1. Nurse, Activist, Nurse- Activist? Abe Oudshoorn, RN, PhD Social Media in Research

2. The Call Nursing is a Political Act – The Bigger Picture – CNA 2000 “As practitioners who strive to provide holistic, comprehensive care, we must understand that health is political – and that to be advocates may require us to become political activists.” “It is not difficult to see how acting on a political level is a natural extension of the essence of nursing – of caring.”

3. The Allies

4. Who Affects Change?

5. Changing Policy Agency or government

6. Agenda Setting

7. Issues Management Agenda Setting

8. Speaking Out

9. Through Staff Agenda Setting Policy Formulation

12. From the Ground Up Agenda Setting Policy Formulation Policy Implementation

14. The Practicing Nurse Advocate “When nurses find themselves unable to nurse as they had envisioned.” McIntyre and McDonald

15. The Administrator Nurse Advocate A spoke in the wheel of power Budgets are moral documents Whistleblowing

16. The Academic Nurse Advocate

17. Risks Frustration/burnout Co-optation Personal risk Loss of objectivity ‘Pigeon-holed’

18. Reward

19. Questions