Overview
This is a 2-part question.
1. One way to demonstrate activism is to write a professional letter to the legislator who is supporting a specific piece of legislation.
Research a legislator and current legislation that is important to your own community (Continuing with the black maternal mortality act)
Ensure the bill under discussion is currently on the legislator's agenda. For example, discuss a state bill with a state legislator or a federal bill with a federal legislator. Include the bill # as identification.
Compose a short, formal position letter (one page) addressed to your legislator of choice. Introduce yourself and explain your professional role in soliciting their attention to the legislation.
The letter should clearly and succinctly articulate the issue and the need for change. Include researched factual information that would or would not support the legislation based on either socio-cultural, economic, political, or legal variables. Discuss the stakeholders who would be affected by the legislation's outcome if it were to pass. Reference appropriately.
2. Now that you have researched a bill of interest and were an activist for this important community-related issue with your political representative through formal letter writing, share what you have learned about this same topic, in a more in-depth manner, and what other strategies would you use to advocate for or against this legislation with your peers in this discussion.
Introduce the bill of interest that is important to your own community.
- Who is the legislator responsible for the bill? Ensure the bill under discussion is currently on the legislator's agenda.
- State the title of the bill, bill number, and where the bill currently is in the legislative process.
- Identify how the stakeholders of the bill will be impacted. Summarize the intent of the bill in relation to socio-cultural, economic, political, and legal variables. Discuss the specific strategies you would use to advocate either for or against the bill. Explain how one or more of the provisions found in The Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements (2015) were the foundation that shaped your professional responsibilities in the advocacy process.
Support your discussion post with relevant information from at least three scholarly journal articles in addition to the assigned readings, textbooks, and relevant websites.