The Letter to Legislator Assignment is worth 13% of the course grade.
Visit your state or national ANA website or other state/federal legislative site and search for CURRENT health care policy issues and bills. Write a letter in the form of an email to your legislator, specific to a CURRENT piece of legislation and provide reasoning regarding how this issue will impact your ability to provide care to patients in your practice, your support or opposition for this issue, how this issue will impact health care, financing, etc. Determine if the issue should be directed to a state or federal legislator…this is to whom you should address your letter. Be cognizant that if writing a Senator, you should be referencing a Senate bill or if writing a Congressperson, you should be referencing a House bill. This is the case for both federal as well as state legislators.
The letter should include 3 facts to support your discussion. You state the resource such as "According to the CDC, …" APA format is not used–there should not be intext citations or a reference page. Simply state the source of the information with the fact.
Refer to the Additional Resources in this Module on how to write a letter as well as tips for writing a letter in an email to a legislator. Refer back to Module 4: Lecture Materials –Nursing Licensure and Regulation
Please refer to the grading rubric ‘Letter to Legislator Grading Rubric’ as you write your letter. The rubric can be found in the syllabus.
**Please put the URL/Link to the bill from the website you used to identify the bill in a comment for this assignment. This will allow your faculty to verify that the bill is current and identify the appropriate legislator.
Read/review the following:
American Nurses Association. (n.d.). Scope of practice. https://www.nursingworld.org/practice-policy/scope-of-practice/Links to an external site.
American Nurses Association. (2021, June). American Nurses Association recognition of a nursing specialty, approval of a specialty nursing scope of practice statement, acknowledgement of specialty nursing standards of practice and affirmation of focused practice competencies. https://www.nursingworld.org/~49d755/globalassets/practiceandpolicy/scope-of-practice/3sc-booklet-2021-june.pdfLinks to an external site.
Kentucky Board of Nursing. (2022). Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) / Registered Nurse (RN). https://kbn.ky.gov/Pages/lpn-rn.aspxLinks to an external site.
National Council of State Boards of Nursing. (2021, August 9). APRN consensus implementation status. https://www.ncsbn.org/5397.htmLinks to an external site.
National Council of State Boards of Nursing. (2022). APRN Consensus Model Toolkit. https://www.ncsbn.org/739.htmLinks to an external site.
Moore, C., Kabbe, A., Givson, T.S., & Letvak, S. (2020). The pursuit of nurse practitioner practice legislation: A case study. Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice, 21 (4), 222-232. DOI: 10.1177/1527154420957259 The pursuit of nurse practitioner practice legislation_A case study.pdf
Pay particular attention to: nursing licensure requirements including APRN, nurse practice acts including APRN, scope of practice including APRN, the specifics of the NCSBN Consensus Model, the various sources of regulation, and the role of courts in shaping policy. Further, pay particular attention to: Understanding Scope of Practice. Scope of Practice is tied to the Nurse Practice Act of the state in which you practice.
For nurses who work for the Veterans Administration, this is a bit different (this is truly the only exception that I am aware of).
You must know the Nurse Practice Act in your state and understand that this is legislated.
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