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Patient advocacy--an essential part of quality nursing care
1Vanersborg College of Health and Caring Sciences, Department of Advanced Nursing Education, Göteborg University, Sweden.
International Nursing Review
|September 1, 1996
Abstract:
In Sweden, patient advocacy has been the domain of "patient ombudsmen" employed exclusively for handling patient complaints. We were the first nurse researchers in Sweden to address the issue of patient advocacy as a part of nursing practice in three different research projects, based on narratives by nurses.