Capitol Beat

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Recently, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a Request for Information (RFI) entitled Make Your Voice Heard: Promoting Efficiency and Equity Within CMS Programs. These recommendations also support ANA’s legislative advocacy as we encourage lawmakers to support H.R.

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Capitol Beat

APRIL 4, 2022

Title VIII Nursing Workforce Development Programs received $294.972 million for FY 2023. million increase is across three Title VIII programs including: $25 million increase to Advance Nursing Education to grow and diversify maternal and perinatal health workforce. $2 A few specific areas of interest include: $5.85

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Capitol Beat

MARCH 15, 2022

Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners Program – The bill includes $13 million, an increase of $4 million within the total for Advanced Education Nursing to expand training and certification of RNs, APRNs, and Forensic Nurses to practice as sexual assault nurse examiners. Agencies Health and Human Services : $108.3

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Scrubs

APRIL 20, 2023

Before you can make your private practice dreams come true, you need to become a nurse practitioner, which requires you to complete a master’s-level nurse practitioner program. Nurse practitioner degrees advance the knowledge and skill you have gained during your nurse education and experience.

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American Nurse

JANUARY 2, 2024

GFH identified HAPI reduction as a priority because PIs staged at 2 or greater serve as nurse-sensitive indicators that affect a patient’s pain and suffering and outcomes and also impact payment for care. The existing HAPI prevention education included lengthy modules assigned to each nurse. worldwide. • Adv Skin Wound Care.

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The Nursing Site

MARCH 18, 2024

The hospital, Vanderbilt University Hospital, neglected to report the Sentinel Event (death) to Medicare and consequently filed no Plan of Correction which led to a renewed focus on the event as possible Medicare fraud. Protocols were ignored.

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The Nursing Site

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Nurses must follow the protocols to legal and ethical guidelines in their jurisdiction, which may prohibit any form of active euthanasia or assisted suicide. Editor’s Notes: Please note that Medicare has specific rules regarding this subject and state laws can vary and may be updated frequently as this issue evolves.

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Capitol Beat

APRIL 16, 2024

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) from finalizing its proposed long-term care safe staffing regulation. ANA sent a letter to House Leadership expressing its concerns about the bill’s adverse impact on the nursing workforce and the importance of ensuring safe staffing in long-term care facilities.

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American Nurse

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Takeaways: The 1990 Federal Patient Self Determination Act requires that Medicare- and Medicaid-funded healthcare organizations follow state laws related to advance directives. The act requires that Medicare- and Medicaid-funded healthcare organizations, such as hospitals and nursing homes, follow state laws related to advance directives.

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American Nurse

JUNE 13, 2024

These were: Individual determinants Education Experience Nurses’ value Impact of role models Factors influencing individual determinants were age, gender, religion, satisfaction with the nursing major, personal values, and use of coping strategies. The essentials: Core competencies for professional nursing education.

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Amercan Journal of Nursing

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Jasmine Travers The pandemic shone a troubling spotlight on the unnecessary suffering resulting from substandard conditions in nursing homes. On Sep 6, 2023, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published a proposed rule for their widely anticipated minimum staffing requirements for long-term care facilities.

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Capitol Beat

DECEMBER 22, 2022

This funding will directly impact the Advanced Education Nursing program to expand training and certification of RNs, APRNs, and Forensic Nurses to practice as sexual assault nurse examiners. Nursing also received nearly $5 million for Nurse Education, Practice, Quality and Retention efforts to address the RN shortage.

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Capitol Beat

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Ensuring a robust nursing workforce requires new, well-trained nurses. We urge Congress to invest in nursing education to ensure that a new generation of nurses are ready to work in the changing health care landscape.

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American Nurse

OCTOBER 2, 2023

In terms of regulation and reimbursement , regulators and payors, such as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, still penalize acute care facilities for hospital-acquired pressure injuries. We must advocate for policies consistent with evidence-based care as well as adequate reimbursements and coding.

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American Nurse

JUNE 7, 2023

More recent history The social reforms of the Great Society in the 1960s aimed to address racial, urban, and rural inequities through increased spending in education, transportation, and medical care. x American Association of Colleges of Nursing. The Essentials: Core Competencies for Professional Nursing Education; 2008.

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American Nurse

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The association continues to engage with the Biden-Harris administration and key federal agencies on nursing priorities, including promoting and protecting the nursing workforce, removing practice barriers for advanced practice RNs (APRNs), and achieving payment parity for nurses.

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American Nurse

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services doesn’t reimburse costs associated with healthcare-associated CAUTI, so prevention has financial implications. Nurses contribute significantly to the evidence-based care of patients with UTI and in prevention efforts.

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Minority Nurse

MAY 14, 2024

On these committees, nurses would serve so a legislative body is not dictating it. I think that this is an appropriate approach coupled with compelling Medicare participating facilities to set staffing levels and monitor outcomes. And that is going to be a barrier, I believe, to our profession being able to grow.

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The Relentless School Nurse

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

. – The OpEd Nurses In the early days of President Trump’s second term, a series of executive orders have been issued that significantly impact health care policy in the United States. Donna Gaffney, DNSc, PMHCNS-BC, FAAN, is a psychotherapist, advanced practice psychiatric mental health nurse, educator, and author.

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