Do you believe that nurses as lobbyists are essential to the growth of nursing as a profession? Why or why not?

Do you believe that nurses as lobbyists are essential to the growth of nursing as a profession? Why or why not?

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I believe that nurses as lobbyists are very much essential to the overall growth of the nursing profession because the nursing profession is a leading and largest medical profession where nurses as lobbyists enable themselves to be supporters and advocates for their patients.

Nurses educate the patients regarding the medical services, terms, and understand the interest and needs of patients and empower the patients and advocate on specific healthcare policies or legislation and advocate on behalf of them and lobby these issues and enhance the growth of the nursing profession. Nurses as lobbyists enhance the growth of nursing profession because when nurses lobby, they would develop the potential to influence policymaking and politics in the nursing profession. The role of nurses when engaged as lobbyists in the legislation impacts the patient’s health outcomes. When nurses influence the policymaking decisions and politics as lobbyists it would enable them to improves the care delivery process by advocating for the patients they serve. Nurses when they join their voices together and be united can bring an innumerable change to the overall nursing profession and can influence the growth of the nursing profession because they can involve actively in policymaking and plays and legislation matters and enhance the care delivery process by supporting the policies that affect the healthcare positively”

As the largest health profession in the world, nurses can wield great power when they work collaboratively with others and use evidence about health care outcomes to enact important changes in health policy” (Groenwald, & Eldridge, 2020 p.1). Politics, power, and predictability of nursing care. In Nursing Forum (Vol. 55, No. 1, pp. 16-32). As the nursing profession is one of the largest professions globally and nurses are the major workforce in the healthcare industry, they can work collaboratively to lobby in policymaking and political matters and take part actively in political formulation as this will influence the overall nursing professional growth. The growth of the nursing profession lies in the hands of nurses when they voice together to address these issues and advocate for patients and strive to formulate policies that enhance patient healthcare outcomes the growth of the nursing profession will have no boundaries.

References

Groenwald, S. L., & Eldridge, C. (2020, January). Politics, power, and predictability of nursing care. In Nursing Forum (Vol. 55, No. 1, pp. 16-32).