Nursing Professional Organization Evaluation

Instructions 

Use your selected health policy issue as the basis for completing this assignment.
Research a professional organization with influence over the health policy issue.
Locate at least one academic article focusing on the professional organization’s efforts to effect
change on the health policy issue. The article must be current (within 6 years) and must be a Contact the organization and ask at least two specific questions regarding the health policy issue
that neither their website nor the article answered.
Prepare a marketable visual presentation (i.e., flyer, pamphlet, poster, etc.) on the organization.
Include the following in your presentation:
The role and mission of the organization (15 pts)
The benefits of the organization to its members and the APRN community as a whole. (10 pts)
How will networking with this organization and with others in the industry help drive change in the
area of your selected health policy issue? (10 pts)
Based on the article you selected and your research on the organization, how can the
organization be used as a guiding coalition to address your health policy issue. (15 pts)
Write a 350- to 525-word summary analyzing three of the core competencies of advanced
practice nursing and how they relate to professional organizations and professional
development.
Consider the following questions in your summary: (20 pts)
Why are the selected competencies important?
How will mastery of the competencies improve your practice?

How can you continue to develop the competencies after graduation?
Cite and reference using APA guidelines. Utilize correct grammar and punctuation and use of
article as outlined above. (10 pts)