Psychiatric disorders affect about 1 in 5 adults in the U.S., which is a total of approximately 18.5% of the adult population or 43.8 million adults who experience mental illnesses in a given year (NAMI, n.d.). As a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner (PMHNP) to be, my plan on becoming a social change agent will be a thorough education to my community and clients in regard to mental health and the stigma around it. The role of a social change agent is to advocate for the people you work with and also to break the stigma surrounding mental illness. Being a nurse, we act as advocates for our patients already by providing informed care for their best interest. An important strategy to implement as a social change agent is to make use of the empirical rational strategy, which takes care of the idea that self-interest is a way that individuals are motivated to act (Delaney, 2011).