Question

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 topic material "Nursing and Health Reform." Discuss how these two provisions have impacted, or will impact, your current practice of nursing.

Answer 1

The Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act (PPACA) established as law by the President Obama dated March 23, 2010. This has entirely reformed the health care system over the next decades. The law had a great impact on health care providers, insurers and ultimate patients by reforming the Medicare facilities and payment policies and had highly affected the nursing community as well as the offered facilities..

Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act emphasize on 3 main aspects of the law:

• Law related to the nursing workforce
• Provisions of payment reform
• Facility specific laws

It focuses on conducting regular training programmes for the nursing professionals in hospitals and other related sites to offer a better primary care. There are also provisions for advanced practice nurses for pursuing a doctorate and other advanced degree s in their respective fields.

This law has also focused on nurse education and practice along with the particular retention grants. It advocates about conduction of advanced training practices for primary/preventive care, translational care as well as specific chronic care management. These practices are centered for, Medicare eligible population.

There should be various community based care settings and accredited nursing centers to fulfill these aspects. It has also established specified Nurse-Managed Health Clinics to provide comprehensive primary care neglecting income or insurance status of patients.

Thus the above discussed Nursing and Health Reforms has highly impacted the current scenario of nursing practice.