Reference no: EM131649578

Nursing Masters Degree Level

Application Assignment 2: Part 2 - Developing an Advocacy Campaign

To prepare:

Select a population health issue of interest to you and identify the population affected by the issue.

Locate two scholarly articles, each of which provides a description of an effective health advocacy campaign that addresses your issue.

Contemplate how existing laws or regulations may affect how you proceed in advocating for your proposed policy.

Consider how you could influence legislators or other policymakers to enact the policy you propose.

Think about the obstacles of the legislative process that may prevent your proposed policy from being implemented as intended.

To complete:

Part Two will have approximately 3-4 pages of content plus a title page and references. Part Two will address the following:

Explain whether your proposed policy could be enacted through a modification of existing law or regulation or the creation of new legislation/regulation.

Explain how existing laws or regulations could affect your advocacy efforts. Be sure to cite and reference the laws and regulations using primary sources.

Provide an analysis of the methods you could use to influence legislators or other policymakers to support your policy. In particular, explain how you would use the "three legs" of lobbying in your advocacy efforts.

Summarize obstacles that could arise in the legislative process and how to overcome these hurdles.