Perceived interpersonal and institutional challenges to patient advocacy in clinical nursing practice: a qualitative study from Ghana / Interpersonelle und institutionelle Herausforderungen für die Rolle als Patientenfürsprecher/-in aus Sicht der Pflege: eine qualitative Studie aus Ghana

Abstract

Nurses often speak on patients’ behalf and safeguard their safety through their advocacy role. However, some challenges like the negative attitude of team members and lack of institutional support often hamper this role. These challenges have not been well studied in the Ghanaian context.

Keywords

• clinical nursing
• challenges
• institutional
• interpersonal
• patient advocacy
• qualitative research
• ghana
• klinische krankenpflege
• herausforderungen
• institutionelle
• interpersonelle
• patientenvertretung
• qualitative forschung
• ghana