Executive Summary RN Patient Advocates Curriculum Marketing Outreach

RN Patient Advocates, PLLC

Executive Summary:

The field of Patient Advocacy is rapidly expanding.  Why? 

371,000 Americans died and 424,000 were permanently disabled because of misdiagnoses. (2023 the Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute Center for Diagnostic Excellence and the Risk Management Foundation of the Harvard Medical Institution).  The National Academy of Medicine published a national study on Misdiagnosis (2015) demonstrating 12 million misdiagnoses annually - >$750 billion. 

Deaths due to pharmaceuticals –  NIH reports that more than 106,000 persons in the U.S. died from drug-involved overdose in 2021, including illicit drugs and prescription opioids. A properly educated Patient Advocate can prevent such errors utilizing the Medication Safety Program © and the RN Patient Advocacy Process©.  

Patient Advocates are needed more than ever – Advocates well versed in all aspects of management of healthcare today.

Advocates need to be clinically adept and up to date with traditional medicine and the more advanced models of Integrative Medicine and Functional Medicine.

Advocates must also be accomplished communicators and teachers as well as managers of the Change Process.

Advocates must be skilled in working professionally with healthcare providers of all kinds.

Despite having the most expensive health care system, the United States ranks last overall compared with six other industrialized countries—Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom—on measures of quality, efficiency, access to care, equity, and the ability to lead long, healthy, and productive lives, according to a new Commonwealth Fund report.

The healthcare system has become an increasingly difficult maze for people.  Health literacy is exceptionally low – nearly 9 out of 10 adults are functionally health illiterate (Center for Health Care Strategies). “Despite being the only constant in their own care, patients have been the one missing player in system-level healthcare decision- making for most of the modern healthcare system.” — Suzanne Schrandt, JD. 

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RN Patient Advocates, PLLC, has developed a process that directly addresses this need.

• RN Patient Advocates, PLLC, incorporated in 2003, has developed the most sophisticated Patient Advocacy Learning Intensive in the US to prepare qualified clinical RNs to become successful independent Patient Advocates.  
• This document will introduce you to the 7-year development of the RN Patient Advocacy Process © as well as the extensive range of topics covered in the total Curriculum which evolved into the 8 months Learning Intensive. The development of this RN Patient Advocate Learning Intensive evolved within a population of nursing leaders both in academia – the University of Arizona College of Nursing, Dr. Joan Shaver (Dean) - and also other leaders in many fields of professional clinical practice.  
• The RN Patient Advocacy Process ©, has not been equaled to this day and is copyrighted at the Library of Congress.  Its range includes the Advocacy Plan of Action steps, both traditional and advanced medical models, management of the Change Process and development of elements underlying the therapeutic relationship between the Advocate and the Client/Family. 
• The entire 22 curriculum modules of the RNPA Learning Intensive, including the RNPA Patient Advocacy Process, all are copyrighted at the Library of Congress.  The Purchase Agreement will ensure that your organization owns all that material/copyrights. 
• The RN Patient Advocacy Learning Intensive was endorsed 2010-2022 by the American Holistic Nurses Assn. as well as by the University of Arizona College of Nursing 2009 – 2019
• As a leader in this expanding field, you can enhance your position further.  I would highly recommend that your organization consider the purchase of the wide-ranging RN Patient Advocacy Learning Intensive Curriculum.  This has been proven to be efficacious and is practiced by independent RN Patient Advocates across has the nation. 
• Become the leader in the field of Patient Advocacy Education.  The purchase of the RN Patient Advocacy Learning Intensive Curriculum will ensure that leadership position for your organization.

Table of Contents:

1. Development of RN Patient Advocacy Process©
2. Development of RN Patient Advocacy Model.
3. Development of MEDiKEY© to address the 12 million misdiagnoses each year in the US following the needs as explained by the National Academy of Medicine.
4. Extensive Reading list to prepare RN Patient Advocate Learning Intensive students.
5. Outline of all 22 RN Patient Advocacy Learning Intensive Modules
6. Development of additional Advanced Science modules:  Systems Biology, Human Microbiome, Inflammation -currently being taught nationally
7. Range of RN Patient Advocacy Services
8. Development of Medication Safety Program © to address the 100,000+ deaths and 1.2 million poor outcomes of Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs) in the US
9. Development of Healthy Body Herald…knowledge is power to address the very low level of health literacy in the US
10. URLs – wide range with GoDaddy to protect the market positioning; www.patientadvocates.com  with Tierra.net - $8, 100 
11. About Karen Mercereau, RN, iRNPA
12. Testimonials
13. Pricing
14. Marketing Details