Description
1. Scenario
Your nurse executive wants the staff nurses to gain a better understanding of the types of nursing associations and the political advocacy they support. Each nurse manager has been asked to select a professional nursing association and political advocacy they support to research. You will need to research political advocacy from a professional nursing association of your choice and share your findings in a presentation to your staff.
Instructions
Part One – Selection of Political Advocacy
Visit a professional nursing association website to:
Locate the political advocacy statements.
Review the political advocacy statements posted,
Note the issues being discussed and whether they apply to all nurses or to a nursing specialty issue.
Select one political advocacy statement for the presentation.
Part Two – Presentation on Political Advocacy
Prepare a presentation and make a recording of your presentation that:
Identifies the professional nursing association and its constituents.
Examines the key elements of the political advocacy selected.
Summarizes concrete steps to advocate for this political advocacy as individual citizens and community partners.
Illustrates how your peers can support this political advocacy as future nursing professionals.
Provides stated ideas with professional language and attribution for credible sources with correct APA citation, spelling, and grammar in the presentation.
Presentation should be no longer than eight minutes and the file size (presentation with audio) no larger than 10 MB.
2. Scenario
Your nursing leader has asked you to provide her with information regarding the legislation on California’s nursing union negotiated staffing ratios. You will prepare a policy briefing document that details the process and outcome associated with this piece of legislation. Your nursing leader will use this briefing document to guide her decision on whether this is a good policy to support in your state.
Instructions
Prepare a policy briefing document that:
Part One – Process of Legislation
Explains the critical concern(s) that prompted this legislation, who proposed the issue, as well as who drafted and sponsored this legislation.
Describes how long the process took and the steps taken from the initial idea to legislation implementation as well as the critical elements of the legislation that was passed.
Part Two – Outcome of Legislation
Answers the following questions:
Does the research support that mandated ratios improved nurse turnover rates?
Does the research support that mandated ratios improved patient outcomes?
Discusses recommendations on whether your nursing leader should support working with other nurse leaders on similar legislation.
Examines at least two pros and two cons for your recommendation based on research.
Provides stated ideas with professional language and attribution for credible sources with correct APA citation, spelling, and grammar in the policy briefing document.
