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Advocacy and the Professional

Advocacy and the Professional JACCH PAGE 53 Advocacy and the*-.Prof essiona I by R.J. MacLeod Frustration and a sense of helplessness to that may lead to success. Caring about the issue matters tremendously, but without the practical effect needed change often characterize the health care professional. We can fill our skills, it is rarely enough. professional role well but when we must The Process of Advocacy influence policy and program development, we often find we lack the skills. 1. Identify the issue(s). This often requires We have the tools to help people with health clarification of your own thinking. It means problems, as our training has equipped us for establishing priorities and focusing your ener- those familiar tasks, routines, and rituals that gies. It means keeping your battles separate. are a part of the helping process. Increasingly, 2. Identify the goal to be achieved. It is we find that if the necessary kinds of services important to have a clearly set out objective. As and programs are to be established, we must well as identifying the problem, you want to become effective advocates as well. It is at this propose an effective, well-considered solution. point that our conventional training fails us. 3. Collaborate http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of the Association for the Care of Children in Hospitals Taylor & Francis

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Advocacy and the Professional

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JACCH PAGE 53 Advocacy and the*-.Prof essiona I by R.J. MacLeod Frustration and a sense of helplessness to that may lead to success. Caring about the issue matters tremendously, but without the practical effect needed change often characterize the health care professional. We can fill our skills, it is rarely enough. professional role well but when we must The Process of Advocacy influence policy and program development, we often find we lack the skills. 1. Identify the issue(s). This often...
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JACCH PAGE 53 Advocacy and the*-.Prof essiona I by R.J. MacLeod Frustration and a sense of helplessness to that may lead to success. Caring about the issue matters tremendously, but without the practical effect needed change often characterize the health care professional. We can fill our skills, it is rarely enough. professional role well but when we must The Process of Advocacy influence policy and program development, we often find we lack the skills. 1. Identify the issue(s). This often requires We have the tools to help people with health clarification of your own thinking. It means problems, as our training has equipped us for establishing priorities and focusing your ener- those familiar tasks, routines, and rituals that gies. It means keeping your battles separate. are a part of the helping process. Increasingly, 2. Identify the goal to be achieved. It is we find that if the necessary kinds of services important to have a clearly set out objective. As and programs are to be established, we must well as identifying the problem, you want to become effective advocates as well. It is at this propose an effective, well-considered solution. point that our conventional training fails us. 3. Collaborate

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Journal of the Association for the Care of Children in Hospitals – Taylor & Francis

Published: Jan 1, 1980

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