As pediatric-focused APRNs, you are advocating every day – for your patients, your students or your role as a health care leader. Join our community of experts in pediatrics and advocates for children in communicating with elected leaders and amplifying messages to benefit child health and advanced practice nursing. On this page, you can participate in our pre-formatted campaign or locate contact information for your elected leaders to call, email or tag in social media. Additional functions and campaigns will be added soon.
Participate in Our Advocacy Campaigns
Campaign: Share Your Opinion as the Senate Confirms Agency Leaders
As an expert in pediatrics and advocate for children, you have unique personal and professional experiences that shape your clinical practice, teaching style and/or research and publication goals. If you have strong feelings about any person nominated to lead a federal agency, we encourage you to share your thoughts with your U.S. Senators leading up to and during the confirmation process.
To be most impactful, we recommend that you include specific data and experiences as you stress the importance of developing national policies based on widely-accepted scientific evidence; protecting infants, children and adolescents from life-threatening diseases; communicating factual information that communities can use to mitigate infectious diseases and other health challenges; considering the environment’s impact on children’s health and/or other issues that are particularly important to you.
Using NAPNAP’s Advocacy Center, you can completely edit/customize your message in just 2-3 minutes and electronically send to your U.S. Senators. In the blue box, simply fill in your info, click next, customize the communication in the box under “Dear…” and click submit when finished.Â
Campaign: Your Elected Leaders Need Your Expertise
It is essential that NAPNAP members help build awareness about our profession and the key role that we play in delivering evidence-based, high quality pediatric health care. Take time to introduce (or reintroduce) yourself to your elected leaders – as a constituent and a health care leader. Start building relationships now so that elected officials better understand you and the issues you will raise during their terms. As an expert in pediatrics and an advocate for children, you are a valuable resource and influencer in your home district!
It’s quick and easy to advocate for child health and advanced practice nursing issues with our pre-formatted communication that sends directly to your elected leaders in Congress. In the blue box, simply fill in your info, click next, review and/or customize the communication and click submit.Â