Political Advocacy-Analysis

What is your objective (clean the swamp or pet the alligators)? Select all that apply. When you are finished, click Continue.

To join a coalition of APNs who will work together to develop strategies to achieve prescriptive authority for APNs.
To influence national health policy in favor of full nurse practitioner practice that includes prescriptive authority.
To successfully advance APN prescriptive authority legislation and regulations through the state political process.
To interact with existing state nurses' organization activities focused on achieving prescriptive authority for APNs.

Good choice. Grass roots advocacy begins at the local level and involves working together with like minded colleagues toward a common goal. Select another objective, or click Continue to move on.

That's a bit ambitious as a starting point, but it's an admirable long-term goal. Though it may be difficult to recognize, work at the local and state levels can have broad impacts. Just as you can learn from the success of colleagues in other states, your successes may provide a foundation for others. Select another objective, or click Continue to move on.

That is certainly a reasonable objective given all you have learned about APN prescriptive authority in this state. Hopefully, you are not planning to go at it alone. Choose another objective, or click Continue to move on.

Excellent choice. Your contributions to what the state nurses' organization is trying to accomplish could have a big impact in this state. Select another objective, or click Continue to move on.