The Nurse as Advocate Assignment 5
The Nurse as Advocate Assignment 5
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 5-page brief to answer the following questions. Be sure to
use APA guidelines for writing style, spelling and grammar, and
citation of sources.
Read 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
Answer the below 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?

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