Essay NU625-7 Unit 3 Discussion – Nurse Advocates Herzing

Essay NU625-7 Unit 3 Discussion – Nurse Advocates Herzing

NU625-7 Unit 3 Discussion – Nurse Advocates Herzing

Discussion Prompt

• Based on your experiences and readings, analyze the roles, empowerment of patients, and values needed to be an effective nurse advocate and policy player.
• Discuss the APN role as a change agent.
• Provide an example of a time that you have acted as an advocate or a situation that you are familiar with that involved an APN acting as an advocate.
• Additionally, address how the APN role is implemented at an organizations, state, and national level.
• The text discusses the limited evidence base for the credibility of advocacy, in your opinion does it work?
• Why or why not? Support your thoughts with evidence.

Estimated time to complete: 3 hours

Discussion Peer/Participation Prompt

Instructions:

Please respond to at least 2 of your peer’s posts.  To ensure that your responses are substantive, use at least two of these prompts:

• Do you agree with your peers’ assessment?
• Take an opposing view to a peer and present a logical argument supporting an alternate opinion.
• Share your thoughts on how you support their opinion and explain why.
• Present new references that support your opinions.

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.