As the largest professional health care group, nurses need to be politically involved with the consumer movement in health care to support the advancement of nursing service. The majority of nurses can do this by:
a. becoming members of their professional organization
b. becoming lobbyists for interested government agencies
c. supporting legislation for more government control
d. supporting physicians to direct health care policy
A
Nurses can be politically involved by becoming members of and supporting their professional organization. Becoming a lobbyist is not for the majority. More government control is not supporting the advancement of nursing service. Supporting physicians to direct health care policy does not focus on the needs of nursing as a profession.
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