After checking out the links above, discuss advocacy that you feel your fellow nurses and ANA exhibited. Do you think a nurse on the COVID-19 Task force is important (why or why not)? How can you apply advocacy beyond your nursing practice?

POLITICAL ACTIVISM

Learning Activity: Political Activism

This online is designed to have you apply the concepts of advocacy and policy that have been discussed in class.

Read the following press releases and answer the questions below. Answers should be numbered and show reflection of previous class material and readings in order to receive full credit.

ANA Letter to President Trump requesting a nurse be named to the Coronavirus Task Force, May 7, 2020: https://www.nursingworld.org/practice-policy/work-environment/health-safety/disaster-preparedness/coronavirus/may-7-2020-ana-letter-to-president-trump/ (Links to an external site.)

CNN Opinion: President-elect Biden, you need a nurse on your COVID Task Force, November 15, 2020: This op ed is written by a doctoral nursing student and nursing faculty: https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/15/opinions/joe-biden-nurses-covid-19-task-force-ghazal-dorsen/index.html (Links to an external site.)

Theresa Brown’s petition to President-elect Biden/Biden-Harris Transision Team (44,000 signatures). Theresa Brown is a clinical nurse from Pittsburgh and contributor to the New York Times : https://www.change.org/p/president-elect-joe-biden-biden-transition-team (Links to an external site.)

Meet the Seattle nurse appointed to Biden’s COVID-19 advisory board, December 2020: https://www.king5.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/seattle-nurse-jane-hopkins-biden-coronavirus-advisory-team/281-0b0d6551-2d08-41ba-accc-47e87a87dad7 (Links to an external site.)
(Links to an external site.Discussion Questions:

After checking out the links above, discuss advocacy that you feel your fellow nurses and ANA exhibited.
Do you think a nurse on the COVID-19 Task force is important (why or why not)?
How can you apply advocacy beyond your nursing practice?

https://www.king5.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/seattle-nurse-jane-hopkins-biden-coronavirus-advisory-team/281-0b0d6551-2d08-41ba-accc-47e87a87dad7

https://www.change.org/p/president-elect-joe-biden-biden-transition-team

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/15/opinions/joe-biden-nurses-covid-19-task-force-ghazal-dorsen/index.html

https://www.nursingworld.org/practice-policy/work-environment/health-safety/disaster-preparedness/coronavirus/may-7-2020-ana-letter-to-president-trump/

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