In a reflection of 450-600 words, explain how you see yourself fitting into the following IOM Future of Nursing recommendations: Recommendation 4: Increase the proportion of nurses with a baccalaureate degree to 80% by 2020. Recommendation 5: Double the number of nurses with a doctorate by 2020. Recommendation 6: Ensure that nurses engage in lifelong learning. Identify your options in the job market based on your educational level. How will increasing your level of educati...

As the country focuses on the restructuring of the U.S. health care delivery system, nurses will continue to play an important role. It is expected that more and more nursing jobs will become available out in the community, and fewer will be available in acute care hospitals. Write an informal presentation (500-700 words) to educate nurses about how the practice of nursing is expected to grow and change. Include the concepts of continuity or continuum of care, accountable care organizations...

Discuss how the CMS reimbursement rules for never events required a shift in the patient care delivery model in inpatient facilities. Solution: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) declines Medicare reimbursement for eleven healthcare-acquired conditions and prohibits health care centres from charging the patients directly for these incidents that ought to never take place (never events). This means that the liability patient falls regarding inpatient facilities that incur expe...

Choose one legislator on the state or federal level who is also a nurse, and discuss the importance of their role as advocate for improving health care delivery. What specific bill(s) have they sponsored or supported that has/have influenced health care? Solution: Eddie Bernice Johnson is one of the state and federal legislators. Eddie Bernice Johnson is from the state of Texas and is on her 13th term serving as a congress representative and representing Texas's 30th congressional district...

What is the difference between a DNP and a PhD in nursing? Which of these would you choose to pursue if you decide to continue your education to the doctoral level? Solution: In selecting the degrees for advancement of nursing practice, both the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) and Doctorate of Philosophy (Ph.D.) programs offer terminal nursing degrees which differ from each in a number of ways. As stated by Allen (2018), the DNP program prepares nurses to become leaders and apply the evidence...

Discuss current research that links patient safety outcomes to ADN and BSN nurses. Based on some real-life experiences, do you agree or disagree with this research?  Solution: Over time, as the healthcare sector has continued to grow and advance, various researchers, practice leaders and policy makers have pin-pointed that education creates a significant impact and difference in the nursing practice. Education causes difference in patient safety and outcomes in a plethora of situations such as...

Describe one innovative health care delivery model that incorporates an interdisciplinary care delivery team. How is this advantageous to patient outcomes? Solution: Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) model supports the interdisciplinary care delivery as it is a collaboration among a hospital, primary care clinicians, specialists and all other health professionals who agree to act in accordance to joint responsibility for cost and quality of patient care delivery. According to Stern (2015),...

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.  Solution: The Affordable Care Act affects the field of nursing in various ways as it includes a number of ambitious reforms that are b...

In a formal paper of 1,000-1,250 words you will discuss the work of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Committee Initiative on the Future of Nursing and the Institute of Medicine research that led to the IOM report, "Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health." Identify the importance of the IOM "Future of Nursing" report related to nursing practice, nursing education and nursing workforce development. What is the role of state-based action coalitions and how do they advance goals of th...

What is the role of health care reform in shifting the focus from a disease-oriented health care system toward one of wellness and prevention, and how does nursing fit into this shift? Solution: According to Bauer, Briss, Goodman, and Bowman (2014), a renewed focus on prevention and wellness policies in the US has caught the attention of policy makers, scholars, as well as healthcare practitioners over the last couple of years.  As stressed by Dietz, Douglas, and Brownson (2016), out of 2 tril...