ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how future nurses are - or are not - educated to address the social mandate which many in the profession advocate for. This will be done via a series of questions about how key social mandate elements, such as advocacy, activism, and politics, are taught in schools of nursing. Each discrete area is explored through a critical synthesis of what is known about the challenges nurses experience in practice, and how these are addressed in the classroom. This will create a more detailed and nuanced understanding of how nurses are prepared, or could be better prepared, to meet their social mandate.
