Ziehm Scott R, Karshmer Judith F, Greiner Philip A, Greenberg Cindy Smith, Berman Audrey, McFarland Patricia
University of San Francisco, USA.
University of San Francisco, USA.
J Prof Nurs. 2019 Jan-Feb;35(1):32-36. doi: 10.1016/j.profnurs.2018.01.001. Epub 2018 Jan 6.
The California Association of Colleges of Nursing (CACN) is a not-for-profit, non-partisan nursing organization whose members are the universities' Schools of Nursing that offer baccalaureate and graduate degree programs in California. The nursing deans and directors are the individuals who attend scheduled statewide meetings and actualize the mission, vision, and governance of this organization. Starting in 2011, CACN began a journey toward greater political activism that was initiated by strategic planning. During the Spring 2017 meeting, forty-four California nursing deans/directors advanced their advocacy by attending prescheduled visits with California legislators. The goals for meetings with California policy makers included: 1. Inform them about CACN as an organization and its sphere of influence and 2. Educate them about CACN's perspective on current bills in the California legislature. This manuscript details a process to assist other state organizations to move toward political activism in support of the nursing profession from the academic nursing leadership perspective.
加利福尼亚护理学院协会（CACN）是一个非营利性、无党派的护理组织，其成员是在加利福尼亚州提供学士和研究生学位项目的大学护理学院。护理学院院长和主任是参加定期全州会议并落实该组织使命、愿景和管理工作的人员。从2011年开始，CACN踏上了由战略规划发起的更积极参与政治活动的征程。在2017年春季会议期间，44位加利福尼亚护理学院院长/主任通过参加与加利福尼亚州立法者的预定访问推进了他们的宣传工作。与加利福尼亚州政策制定者会面的目标包括：1. 向他们介绍CACN这个组织及其影响力范围；2. 向他们阐述CACN对加利福尼亚州立法机构当前法案的看法。本手稿详细介绍了一个从学术护理领导角度协助其他州组织走向政治激进主义以支持护理专业的过程。
