Nurses can be an integral part of designing public policy as political leaders. As a registered nurse, you have a professional commitment to improve health care. However, many nurses are not politically active and do not lobby for important aspects of their profession.

• What are the reasons many nurses do not actively engage in lobbying efforts?
• What actions can nurses take to encourage themselves and their peers to get involved politically and lobby for specific issues such as healthcare policy changes? Provide a detailed example.

In order to receive full credit, you will need to clearly respond to both parts of the question using subtitles or bullets AND cite at least one scholarly reference in your response.

As you prepare to transition from an academic student to a newly graduated nurse in clinical practice, consider the following:

• What two provisions in the ANA’s Code of Ethics for Nurses may help you in this transition?
• Expand on your chosen provisions and describe how adopting them into your clinical practice will help you to be successful.

In order to receive full credit, you will need to clearly respond to both parts of the question using subtitles or bullets AND cite at least one scholarly reference in your response.

The United States and other countries are experiencing nursing shortages. To help ease the shortage, many resources are spent on recruiting foreign nurses.

• What are the reasons for these shortages? If the United States and other industrial nations put their resources into increasing nurse retention, would the need to recruit foreign nurses decrease? Why or why not?
• Choose one of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and discuss how a community nurse can work toward achieving that goal.

In order to receive full credit, you will need to clearly respond to both parts of the question using subtitles or bullets AND cite at least one scholarly reference in your response.

As healthcare organizations become more complex and our focus on the patient experience expands, nurses are leading and participating in evidence-based practice (EBP) projects and quality improvement (QI) initiatives with the goal of improving patient outcomes.

• In what ways is EBP applied where you work or where you do clinicals?
• Discuss the findings of a QI initiative or study from either your clinical location/hospital website or another online source.

In order to receive full credit, you will need to clearly respond to both parts of the question using subtitles or bullets AND cite at least one scholarly reference in your response.

Lifelong learning involves a commitment to remain current within a rapidly changing, increasingly complex, and technologically reliant healthcare world.

• Why is it important for nurses to commit to lifelong learning in relation to patients, organizations, and self?
• How can organizations such as Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI) assist nurses in their lifelong learning journey?

After you view each case study, click on the title link to use the journal tool to reflect upon what you have learned and how it is related to the learning materials. Compare each case study to your nursing practice and give a similar example from your experience in which you might have run into an ethical situation.

This week, explain the various responsibilities and services of FEMA when a disaster occurs in the United States. Do some research on past disasters, and describe how FEMA supported the community and disaster efforts. Address 2-3 of the following.

• How did FEMA help people prepare for the disaster?
• What services did FEMA provide to the community?
• Who else participated in the disaster relief efforts?
• How much monetary damage was caused by the disaster? Or, how much did FEMA spend in relief?
• What was public perception of FEMA and the response they provided?

Provide links to your sources for others to reference nurse.

Support your answer with evidence from the disasters that you researched.

What is the process of nursing research? How does it relate to evidence-based practice and patient care? Discuss the application of research findings to a clinical problem you found. Cite credible sources, this is for a discussion post so it does not need to be as lengthy.

1. First, go to ATI and watch the ATI video case study Nursing Process. (VIDEO WILL BE ATTACHED IN CHAT)
2. Next, answer and discuss the following questions about the video here in the discussion board:

• The nurse in the video is using the nursing process to care for the client. What are the steps of the nursing process? How does the nursing process assist in prioritizing nursing care?