The PPACA discussion Please write a paragraph responding to the discussion bellow. Add citations and references in alphabetical order.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) of2010 gave nurses new opportunities to deliver care and play an importantrole in leading the changes. It showed that nurses needed to do more toprevent disease; provide chronic care management to and aging, sicker, anddiverse population; and offer comfort and compassionate end-of-life care.There were nine challenges that this brought forward to help make thechanges to better the health care system. The few that I choose to talkabout are technologies, developing leaders, and being at thetable.
Embracingtechnology, we need to use the ever growing technologies of today. Usingsimulation labs in nursing curriculum and online classrooms to betterprepare our nurses and make it more available. We need to continue toadvance the Electronic medical records; this can be used to gain patientpertinent medical records from facility to facility. Also as nurseswe need to have be at the table picking the best, user friendly,comprehensive technologies.
Beingat the table and developing leadership can go together. We need to promoteour nurses to be the leaders that they have been trained to be,whether this bee at the bedside or in the boardroom. Physicians andadministrators must support the nurses in these efforts. We need totake that leadership to the table and to the boards to ensure that patientsafety, quality of care, and access to health care. We need to say “yes”when presented with the opportunity to be an active member on national orstate boards and committees.
Reference:
AmericanNurse Today. (2010) Nursing’srole in healthcare reform. Found at https://www.americannursetoday.com/nursings-role-in-healthcare-reform/