Positive Social Change and the DNP-Prepared Nurse
Post an explanation of how you anticipate enacting personal and professional commitment for advocacy to positively impact your patients, communities, and the profession. Be specific. Then, explain how your role as a DNP-prepared nurse contributes to advocacy for positive social change.
The client focus is psychiatric patients
NURS 8002
Week 11: The DNP-Prepared Nurse as an Advocate for Social Change
When you think of an advocate for social change, what comes to mind? As it impacts the role of a nurse, how does a nurse present advocacy for promoting social change?
Throughout this course, you have considered and reflected on how the DNP-prepared nurse advocates for positive social change, whether that stems from direct patient-level care or more broadly to that of community-level or population-based actions to promote nursing practice and healthcare delivery.
As a DNP-prepared nurse, you will also function as a nurse leader in identifying and serving as a champion of those nursing practice and healthcare-related issues that merit transformation. In what ways will your advocacy and leadership impact the patients, Throughout this course, you have considered and reflected on how the DNP-prepared nurse advocates for positive social change, whether through direct patient-level care or through community-level or population-based actions to promote nursing practice and healthcare delivery.
As a DNP-prepared nurse, you will also serve as a nurse leader, identifying and championing nursing practice and healthcare-related issues that require transformation. How will your advocacy and leadership affect patients?communities, and populations you serve?
This week, you analyze the role of the DNP-prepared nurse in promoting advocacy for social change. In your Blog Assignment, you and your colleagues will have the opportunity to share your perspectives and examine your role for positive leadership and you continue your program of study.
Learning Objectives
Students will:
• Analyze the role of the DNP-prepared nurse in promoting advocacy for social change
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Learning Resources
Required Readings (click to expand/reduce)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2021). Social determinants of health: Know what affects health. https://www.cdc.gov/socialdeterminants/index.htm
Read, C. Y., Pino Betancourt, D. M., & Morrison, C. (2016). Social change: A framework for inclusive leadership: Development in nursing education. Journal of Nursing Education, 55(3), 164–167. https://doi.org/10.3928/01484834-20160216-08
Walden University. (2022). Social determinants of health: Understanding vision health equity. https://www.waldenu.edu/online-masters-programs/master-of-science-in-nursing/resource/social-determinants-of-health-understanding-vision-health-equity
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Blog: Positive Social Change and the DNP-Prepared Nurse
As a current and future advanced practice nurse, you are and will continue to serve as an agent of change in all you do. Think about the positive impacts you have on patient care, the organization and nursing practice in which you work, and the community in which you serve. How will earning the DNP degree not only support your advocacy for positive social change but, in its own right, represent a commitment toward fostering innovation for change in nursing practice?
For this Discussion, review the Learning Resources and reflect on how you, as a current and future advanced practice nurse, will strive for and commit to advocacy for positive social change. Consider how your current nursing practice experiences and future opportunities will further support your role as an agent of change.
To prepare:
• Review the Learning Resources and reflect on your personal and professional commitment to advocacy for patients, communities, and the profession.
• Think about how your role as a DNP-prepared nurse contributes to advocacy for positive social change and the social determinants of health.
ASSIGNMENT
Post an explanation of how you anticipate enacting personal and professional commitment for advocacy to positively impact your patients, communities, and the profession. Be specific. Then, explain how your role as a DNP-prepared nurse contributes to advocacy for positive social change.
