Affordable Care Act (ACA): A Case Study

Role of Graduate Nurse in Informatics are: 1) computer generated nursing care plan for each patient. 2) reminder and prompts that appear during documentation to ensure comprehensive charting. 3) help as a communication aid to other health care professionals taking care of the same patient. For example, Electronic Health Record.

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Professional organizations uphold its members and try to improve nursing practice. Professional organizations can serve as a voice in government. There is power in numbers. A community is a group of people who either share a common interest such as church, school, or a geographic location such as a neighborhood, town or city (Mason, Gardner, & O'Grady, 2016). By participating in community outreach programs, nurses use their knowledge, skills, and experience to improve the community's health. The Affordable Care Act has shifted focus on health and wellness of patient populations urging hospitals to do a community needs assessment and come up with a strategy to address these needs. Hospitals most often partner with community and professional organizations to address the health need (Stempniak, 2014). This is an example of how the four spheres are all interrelated. Nurses are at the heart of this movement, providing the necessary skills, experience and expertise to address the needs of the population being served (Shamian,

The DNP student implied that this program was funded by the Florida Blue Foundation. The DNP student discussed the process and challenges endured during the program. The outcome of being a participant in this program was the opportunity to connect with other nurse leaders, and learn the process of policy development build on leadership skills.

Health care expenditures are increasing at a rapid rate in the United States each year. One option to decrease expenditures and increase patient outcomes is the implementation of the Accountable Care Organization. The following discourse summarizes the goal of ACOs, the goal of the ACO, implications and barriers to ACO start-up, and nursing implications for both entry-level nurses and advanced practice nurses.

The mission of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing is to serve as the collective voice for academic nursing in order to set the standard of excellence and innovation in nursing education, research, and practice. The AACN works to establish quality standards for nursing education and assists schools in implementing those standards. They also influence the nursing profession to improve health care and promote public support for professional nursing education, research, and practice.

A standard of nursing practice is developing treatment plans that are individualized to a specific individual. This requires a partnership built on trust in which the nurse considers the person’s values, beliefs, spiritual and health practices, preferences, choices, culture and environment as part of treating the whole person (ANA, 2010). Nurses must also collaborate with other healthcare consumers, and family to effect change and produce positive outcomes. They should educate others as needed and create an atmosphere of tolerance and

A2c) Enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act provides comprehensive health care reform for universal coverage of Americans, Consumer rights and protections which now stops insurance companies to refuse your coverage or charge you extra because you have a pre-existing condition. This rule does not apply to the people who had an individual insurance coverage prior to November 2010 (Carroll, 2014). Because Great Britain has universal coverage, people do not have to worry about being denied coverage base on their pre-existing conditions.

Rain is a natural occurrence and in Miami County, Ohio the average precipitation rate is approximately 38 inches a year. The average yearly rain fall across the United States is 36.5 inches yearly; they are close in comparison (Sperling’s Best Places, 2015). However, if rain comes down quickly or in large quantities a flood can occur. In Ohio during the year of 2005, a major disaster was declared by the president because of damage from mudslides and floods (City-Data.com, 2015). I chose flooding as a natural disaster to explore. I will discuss the different stages of a disaster in this paper.

The role of the professional nurse in today's healthcare setting continues to expand as our healthcare delivery system in the United States changes. Historically, nurses have delivered care in a system that has been "illness" centered. Increases in knowledge of disease, coupled with a desire to decrease the costs of delivering health care have shifted the U.S. model of care to one of prevention (IOM, 2010, p. 1-1). The professional nurse continues to have eight interrelated roles in caring for their patients. The eight roles, which will be further explored in this paper, are that of caregiver, advocate, critical thinker, teacher, communicator, manager/administrator/executive, researcher, and rehabilitator.

The growing cost of prescription drug pose a problem for the uninsured, these patients with a limited income find themselves debating between filling their prescriptions or feeding their family. It is important as practitioner to take the time to go over the prescriptions with the patients to determine whether the medications cost will be the reason to compliance issues. The four-dollar generic medications will help patient to comply with their treatment plan and avoid the worsening of their condition. As stated in the Chain drug Review (2012)“The generic drug utilization rate is likely to grow as Americans increasingly seek ways of lowering health care costs and as more branded drugs begin to face the expirations of their

Russell Douglas Brindley did send in a Health Insurance letter that contains a confirmation of health coverage. However, this letter did not contain an expiration date for coverage. This lack of a health insurance coverage termination date is due to the employee not having an exact termination date for working at Valley Forge National Historical Park.

Stanhope, M. Lancaster, J. (2006). Foundations of nursing in community health: community-oriented practice 2nd edition. St. Louis, Missouri: Mosby Elsevier.

Education is the key in decreasing the risk factors for heart disease in general public. Cardiovascular disease accounts for one in three deaths annually n the United States (Luckhaupt & Calvert, 2014). Therefore, community nurses need to take the extra step and travel to local businesses, schools and facilities to do teaching and motivate the community for healthier lifestyles. Expanding new health programs is one way to induce lifestyle changes in the community. It takes dedication from the community health nurse to make healthier communities

The role of a Community Nurse is multi-functional, their goal is to promote health, to help in prolonging life and is essential in preventing and tracking communicable diseases. In addition, they are instrumental in educating the community in risk factors, preventing diseases and promoting self- care. Furthermore, community nurses collaborate with several health providers such as; Doctor’s, the Center for Disease Control (CDC), along with senior centers, environmental control agencies and other, just to name a few. In doing so, they can facilitate in tracking, preventing, and promote health in their community (Nies & McEwen, 2015). The purpose of this paper is to discuss both the infant mortality and heroin deaths in Franklin County, Ohio and how community nursing are addressing this issue. According to Healthy People 2020, there have been significant strides met in decreasing the death rate in cardiovascular disease and stroke, but the overall disparities in health care for all people remain, especially in the area of infant mortality