Professional Advocacy

Professional Advocacy

For this assignment, you will submit two letters. One letter will be written to your state senator or state representative to advocate for a professional issue that is relevant to your state of practice. The second letter will be written to your member of the U.S. Congress (your U.S. senator or your U.S. House of Representatives member). To locate your U.S. senators, U.S. representatives, and state legislators, use these links:

Find your U.S. Senators

Find your U.S. House Representative

Find your State Legislator

Using the information from Week 13 Discussion 1: APRN Political Action State Initiatives on the issues identified by your state professional organization advocacy team, write a letter to one of your members of the U.S. Congress (U.S. Senate or U.S. House of Representatives) and a letter to one of your state legislators.

In these letters, identify:

The issue

Why it is an issue

How it affects patient care and outcomes

How it restricts practice

A suggestion for removing such barriers

Use information learned from this class as well as information provided to you by your classmates from different states to provide an argument for change. Submit your draft letters for this assignment. Your faculty will provide feedback, so that you can strengthen the letters before mailing them.

Please refer to the Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded.

For this assignment to be considered complete, you must submit two letters (one for the state legislator and one for the U.S. senator or representative) that address all the prompts listed. These letters must be submitted to the DropBox by Day 7.