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The ANA has deemed 2020 as the Year of the Nurse. Advocacy in action is needed especially with the uncertainty with the global pandemic. Nurses must take action for policy change and to improve patient outcomes. Reflect upon this moment of time in a 5-7 page paper.
Answer the following prompts in separate sections:
Describe political activism in nursing as a form of advocacy
The role of the ANA and nursing organizations in policy change
2020: The Year of the Nurse; what does that mean to you?
Examine how politics at the national, state, and local level affects nursing policies every day. Provide specific examples of this.
Discuss how hard nurse activist have worked in the past 100 years to affect health care policy. Compare nurse activists to suffragettes from the early 20th century.
Make a list of the nurses who are serving in the Congress of the United States. Identify the two nurses who have been serving in the House of Representatives for 17 years or more and consider their careers.
Examine the ways that each nurse or nursing student can be involved in creating nursing policy, from being a registered voter to actively lobbying for a specific issue to running for office.
Of the three levels of political involvement, the least difficult for the individual nurse to maintain is being a registered voter and knowledgeably voting in every election. List some ways in which to maintain political knowledge and be able to vote responsibly.
APA formatting with at least 3 referencluves and use of citations is required.