What is a change agent in nursing

Part 1:TYPE – Reflective Practitioner

Based on your experiences and readings, analyze the roles, empowerment of patients, and values needed to be an effective nurse advocate and policy player.
Discuss the APN role as a change agent.
Provide an example of a time that you have acted as an advocate or a situation that you are familiar with that involved an APN acting as an advocate.Additionally, address how the APN role is implemented at an organizations, state, and national level.
The text discusses the limited evidence base for the credibility of advocacy, in your opinion does it work? Why or why not? Support your thoughts with evidence.
Students are expected to:

For this discussion thread be sure that you address all 4 prompts. The third prompt has 2 parts so don't miss discussing both aspects. When you use a source to support your discussion be sure to provide in-text and reference citations per APA style guidelines.
an initial substantive response of 250 words
Include in text-citations, APA format, use at least 2 peer review journals
Post a response to each classmate. No more than 100 words include in-text citations and at least 1 reference APA style. Please be respectful.
Rebecca's Response:

Nurse Advocate and Policy Makers

Nurse advocates are the liaisons between patients and doctors. They help patients understand their diagnosis and make the best decisions about their health. Another role that is included is patient safety. Patient safety depends on nurse advocacy. Nurses are considered the last barrier when it comes to errors in health care because of their proximity and continuity with patients; nurses are often the last opportunity to prevent an error. Nurses in all roles and at all levels of the organization have a duty to patient safety. To be effective in advocacy efforts, nurses need to understand the laws and regulations governing their practice, and with that they would be able to better sever and protect their patients (American Nurses Association, 2017).