Power Dynamic in Nursing The rapid changes in the United State healthcare environments to address disparities, and better health for all have called for nurses to exercise their power in order to have a strong voice in influencing these changes (Premji, & Hatfield, 2016). In today’s work force, nurses have to apply their power and flex their political muscle to be able to serve as health care advocates for patients, colleagues, and the public (Wolf, Finlayson, Hayden, Hoolahan, & Mazzoccoli, 2014). In the past, the media, physicians, politicians, and the healthcare executives have conventionally seen nursing and nurses as powerless (King-Jones, 2011), however, as nurses become more vocal in their political movements in the local,
