NR 554 Week 6 DQ (with Peer Response): Nurse Advocate Power
Nursing leaders are under pressure to share their professional expertise. What is your obligation as a professional nurse to advocate for healthcare policy issues? …. the influences that impact nursing advocacy in the healthcare policy ...
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Running head: NURSE ADVOCATE POWER 1
Nurse Advocate Power
Chamberlain College of Nursing
NR554: Nurse Leader in Healthcare Policy
April 2018
, NURSE ADVOCATE POWER 2
Nursing leaders are under pressure to share their professional expertise.
What is your obligation as a professional nurse to advocate for healthcare
policy issues? What are the influences that impact nursing advocacy in the
healthcare policy realm? What skills should you gain to successfully
advocate for change?
Week 6: Nurse Advocate Power
The American Nurses Association (ANA) believes advocacy is the heart and soul of
nursing practice (American Nurses Association, n.d.). Professional nurses can advocate for
patients and healthcare policy issues at state and federal legislative levels by sharing their
patient-care experiences with policymakers. For example, I meet with Nick Ciofani, the
District Director for Congressman David Joyce, to advocate for advocate for budget-neutral
solutions including refocused social awareness campaigns, mental health treatment outreach
initiatives,
retargeted approaches to public employment services for sufferers of mental illness, youth
mental health education, and the presence of child psychologists at public schools to both
provide initial treatment for students who experience mental illnesses and act as a liaison
between students, guardians, teachers, and external mental health resources. During this meeting,
I shared my personal and professional experiences with those suffering from mental health
illness. It is the moral and professional obligation of nursing professionals to be engaged in
legislation that impacts their patients. When nurses influence the politics that improve the
delivery of healthcare, they are ultimately advocating for their patients.
Nurses recognize the importance of policy-making in the health sector and their influence
on this process and on positive patients’ outcomes. Nursing professionals aim to provide safe,
effective and compassionate care to patients and their families. Patient safety and satisfaction,
increased quality of care, positive patient outcomes, access to services, and health disparities
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