Nurse, Activist, Nurse- Activist? Abe Oudshoorn, RN, PhD Social Media in Research
The Call Nursing is a Political Act – The Bigger Picture – CNA 2000 “As practitioners who strive to provide holistic, comprehensive care, we must understand that health is political – and that to be advocates may require us to become political activists.” “It is not difficult to see how acting on a political level is a natural extension of the essence of nursing – of caring.”
The Allies
Who Affects Change?
Changing Policy Agency or government
Agenda Setting
Issues Management Agenda Setting
Speaking Out
Through Staff Agenda Setting Policy Formulation
From the Ground Up Agenda Setting Policy Formulation Policy Implementation
The Practicing Nurse Advocate “When nurses find themselves unable to nurse as they had envisioned.” McIntyre and McDonald
The Administrator Nurse Advocate A spoke in the wheel of power Budgets are moral documents Whistleblowing
The Academic Nurse Advocate
Risks Frustration/burnout Co-optation Personal risk Loss of objectivity ‘Pigeon-holed’
Reward
Questions