate nurse, and an experienced nurse in this situation? • What advocacy skills are needed to effectively respond to this challenge? an advance directive, which forbids the disclosure of her diagnosis when she can no longer advocate for herself. Her husband and mother cannot understand why the doctors and nurses cannot treat her "pneumonia"-–the only diagnosis she gave them. The doctors and nurses caring for Ms. Samol believe that her husband has the right to know his wife's diagnosis so that he can make decisions in his own best interest about being tested, having their children tested, etc.
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Implications for Nursing Advocacy
Ms. Samol is a 38-year-old patient in the medical intensive
care unit who is dying of AIDS-related complications. Since
being diagnosed with AIDS, she has refused to inform
her husband and family of her AIDS status. She even has
What would you do if you were Ms. Samol's nurse? Talk with
your classmates and experienced nurses about the ques-
tions that follow.
• If you elect to advocate for the Samols, what practical
steps can you take to ensure better health outcomes?
Are there any legal guidelines for what you can and
cannot do?
• What is reasonable to expect of a student nurse, a gradu-
ate nurse, and an experienced nurse in this situation?
• What advocacy skills are needed to effectively respond to
this challenge?
an advance directive, which forbids the disclosure of her
diagnosis when she can no longer advocate for herself. Her
husband and mother cannot understand why the doctors
and nurses cannot treat her "pneumonia"-–the only diagnosis
she gave them. The doctors and nurses caring for Ms. Samol
believe that her husband has the right to know his wife's
diagnosis so that he can make decisions in his own best
interest about being tested, having their children tested, etc.
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