Nurses Vote 2024 Healing Politics will speak with North Carolina nurse leaders about why voting is the easiest way for nurses and their patients to be civically engaged. We'll discuss how nurses can educate their colleagues and patients about the importance of voting as a way to improve a community's health.
Advancing social change, legislation, and the political landscape is a space where the skills of nurses shine. Learn about grassroots advocacy initiatives, a campaign school created specifically for nurses to engage in the political process, and the local work being done in community Emergency Departments to increase civic engagement around the country. Learn how these political and policy innovations can help you to take your next steps around civic engagement, elected office, or leading efforts to shape and advance our communities, society, and maybe even the democratic process itself! Speakers: Aliya Bhatia, Executive Director Vot-ER Lisa Summers, Co- founder and President Healing Politics Kimberly Gordon, DNP, CRNA Co-Founder Healing Politics Katherine Rowe, Grassroots Advocacy Coordinator, American Nurses Association
Healing Politics: Nurses Needed Healing Politics will discuss the importance of policy and politics in nursing practice and how nurses possess the knowledge and expertise to help heal the political divide at every level of governance: local, state, and federal.
About this event 🏥 Join Healing Politics & Vot-ER for an Interactive Webinar 🗳️ Hosted by Nurses Davey Scher, MPH, MSN, RN, CEN, & Janet Michaelis: Learn to use your trusted voice to encourage patients to register to vote. Session Takeaways: Understand the Relationship Between Voting and Health: Discover how civic participation impacts overall well-being. 🗳️❤️ Access Resources for Nonpartisan Voter Registration: Equip yourself with tools to help patients register without partisan bias. 📚📝 Learn Legal Guardrails for Voter Registration: Ensure compliance with legal standards while promoting voter registration. ⚖️✅ Let's make a difference together! 💪🌍 Register HERE at Vot-ER About Vot-ER Vot-ER is bridging a gap in care with a groundbreaking prescription: civic engagement. Our mission is to empower patients and healthcare professionals to address the root causes of health disparities through civic participation. By doing so, we're not just treating symptoms — we're fostering a healthier, more equitable society. Our swift and easy HIPAA compliant resources promote employee happiness, combat burnout, and cultivate deeper trust between the healthcare professional and patient. Since our founding in 2020, Vot-ER has expanded, with over 350 institutional partnerships, 700 participating sites, and 50,000 healthcare professionals. Our movement has been featured by The New York Times, CNN, Washington Post, NBC, NPR, and PBS NewsHour. Recognizing that 83% of adults will visit a healthcare facility in the next year, we understand the critical role these spaces can play in voter registration and turnout, which directly impact public health and investment. Together, we can uplift patients’ voices in shaping local, state, and federal health policy, through the power of their vote.
Kimberly will deliver the keynote address Healing Politics: Every Nurse is Needed at the Florida Nurse Practitioner Network Annual meeting on Friday, August 23 at 9:15 am. She will then be joined for a question and answer session by Rosemarie Latham, a Nurse Practitioner running for the Florida House of Representatives - District 29 this fall. They will discuss everything from the unique skills nurses bring to campaigning for elected office to how NPs can help nurses and nurse-friendly candidates run and win!
Kimberly joins the Georgia Association of Nurse Anesthetists to conduct a legislative workshop for incoming and outgoing members of the Board of Directors. We'll talk about methods to increase member engagement in legislative advocacy, the importance of civic engagement, and, of course, encouraging colleagues to run for elected office - and how to help them win!
Representation matters. Diverse voices at policy-making tables lead to public policy that is more representative of the community it serves. However, nursing’s voice is missing from many of those tables. We now know the number of nurses in elected office is decreasing, not increasing. Let’s change that! During this webinar we will discuss the importance of representation in politics, why nurse attorneys are uniquely qualified to run for elected office, and how to get started. There are 3.5 million nurses in the United States and while we won’t all run for office, the millions of us that don’t can help those that do. Learner Objectives Define “representation” in the political context. Identify the skills and expertise that make nurse attorneys uniquely qualified to run for elected office at every level - local, state, or federal. Describe what the participant can do to increase the representation of nurses in elected office. Register here
As nurses, we’re keenly aware of the social determinants of health - those conditions in the environments where people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age that affect our health. Perhaps more important are the political determinants of health – the policy choices that led to the SDOH. Join us on September 23rd at 8 pm ET to hear about Political Determinants of Health from Nelson J. Dunlap, JD, VP, Public Policy & External Affairs, School of Global Health at Meharry Medical College. What are PDOH and how are they different from SDOH? How can nurses support PDOH? Please consider donating $10 to support future Healing Politics events.
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