Week 5 Project Formatting Instructions – Important
Read the following chapters from your course textbook:
Taking Action: Nurse, Educator, and Legislator: Journey to the Delaware Senate – Chapter 55
Taking Action: A Nurse in the Board Room Chapter 57
The Nurse as Advocate
Whether nurses are advocating for their patients, health care, and/or policies that improve people’s lives, the advocacy processes have commonalities that transcend the subject of their advocacy. There are also differences, although these differences may be more nuanced than obvious.
Tasks:
Write a 4-5-page brief to answer the following questions. A cover page is required. An introduction and conclusion are required.
Number and write each question; below the question write a paragraph or two to answer the question thoroughly. Clearly identify and discuss each part of the question. References are required.
Questions
Describe what you believe to be the drivers for each of the individuals? What factors led them to become advocates?
Discuss the challenges that each of them identified in their writings.
Analyze these drivers and challenges and compare them with your own experience to date as an advocate.
In what ways do you believe that you can expand your advocacy skills within the next five years?
Review the following chapters from your course textbook:
Taking Action: Nurse, Educator, and Legislator: My Journey to the Delaware Senate
Taking Action: A Nurse in the Board Room
Respond to the following questions based on your readings:
Describe what you believe to be the drivers for each of the individual advocates.
What factors led the individuals to become advocates?
Discuss the challenges that each of the individuals identified in their writings.
Analyze these drivers and challenges and compare them with your own experience to date as an advocate.
In what ways do you believe you can expand your advocacy skills within the next five years?