What does advocacy mean to you? In this episode, Teresa R. Villaran, MS, MSN, CNN, CCRN (Alumnus), discusses with Lillian Pryor, MSN, RN, CNN, why it is important for nurses to become advocates for their profession and patients. She encourages nurses to use their collective voice to influence and advocate for policy and health care legislation at the local, state, and federal levels. She advises nurses to “Develop your story, and make sure legislators know your name and that you are a nurse.”
Teresa R. Villaran, MS, MSN, CNN, CNE, CCRN (Alumnus), is a staff nurse with Fresenius Kidney Care. She is the President of the ANNA Bluegrass Chapter, a member of the ANNA Health Policy Committee, and serves on the Manuscript Review Panel for the Nephrology Nursing Journal. She is the current Chair of the Kentucky Nurses Association Professional Nursing Practice and Advocacy Cabinet and serves on the 2019-2021 Kentucky Nurses Association Board of Directors. She is a Board Member of the St. John’s College of Nursing Alumni Association. She has served as an advocate the past two years at the National Kidney Foundation Patient Summit. She is currently a member of the National Kidney Foundation State Chronic Kidney Disease task force/ Living Donor Protection Act coalition. She has been active this year in delivering mass COCVID-19 vaccinations for the Louisville Health Department. She attended the American Nurses Association 2021 Hill Day and The Nurse in Washington Internship as a grant through ANNA. She currently sits on the Kentucky Nurses Association task force charged with creating a Legislative and Leadership Academy to increase nurses’ confidence and competence to exert their influence through policy.
Lillian Pryor, MSN, RN, CNN, is a Renal Clinical Nurse at the Atlanta VA Medical Center in Decatur, Georgia. A member of the American Nephrology Nurses Association since 1990, Ms. Pryor has served in roles that include president-elect, ANNA director, ANNA Awards and Scholarships Committee chairperson, ANNA representative to the Kidney Health Initiative Patient Preference Task Force, and an author and peer reviewer for the Nephrology Nursing Journal. Ms. Pryor served as the 2020-2021 President of the American Nephrology Nurses Association. In addition, she is an active member of ANNA’s Dogwood Chapter in Georgia and has served the chapter as both its president and health policy representative.
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