Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)

Ijeoma Igbokwe   3 posts  Re:Topic 2 DQ 1   The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) was passed into legislation in March of 2010. Identify the impact of this legislation on your nursing practice by choosing two key nursing provisions outlined in the American Nurses Association “Key Provisions Related to Nursing” summary at http://www.rnaction.org/site/DocServer/KeyProvisions_Nursing-PublicLaw.pdf?docID=1241&verID=1.

Discuss how these two provisions have impacted, or will impact, your current practice of nursing. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act sometimes called “Affordable Care Act” or “Obamacare” is a law that provides numerous rights and protections making health coverages easier to understand and more accessible and affordable to people.

This law provides a wider Medicaid coverage to people with low income (Health care.gov, n.d) According to the summary, nurses hold vital roles in health care system, in other to transform the health care services, the issues facing nursing profession must be addressed. The two key provisions related to nursing outlined in American Nurses Association summary are “Nursing Workforce” and “Nurse Home Visitation Services” Nursing Workforce Nursing like any other professions needs financial support to improve nursing training, education, and practice. T

he Nursing Workforce Development program helps in recruiting new nurses, encouraging nurses hired to advance in education by providing financial assistance in scholarships and grants to nurses, for advanced nursing education (American Nurses Association), so that nurses are better prepared to deliver high quality care to patients and to serve the community better.

This program also helps to direct the registered nurses to areas of nursing needs to ensure nurses are adequately available to meet every need of the community members, whether in the hospitals, health centers, nursing homes or patients’ homes (American Nurses Association). This program will attract more people to nursing profession thereby solving the problem of nurses’ shortage and encourage nurses to go back to school for upgrade, without worrying about taking up more jobs to afford school fees, because they could qualify for grants or scholarships. Nurse Home Visitation Services.

This program authorizes the federal and the states to provide financial supports to fund nurse home visitation coverages for maternal, infant, and early childhood interventions (American Nurses Association). This program would ensure continuity of patient’s care, follow-up, and more importantly provides opportunity for patients’ nursing needs to be met in the comfort of patient’s homes which is a familiar environment, and less stressful for the family members, who would have to commute to and from the hospital. This program not only benefits the patients, but also benefits nurses who have options of working outside healthcare facilities, where scheduling is more flexible. With the flexible of the schedule, nurses balance family, work, and

education.

Reference

American Nurses Association. “Key Provisions Related to Nursing”. Retrieved from http://www.rnaction.org/site/Docserver/KeyProvisions_Nursing-PublicLaw.pdf?doclD=1241&verID=

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