Experts: Nurses should be involved in advocacy
Experts are urging nurses to increase their awareness and be more involved in state and federal legislation that could affect their practice and profession. Nurses should ensure they are "the most informed consumers and most informed voters," says Rose Gonzalez of the ANA. Nurse.com (1/24)
Experts are urging nurses to increase their awareness and be more involved in state and federal legislation that could affect their practice and profession. Nurses should ensure they are "the most informed consumers and most informed voters," says Rose Gonzalez of the ANA. Nurse.com (1/24)
(This is just a piece of the article but it just confirms what I have tried to encourage in my readers and coworkers...)
It seems a nurse’s work is never done. And neither is the work of those who lobby on behalf of nurses.
Every two years when a fresh U.S. Congress convenes in Washington, D.C., advocacy begins anew. Bills from the previous Congress are dead. Some sponsors of that legislation may have been voted out of office, or have retired. Bills need to be reintroduced and often need new sponsors.
“The life of a bill is about two years, and if that bill doesn’t meet success, isn’t voted on and signed into law, then you start at square one with the new Congress, hoping you’ve maintained your sponsors and trying to re-energize those sponsors,” says Rose Gonzalez, RN, MPS, director of government affairs for the American Nurses Association.
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