Question

Identify advocacy strategies that you can use to create change in your current workplace.

Answer 1

There are several healthful driven advocacy strategies that can be incorporate in the working environment such as:

Skillful Problem solving: The main focus is on addressing the problems in need of solution. The first step in the process is to carefully identify the problem to addressed and identify the strategies and goal needed to address the problems.

Adequate Communication: Most advocacy initiatives involve bringing individuals and groups together to address an issue or concern. Advocates need to communicate clearly and concisely and to structure the message to fit both the situation and the intended audience.

Influence: To facilitate change or solve an issue, nurses must be able to influence others to action.

           Other advocacy strategies are creating organizational policies like nurse staffing. Nurse staffing can be easily influenced by the nurses participating in the nurse management council of the hospital. Empowering the nurses can help in the improvement of the environment in which the nurses work while enhancing delivery of quality health care. Additionally, at the place of work, nurses can be provided with decision support and ways of resolving conflicts at the point of delivering healthcare (Tomajan, 2012).

            Having conflict resolution as an advocacy strategy helps the nurses to identify and manage potential conflicts. It ensures nurses have the support of learning and practicing some of the specialized and important advocacy strategies. Patient advocacy is also another strategy fundamental to the nursing profession since patients depend largely on the nurses in ensuring they receive suitable healthcare. Nurses in their workplace could also embrace problem-solving as an advocacy strategy. Among others is a communication where they bring different groups together thus helping in addressing issues. Besides the above advocacy strategies, nurses could also engage in positive collaboration among themselves thus garner the support required to address issues

Reference: Tomajan, K., (January 31, 2012) "Advocating for Nurses and Nursing" OJIN: The Online      Journal of Issues in Nursing 17(1).