The family nurse practitioner sees voting as more than a right. It's our responsibility to become politically aware and politically active.
Nurses can make a big difference.
The goal of the campaign was to involve RNs in the political process at a grass-roots level. Nurses met that goal by volunteering on congressional, state and local campaigns of their choice. Nurses CAN '98 also gave RNs the opportunity to express to candidates their concerns about proposed changes in state practice acts, patient access to health care, whistle-blower legislation and other workplace issues, as well as the chance to build lasting relationships with lawmakers. Taking the plunge Judy Hines, RN, had long considered herself as more or less apolitical. I used to think that I couldn't talk to legislators.