{"id":216,"date":"2021-09-10T15:57:46","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T15:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/accnursing2030\/chapter\/10-1-introduction\/"},"modified":"2025-02-18T18:42:04","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T18:42:04","slug":"10-1-introduction","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/accnursing2030\/chapter\/10-1-introduction\/","title":{"raw":"10.1 Advocacy Introduction","rendered":"10.1 Advocacy Introduction"},"content":{"raw":"<div class=\"textbox textbox--learning-objectives\"><header class=\"textbox__header\">\n<h2 class=\"textbox__title\">Learning Objectives<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"textbox__content\">\n<ul>\n \t<li>Assess the effects of current health care policies on health care consumers and nursing practice<\/li>\n \t<li>Explore the role of professional organizations in nursing practice<\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Discuss legislative policy-making activities that influence nursing practice and health care<\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Examine various positions on unions and collective bargaining<\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Compare various workplace advocacy models<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nWhat do you think of when you hear the word \u201cadvocacy\u201d? Nurses act as advocates for their clients (e.g., individuals, families, communities, or populations) by protecting their \"client\u00a0rights\" and voicing their needs. Nurses have a long history of acting as client advocates. Early nurses advocated for professional nurses\u2019 value and knowledge and fought for implementation of best practices, safety measures, and other quality improvements. Florence Nightingale advocated for practice changes that improved environmental conditions in health care and reduced life-threatening infections by using data to support her recommendations. Lillian Wald worked to establish public health nursing and improve the lives of immigrant communities.\n\nMore recently, nurses led the establishment of Nurse Practice Acts in each state and pushed for multistate licensing via the Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC). The American Nurses Association (ANA) declared 2018 as the \u201cYear of Advocacy\u201d to highlight the importance of advocacy in the nurse\u2019s role. Nurses continue to advocate for building healthier communities as demonstrated in the<em> Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity <\/em>report.<sup>[footnote]National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. (2021). <em>The Future of nursing 2020-2030: Charting a path to achieve health equity.<\/em> The National Academies Press. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.17226\/25982\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.17226\/25982<\/a>[\/footnote]<\/sup>\n\nIn this chapter, we will review how every nurse is responsible for client advocacy and examine the powerful influence nurses can have on local, state, and federal health care policies that affect the nation\u2019s health and the profession of nursing.\n<div class=\"textbox \">\n<p class=\"arrow\">Read the <em>Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity<\/em> at <a href=\"https:\/\/campaignforaction.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>","rendered":"<div class=\"textbox textbox--learning-objectives\">\n<header class=\"textbox__header\">\n<h2 class=\"textbox__title\">Learning Objectives<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"textbox__content\">\n<ul>\n<li>Assess the effects of current health care policies on health care consumers and nursing practice<\/li>\n<li>Explore the role of professional organizations in nursing practice<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Discuss legislative policy-making activities that influence nursing practice and health care<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Examine various positions on unions and collective bargaining<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Compare various workplace advocacy models<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>What do you think of when you hear the word \u201cadvocacy\u201d? Nurses act as advocates for their clients (e.g., individuals, families, communities, or populations) by protecting their &#8220;client\u00a0rights&#8221; and voicing their needs. Nurses have a long history of acting as client advocates. Early nurses advocated for professional nurses\u2019 value and knowledge and fought for implementation of best practices, safety measures, and other quality improvements. Florence Nightingale advocated for practice changes that improved environmental conditions in health care and reduced life-threatening infections by using data to support her recommendations. Lillian Wald worked to establish public health nursing and improve the lives of immigrant communities.<\/p>\n<p>More recently, nurses led the establishment of Nurse Practice Acts in each state and pushed for multistate licensing via the Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC). The American Nurses Association (ANA) declared 2018 as the \u201cYear of Advocacy\u201d to highlight the importance of advocacy in the nurse\u2019s role. Nurses continue to advocate for building healthier communities as demonstrated in the<em> Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity <\/em>report.<sup><a class=\"footnote\" title=\"National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. (2021). The Future of nursing 2020-2030: Charting a path to achieve health equity. The National Academies Press. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.17226\/25982\" id=\"return-footnote-216-1\" href=\"#footnote-216-1\" aria-label=\"Footnote 1\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[1]<\/sup><\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>In this chapter, we will review how every nurse is responsible for client advocacy and examine the powerful influence nurses can have on local, state, and federal health care policies that affect the nation\u2019s health and the profession of nursing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"textbox\">\n<p class=\"arrow\">Read the <em>Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity<\/em> at <a href=\"https:\/\/campaignforaction.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr class=\"before-footnotes clear\" \/><div class=\"footnotes\"><ol><li id=\"footnote-216-1\">National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. (2021). <em>The Future of nursing 2020-2030: Charting a path to achieve health equity.<\/em> The National Academies Press. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.17226\/25982\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.17226\/25982<\/a> <a href=\"#return-footnote-216-1\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 1\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><\/ol><\/div>","protected":false},"author":32,"menu_order":1,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[48],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-216","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","chapter-type-numberless"],"part":215,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/accnursing2030\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/accnursing2030\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/accnursing2030\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/accnursing2030\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/accnursing2030\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/accnursing2030\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/216\/revisions\/217"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/accnursing2030\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/215"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/accnursing2030\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/216\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/accnursing2030\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/accnursing2030\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/accnursing2030\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/accnursing2030\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}