Government Directing Nursing and Healthcare
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Where and how is the government directing our nursing and healthcare? How have these changes affected your practice or way of thinking? Where do you think it should be directing nursing and isn’t and where do you think it is and shouldn’t? It should be interesting to hear from everyone as we have several different backgrounds represented!
Professor Sherman
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The government passed a bill into law, The Affordable Care Act of 2010, that clearly outlined the new healthcare system’s various structures. These structures came with opportunities for new roles. The forms also targeted improving the access, quality, and value of healthcare services across the country. Under the Act, nurses had a vital role in transforming the health care system to achieve high quality, more accessibility, and value-driven conditions for the ill people.
As a practicing nurse, these changes came with a lot of changes in my career. For instance, The Affordable Act of 2010 placed my demands and that of other health professionals as a top priority and created a more patient-centered system. This legislation began a lengthy procedure of moving the American health care system to better-specialized care (Paguyo, 2020). The system has reduced uncertain events in hospitals like the mostly acquired infections in the hospital. This change protects all health care practitioners during their roles in offering services. The changes also allowed nurses to address their needs by their numbers, adaptive capacities, and nursing knowledge. Health care provision under the law tapped the traditional strength under the nursing profession.
Alternatively, the government is prolonged to adjust to the new technology in healthcare provision and is yet to bring some of the law of this Act to practice. The government is also pushing down it’s funding to the most affordable nursing care like Medicaid and Medicare, which the most significant American population depends on (The future of nursing). The broader community is middle- and low-income earners that rely on such services in healthcare from the government, and cutting down such funds adversely affects the citizens. This is a direction that the government should not take, yet it is on the verge to pass that into law.
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Paguyo, N. A. (2020). Healthcare for All Americans: Healthcare Crisis USA—A Comprehensive Solution. Nelson A Paguyo, MD.
Transforming practice – The future of nursing – NCBI bookshelf. (n.d.). National Center for Biotechnology Information. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK209871/