Nursing advocacy has been implemented since the bedside. As I have learned to exercise my best nursing efforts to help patients achieve best care outcomes, I prepare myself to further expand advocacy efforts to reach and benefit the community, the state, and eventually the nation. It is essential that as a nurse we deploy ourselves to the political arena in order to influence amendments and reforms in the nursing field. Because of political nurse advocacy efforts, many provisions were adopted in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Those provisions addressed Primary Nursing Workforce needs, Nursing Education, Advanced Nursing Education, Nursing Student Loan Programs, Nurse Faculty Loan Programs, as well as Advanced Practice Registered Nurse issues (ANA, n.d.).
I am passionate about any means and strategies that aim to enrich nurses’ knowledge and skills as well as alleviate the nursing shortage. I strongly believe that solving the nursing shortage starts at the academic setting and transitions to the work setting. On the one hand, nurses are in demand. On the other hand, healthcare organizations make every effort to hire them via job fairs, hiring incentives, and bonuses. Nevertheless, these vivacious efforts cease once nurses join an organization and later discover how strenuous their workload is. Consequently, my political advocacy effort would aim at tackling the nursing shortage that oppresses the current nursing population. Furthermore, I would like to propose an adjustment in the nursing undergraduate curriculum to address advanced knowledge of advocacy, leadership, as well as care delivery models that are congruent to critical thinking and advanced decision making skills.
Reference
American Nurses Association (n.d.). Health Care Reform and the APRN. Retrieved from http://www.nursingworld.org/EspeciallyForYou/AdvancedPracticeNurses/Health-Care-Reform-and-the-APRN.
I am passionate about any means and strategies that aim to enrich nurses’ knowledge and skills as well as alleviate the nursing shortage. I strongly believe that solving the nursing shortage starts at the academic setting and transitions to the work setting. On the one hand, nurses are in demand. On the other hand, healthcare organizations make every effort to hire them via job fairs, hiring incentives, and bonuses. Nevertheless, these vivacious efforts cease once nurses join an organization and later discover how strenuous their workload is. Consequently, my political advocacy effort would aim at tackling the nursing shortage that oppresses the current nursing population. Furthermore, I would like to propose an adjustment in the nursing undergraduate curriculum to address advanced knowledge of advocacy, leadership, as well as care delivery models that are congruent to critical thinking and advanced decision making skills.
Reference
American Nurses Association (n.d.). Health Care Reform and the APRN. Retrieved from http://www.nursingworld.org/EspeciallyForYou/AdvancedPracticeNurses/Health-Care-Reform-and-the-APRN.