Identify your selected healthcare concern in your city or state that needs your advocacy with an elected official (My selected health care concern in Boston, Massachusetts is COVID vaccine rate among healthcare workers). What is the impetus and rationale for your selection? What is your solution to this concern? Describe the model of policy making that you feel would be best applied to your policy concern and the rationale for selecting this model.

Reading

Mason, D. J., Gardner, D. B., Outlaw, F. H., & O’Grady, E. T. (Eds). (2016). Policy & politics in nursing and healthcare (7th ed.). 

Chapter 4: Learning the Ropes of Policy and Politics

Chapter 7: The Policy Process

Chapter 9: Political Analysis and Strategies

Chapter 80: TAKING ACTION: The Nightingales Take on Big Tobacco