Identify an existing healthcare policy that needs improvement or a new policy recommendation relevant to your current practice, community health needs, or personal interests.

ssignment Overview: Nurses can advocate for healthcare policies to promote justice, fairness, and health equity at facility, local, state, national, and global
levels. Writing a letter of concern for or support towards a particular policy or legislation is an effective way to hold leaders accountable in their positions.
Assignment Instructions: Complete the following steps to begin your Policy Advocacy Letter for this week’s checkpoint assignment. You will submit your
responses in an APA-formatted paper (approximately 200 words in length) with in-text citations and references for any cited resources used to support your
proposal.
• Identify an existing healthcare policy that needs improvement or a new policy recommendation relevant to your current practice, community health
needs, or personal interests. Submit a link or a PDF of the policy with your paper for this assignment. Note: Navigate to Congress.gov and view the
following video on how to search for legislation.

• Explain why that policy or recommendation is important. You must specify the exact piece of legislation in your paper and refer to its appropriate
title – e.g., “Title VIII funding, H. R. 952”.
• Identify a leader or change agent (local, state, and national leader/legislator) who is appropriate to advocate for this policy change or adoption.
Briefly justify why that leader is an appropriate choice for this policy change or adoption. Note: To determine your representatives, navigate to
Openstates.org.
• Identify the official mailing or email address of this leader. Note: Your elected officials’ email and physical addresses are available on their websites. You
can find out who represents you on the House and Senate websites.
Additional notes:
• You are advocating for pending legislation. You cannot choose something that has already passed because if that is the case, no advocacy is necessary.
• Always refer to your selected piece of legislation by its appropriate title – e.g., “Title VIII funding, H. R. 952”.
• The elected official you contact must have the authority to vote for the proposed legislation. The mayor, governor, or assemblyman (woman) of a city
would have no legislative authority and therefore would not be appropriate. You are most likely going to contact a state or federal member of Congress
(House or Senate)

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