Course activity and resources to encourage interest in advocacy, exploring why nurses may not get involved. Submitted by Nancy Short, DrPH, MBA, RN from Duke University.
- List of influential organizations affecting health policy
- A Healthy Blog: Health Care for All
- American Journal of Bioethics blog
- An Ounce Of Evidence — Ashish Jha’s Blog
- Common Cause
- Global Health Policy
- Journal of Health Politics and Policy’s News and Notes
- National Conference of State Legislatures
- National Governor’s Association
- NASHP State Health Policy Blog
- Patient POV
- Reforming Health
- Running A Hospital
- The California HealthCare Foundation’s On Practical Progress
- The Health Care Blog
- The Incidental Economist
- The Medical Professionalism Blog
- U.S. Health Policy Gateway
- Wall Street Journal Health Blog
- Washington Post’s Wonk Blog: Health Care
- Suzanne Gordon’s blog
- Activity: Have student collect articles from newspapers, non-nursing journals, blogs etc for 2-3 weeks. Watch Dave Meslin talks at TED about “The Antidote to Apathy”. Why don’t more of us get involved? At http://www.ted.com/talks/dave_meslin_the_antidote_to_apathy Do nurses intentionally exclude ourselves from public discourse? Share the stories about or including nurses/nursing that you’ve gathered since week. Do you see any themes?
- Humor to make a point:
- We’re #37 at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVgOl3cETb43.
- Political Humor’s Hysterical History http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95413835
- Political cartoons: Seriously Funny from the Library of Congress at http://blogs.loc.gov/teachers/2011/06/political-cartoons-seriously-funny/
- If Air travel worked like health care at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J67xJKpB6c
