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What does advocating look like in the workplace

Mary Bicknell, MSN, BSN, RN / June 12, 2025

What does advocating for a colleague look like? What do we need to do to adequately, and appropriately, advocate for a colleague? Is it our job to advocate for them, do they want us to do that? I believe those are all valid questions, and are important for us to consider, both from our own perspective and from the perspective of what this may feel like for them. Having said that, I have advocated for a colleague, many times, but I believe the most valuable times have been when I was their formal leader.

I have been a nurse for several decades and I have worked in very small hospitals, a 30-bed community hospital, to 350-bed trauma 1 centers. I have risen to a level of expertise at the bedside and was leading programs. I was the charge nurse, the one to reach out to when there was

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