Distinguish between 'advocating for an older adult client for whom you are caring and 'advocacy' on behalf of a policy or issue you intend to influence at the local (e.g., hospital) or governmental level (e.g., county, state).  Provide an example for each.  You can use the same example applied in different scenarios (as in moving an issue from the patient / individual level to a collective level thus affecting more patients).

Advocating for an older client simply means being their for the client to help protect his/her rights and even assist him/her in making some informed decisions by first educating the client on what he/she needs to know. an example would be providing him/her with explanation on the difficult terms about medication when the doctor is talking to them. By being there and help patients make informed decisions or even protect their safety since they are old and are unable to do some things on their own is providing advocacy to them.

Advocacy for a policy or an issue that would influence many is simply like fighting for the rights of the patients and nurses in general. Airing out issues that affect the performance of nurses towards providing quality care would simply mean that a policy has to be change in favor of them to assist them promote better healthcare services to all. An example is, when a nurse needs better conditions or equipments that would protect them and patients against infectious diseases from other patients.

Advocacy in general means fighting for the rights of an individual whether directly or indirectly thereby protecting them from any harm that may result from a poor service or behavior of others withing the hospital fraternity.

Advocating for a patient is scaled down to an individual while advocating for a policy would basically affect the whole organization