Welcome to Healing Politics

Healing Politics is a clarion call to honor the spirit of our country. Promoting nurses in elected office promotes wellbeing. Our future must include common sense and health lens on every law. I am supporting this work with every fiber of my being.

Social change is driven by citizen engagement in politics and policy. There is no better group to do this important work than nurses and midwives, the backbone of every healthy community and the most trusted profession in the US. In the epoch of climate change, our nation and the world need the crucial work of Healing Politics.

Nurses around the world are saying 'My voice matters' and are using their voices to advocate for healthy public policies. It's time for more nurses to be the policymakers and this 'campaign school' is critical for helping nurses pursue this path.

Nurses have the requisite skills to be effective legislators: multi-taskers; evidence-based thinkers; people skills. We understand the social picture; and we are good listeners and value social justice and understand that policies and lawmaking affect real people. It is what we do as nurses. Healing politics is filling a gap by encouraging nurses to run for elected office and providing the technical skills and knowledge needed to get elected.

Building nursing leadership capacity is critical to the health of the public in this country. As noted in the Future of Nursing 2020-2030 report, nurses are called out to secure appointed and elected positions in order to use their expertise and voice to advocate for policy change. The campaign school is just the vehicle to get nurses on their way to realize this goal!