Background: Public health advocacy is central to the work of many health professionals,
including nurses. Although deemed to be a core competency for public health practitioners …

Background This manuscript describes an innovative approach to public health nursing
education. Health care delivery is radically shifting to non‐acute, community‐based settings …

Background: Nursing faculty are challenged to create learning experiences that both reflect
the complexities of the current health care system and are relevant. Experiential learning …

Background: Historically, nursing curricula have not offered opportunities for students to
develop hands-on political competence. A public health policy simulation can improve …

AIM The goal of this study was to identify strategies for teaching health advocacy for
undergraduate nursing students. BACKGROUND Although health advocacy is a core skill of …

Background: Policies, regulations, and laws influence all aspects of health care, including
the education of health care professionals, independent practice, and patient access to care …

Background: Advocacy is an expectation of the nursing profession. Nursing curricula should
include opportunities for advocacy skills building at multiple levels of potential effect …

Background Skills to promote advocacy, a nursing competency, are vital to today's cohorts of
nursing students, who often struggle with discourse. Opportunities to develop, defend, and …

Background: Advocacy is widely recognized as a nursing responsibility. Speaking up, a form
of advocacy, is known to benefit patient safety and quality of care yet research shows that …

Although nurses constitute the largest segment of the health care workforce in the United
States, their participation in all levels of health policy advocacy remains low. We surveyed …