Reforming US. Health Care Delivery System and Nurses' Role in Changing Environment
Examine changes introduced to reform or restructure the U.S. health care delivery system. In a 1,000-1,250 word paper, discuss action taken for reform and restructuring and the role of the nurse within this changing environment.
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Outline a current or emerging health care law or federal regulation introduced to reform or restructure some aspect of the health care delivery system. Describe the effect of this on nursing practice and the nurse's role and responsibility.
Discuss how quality measures and pay for performance affect patient outcomes. Explain how these affect nursing practice and describe the expectations and responsibilities of the nursing role in these situations.
Discuss professional nursing leadership and management roles that have arisen and how they are important in responding to emerging trends and in the promotion of patient safety and quality care in diverse health care settings.
Research emerging trends. Predict two ways in which the practice of nursing and nursing roles will grow or transform within the next five years to respond to upcoming trends or predicted issues in health care.
You are required to cite a minimum of three sources to complete this assignment. Sources must be published within the last 5 years, appropriate for the assignment criteria, and relevant to nursing practice.
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Introduction
The health status in the United States is evolving since a significant division of the populace is ageing, compelling the healthcare system to adopt a more patient-centered approach and the value-based models to effectually serve the needs of the patients (Fuchs, 2018). This paper aims to analyze the current healthcare law that seeks to reform the healthcare delivery system in California. In addition, the report put the impact of quality measures forwards and pay for performance on patient outcomes and nurses. Furthermore, this paper discussed how nursing and nursing roles would transform in future years.
Current or Emerging Health Care Law
The healthcare legislation in the United States has played a crucial role in the execution and administration of healthcare in State and Federal governments. Along these lines, there has been an extensive emphasis in California on passing healthcare legislation bills into law that intends to augment the healthcare quality in the State. The chief aim of this paper is to describe the bill passed by the Senate in California in the year 2015 to boost the quality of healthcare. The bill was named the "Single-Payer Health Care Bill" (Fuchs, 2018). In addition, the bill also aims to establish accessibility and equality within healthcare. Senator Ricardo Lara proposed the bill that sought to expand the scope of the Medi-Cal advantages to encompass undocumented children of age below 19 years.
This restructuring of the healthcare model will ensure that the nurses can make independent decisions to protect the patients' lives. In addition, it had improved the healthcare in California and at the same time ascertained that the nurses receive an adequate education, training as well as support in the wake of the rising populace of aging and patients with chronic illness. The Single-Payer Health Care Bill had endowed the nurses with the opportunity to expand their knowledge in healthcare and ethics. Under this legislation, they must provide care to a diversified population, including immigrants. Along these lines, the bill had enhanced the nurses' awareness regarding different cultures as the bill has expanded care to patients, not the citizens of California State (Fuchs, 2018). It had ascertained that the nurses perform their roles and responsibility by the resident and legal instructions.
Pay for Performance and Quality Measures
With the rising healthcare costs in the United States, various strategies were developed by the Medicaid and Medicare Services to control these costs. Along these lines, the Pay for Performance aimed to establish rewards for the healthcare organizations and providers who provide high-quality care to the patients. On the other hand, by means of quality measures devised in collaboration with the Agency for Healthcare.
Quality measures and pay for performance significantly impact patient outcomes since they tie reimbursement to the metric-driven outcomes and satisfaction of the patients. Therefore, it aligns the rewards with the quality of the services provided, leading to enhanced patient recovery due to efficacious medical interventions and minimizing Hospital Readmission (Peckham & Wallace, 2018). On the other hand, the pay for performance and quality measures also impact ...