Assignment task:
Overview: Legislator E-mail Exercise
To take a proactive role in nursing policy, you will prepare an email to your legislator about a current nursing issue. You must first identify your legislator. Then, you will describe a current issue that is important to you with support from scholarly references related to the issue, and create a suggested action plan. Finally, you will write a concise, professionally worded e-mail to one of the state-level legislators. See sample email and resources in Canvas.
Objective:
- Identify the ways nurses can personally take part in shaping future nursing care.
Directions:
1. Find the legislator of the state you are licensed in. You will only write your email to one legislator, even if many are listed. You must only use a legislator in the state you are licensed in.
2. Identify one issue that is important to you and complete a short description of the issue. Locate at least 2 scholarly articles (dated within the past 5 years) to support your thoughts and list in correct APA format. Please see the APA tips page linked in the assignment details and/or APA journal article examples.
3. Complete an action plan section prior to composing the email as to organize your thoughts.
4. Write your final e-mail in the space provided on this assignment document.
- You MUST include one personal example about how the issue personally affects your nursing career.
5. Upload and submit the entire assignment into Canvas.
NOTE: It is not necessary for you to actually send your email to you legislator unless you choose to do so.