Advocating for change

Enhance your learning and understanding of nursing’s role in self-advocacy at the organizational level. By effectively working together to solve problems and influence workplace policies, we can help advance solutions for essential patient services and workforce needs.  

As nurses, we are very capable of reinventing ourselves over and over again. We’ve had to, because we have a social contract to care with society. As we evolve to meet and advocate for society’s needs, there is also a strategy to advocating for ourselves and our profession.

Nurses can promote the preparation and equipping of the healthcare system to respond and meet the needs of the public using these steps to effectively advocate for sustainable change.

COVID-19 is a catalyst and a threshold event in all facets of our lives. Many aspects of the responses to COVID-19 provide the fuel we need to motivate us to drive transformation. This session addresses aspects of effective advocacy as we seek to transform health, healthcare, the nursing profession, and our personal lives.

A step-by-step guide to developing an advocacy plan at the organizational level to solve problems and influence workplace policies.