Reference no: EM133709271
Assignment:
1. Use USA.gov website to locate your local State Government website, in particular the legislative site and look for pending legislation. Review the information and list at least three and no more than five bills that are of interest to you as a nurse. Include the actual bill number with a one line description of the bill, i.e. HB245 or SB 141. (Ilinois )
2. Go to Library of Congress.gov and look for pending federal legislation. Include the actual bill number and title of the bill.
3. After watching Schoolhouse Rock's I'm Just a Bill, list two key points from the video related to policymaking in the United States (US).
4. Go to your or a professional nursing organization's website (Oncology Nursing Society [ONS], National League of Nurses [NLN], American Nurses Association [ANA], American Association of Critical Care Nurses [AACN], and such), locate and review their policy agenda. The policy agenda is related to what bills or legislative issues the professional nursing organization support. As you review the policy agenda, think about your reading (i.e. Setting the policy agenda). There are four (A, B, C, D) responses to this item #4.
A. Identify the professional nursing organization's name for which you will answer the following B, C, D.
B. What are two key points of your selected professional nursing organization's (identified in 4A.) policy agenda?
C. What are two examples of how your selected professional nursing organization's (identified in 4A.) policy agenda can or does affect you and/or your nursing practice.
D. What two actions have your selected professional nursing organization (identified in 4A.) or you taken related to the selected professional nursing organization policy agenda? The response to this 4D is to be discussion of actions that the professional organization identified in 4A has taken at the federal or state level or you specifically have taken related to policy/legislation.
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