QUESTION

• Explain any ethical dilemmas that could arise during your advocacy campaign, and how you would resolve them.
• Describe the ethics and lobbying laws that are applicable to your advocacy campaign.
• Evaluate the special ethical challenges that are unique to the population you are addressing.
• Provide a cohesive summary for your paper.

                                                      SAMPLE SOLUTION

Nursing advocacy and patient right protection has been engrossed as one of the most fundamental principles of nursing. Furthermore, nursing advocacy became the core principle that govern nursing practice in the United States since it was documented by the American Nurses Association (ANA) as provision three in its code of ethics for nursing practice (ANA, 2008). This paper seeks to elaborate effective ways of developing a successful health advocacy campaign for nurses by illustrating my own proposal and policy of patient protection. The paper, which is made up of three sections, develops a theme in patient protection by discussing the impact of certain patient paucities and elaborating ways in which I could advocate for a proposal against the paucity to become law. Lastly, the paper illustrates ethical dilemmas that could arise during the advocacy and illustrate ways of resolving the same.

Part 1: Access to Healthcare Services

In order to prevent and manage diseases, as well as promote positive health outcomes, it is imperative for patients to have unlimited access to healthcare services. Access to healthcare services, according to Gulliford and Morgan (2013), is the ability to both obtain and use healthcare services and quality treatment in order to obtain the best medical and health outcome. Furthermore, recent research has documented that health insurance is the best way for patients and individuals to fully access timely healthcare services (Knickman & Kovner, 2015). Therefore, this section of the paper illustrates the impact of poor healthcare services among several uninsured individuals in the US. Furthermore, this section illustrates a literature review of two advocacy campaigns that address the same issue, the attributes that made the campaigns effective, as well as a health advocacy campaign plan which develops a new policy regarding the problem and population in question.