As an active Nurse member of the American Nurses Association (ANA) you are committed to engaging in activities related to health policy issues. To demonstrate your role as a client advocate you are writing a letter to a policy task force, or a legislative member or committee, pertaining to legal and professional policies associated with genetic discrimination that you have read about in the news.’
Write a sample letter to a policy task force, or a legislative member or committee, that demonstrates client advocacy pertaining to genetic discrimination and it’s correlation to legal and professional policies.
Make sure to include the following details in the letter:
A description/background of the genetic discrimination
What is the specific problem?
A description of the related legal policy
A description of the related professional policy
A differentiation of the levels of policy and impact variations
Your input that defends your advocacy for clients impacted by the discrimination