Objectives:
- Discuss the benefits of belonging to a professional nursing organization.
- Explain the importance of advocacy and activism as a professional nurse.
- Discuss the benefits of networking within a professional nursing organization
- .Discuss the importance of advocacy as it pertains to patient care. What is the nurse’s role in patient advocacy? Describe a situation in which you were involved with patient advocacy. Explain what the advocacy accomplished for the patient, and what the repercussions would have been if the patient would not have had an advocate.