Advocacy Strategies used to Create Change in a Current Workplace

Advocacy Strategies used to Create Change in a Current Workplace
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Advocacy Strategies used to Create Change in a Current Workplace
Advocacy is a dynamic support of thoughts and ideas or causes expressed through planning, strategies and methods that will influence or manipulate the opinions and decisions of people in the hospital working environment (Beal, 2012). The main objective of advocacy is creating or changing of policies, laws, regulation and distribution of resources equally.
Every person working in the health and medical environment can make a positive impact on their profession all the way through habitual support for their profession. First-time changes in the healthcare system are impacting care in all the practice setting (Jansson, 2011). The transformations include uncertainties in the direction of healthcare reforms, financial pressures, mandates and authorizations from the regulatory agencies to improve the safety and quality of the health of patients in hospitals. According to Jansson (2011), there are also looming personnel shortages together with the changes in patient populations. These changes can challenge the allocation of resources; de...