Advocacy Priorities
Identifying barriers and challenges that impact vulnerable and marginalized groups is an important first step, but advocates cannot stop there. What can be done to address the inequities, the challenges, and the barriers? How might an advocate use policy to enact change?
The Allegory of the Orchard required you to consider the barriers and challenges of specific vulnerable or marginalized populations. In our Week 1 Discussion, you identified a specific population connected to your practice, organization, or experience. This week you will explore that population further by determining a specific advocacy priority for the population.
Resources
Be sure to review the Learning Resources before completing this activity.
Click the weekly resources link to access the resources.
To Prepare:
- Review your selected population discussed in the Module 1, Week 1 Discussion: Allegory of the Orchard.
- Review the resources on vulnerable or marginalized populations.
- Consider the factors that create and maintain these populations.
- Reflect on nursing’s relationship with these populations and how this shapes our role in policy advocacy.
By Day 3 of Week 2
Using the selected population discussed in the Week 1 Discussion: Allegory of the Orchard, post a response detailing the following:
- What are the advocacy priorities for the population? What are the needs of this population?
- How are disparities reflected in policy and policy reflected in the disparities?
- What is the role of nursing, individually and collectively, in influencing policy decisions that adversely impact vulnerable populations?
Advocacy Priorities
Identifying barriers and challenges that impact vulnerable and marginalized groups is an important first step, but advocates cannot stop there. What can be done to address the inequities, the challenges, and the barriers? How might an advocate use policy to enact change?
The Allegory of the Orchard required you to consider the barriers and challenges of specific vulnerable or marginalized populations. In our Week 1 Discussion, you identified a specific population connected to your practice, organization, or experience. This week you will explore that population further by determining a specific advocacy priority for the population.
Resources
Be sure to review the Learning Resources before completing this activity. Click the weekly resources link to access the resources.
WEEKLY RESOURCES
To Prepare:
• Review your selected population discussed in the Module 1, Week 1 Discussion: Allegory of the Orchard.
• Review the resources on vulnerable or marginalized populations. • Consider the factors that create and maintain these populations. • Reflect on nursing’s relationship with these populations and how this shapes our role
in policy advocacy.
By Day 3 of Week 2
Using the selected population discussed in the Week 1 Discussion: Allegory of the Orchard, post a response detailing the following:
• What are the advocacy priorities for the population? What are the needs of this population?
• How are disparities reflected in policy and policy reflected in the disparities?
• What is the role of nursing, individually and collectively, in influencing policy decisions that adversely impact vulnerable populations?
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• Required Resources
• Dawes, Daniel E. (2020). The political determinants of health . Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Chapter 3, “The Political Determinants of Health Model” (pp. 41-77) • • Get it Right! A Global Health Channel. (2020). How to Understand What Are
Vulnerable Groups in Less than 3 MinutesLinks to an external site.? https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbDRgbI8rsA Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 3 minutes. Links to an external site.
• HMS DICP. (2020). Voting , Links to an external site.Health Policy, and Social JusticeLinks to an external site.: Political Determinants of Health. https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=17CDLlXSSMc Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 58 minutes. Links to an external site.
• Malloy, Donald. (2020). Vulnerable Populations in HealthcareLinks to an external site.: Do you Know Who They Are? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h35EQ4Amqto Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 3 minutes. Links to an external site.
• Satcher Health Leadership Institute. (2021). The Political Determinants of Health — Jessica’s StoryLinks to an external site.. https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=cmMutvgQIcU Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 5 minutes.