{"id":10269,"date":"2018-05-23T10:12:04","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T08:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.efnweb.be\/?p=10269"},"modified":"2018-05-23T10:12:04","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T08:12:04","slug":"nurses-roles-are-key-to-support-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?p=10269","title":{"rendered":"Nurses roles are key to support patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the occasion of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.activecitizenship.net\/primo-piano\/254-xii-european-patients-rights-day-2018.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">XII European Patients\u2019 Rights Day<\/a>, the EFN is committed to support and advocate for strategies and policies that support patients and place patient rights at the centre of healthcare systems redesign, in order to maintain and improve high quality, safe and effective services.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Improving patients\u2019 rights is a fundamental priority that concerns all nurses who, through regular sustained direct patient contact, appropriate support, and health coaching, can make a significant contribution to <a href=\"https:\/\/efn.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/EFN-Position-Paper-Patient-Empowerment-Final-14-10-2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">supporting patient empowerment<\/a> and providing support to those needing care. These tasks are well acknowledged in the design of the nurse curricula, in compliance with Article 31 of <a href=\"http:\/\/eur-lex.europa.eu\/legal-content\/EN\/ALL\/?uri=celex%3A32013L0055\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Directive 2013\/55\/EU<\/a>, in which patient empowerment and support to individuals needing care are specifically mentioned.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Therefore, the EFN calls for a greater involvement of nurses in the co-design of healthcare policies to ensure those respond to frontline needs and support them in further supporting and empowering patients!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the occasion of the XII European Patients\u2019 Rights Day,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6865,"url":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?p=6865","url_meta":{"origin":10269,"position":0},"title":"International Nurses&#8217; Day 2015 &#8211; &#8220;Nurses: A Force for Patient\/Citizens Empowerment&#8221;","author":"efn efn","date":"May 11, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Thanks to the increasing focus on patient empowerment, political leaders become more aware of the vital role nurses play in empowering patients and citizens in the process of continuity of care. eHealth services start playing a crucial role in integrated care. 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