Health Care Reform
This President passed the ACA in 2010, which was intended to improve health care quality, lower costs & increase access to care.
Who is President Obama?
Determines eligibility, issues licenses, governs policies, & reviews disciplinary cases for all nurses, LPNs, RNs, & APRNs.
What is the State Board of Nursing?
This organization developed the Magnet Recognition Program & the Pathway to Excellence
What is The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC)?
Uses a broad range of standardized questions that hospitals can use to compare their operations and outcomes with their competitor
What is the Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey tool
To qualify for age-based federal Medicare coverage, a client must be at least this old.
What is 65?
138% below_______level eligibility for the Medicaid
What is poverty
This agency assesses healthcare standards & helps hospitals comply with actual government regulations
What is the Joint Commission?
Decreased fall rates, improved skin integrity, higher client satisfaction scores, & demonstrate enhanced client communication
What is Magnet status
Time range when clients receive a phone call, a mailed survey, an automated message, or a mailed survey with a follow-up phone call.
What is between 48 hours and 6 weeks HCAHPS post-discharge, random clients are issued a survey.
This specific part of Medicare covers doctors’ services, physical therapy, occupational therapy, and some home health care.
What is Part B?
A client lacks knowledge of where to buy affordable healthcare
What is the exchange platform for ACA-subsidized insurance?
Reviews policies, observes, & interviews administrators & staff to ensure quality & safe client care & identifies areas for improvement.
What is the Joint Commission?
What are the 5 levels of excellence of a model Magnet Program?
Healthcare facilities use this survey (not HCAHPS) instrument to evaluate healthcare delivery and client satisfaction.
Who is Press Ganey?
While Part A may be prepaid through taxes, clients must pay Parts B and D monthly.
What are premiums?
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) intent
What is to improve quality while lowering costs and increasing access to care?
Adequate nurse staffing, suicide risk reduction, & reducing bedsores are established JC standards
What are National Performance Goals (NPGs)?
Improved nurse satisfaction, interprofessional collaboration, & to champion high-quality nursing teamwork & less patient turnover in Healthcare organization
What is the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) Pathway to nursing excellence program
Unlike the HCAHPS survey, the Press Ganey survey is generally administered by this type of entity and focuses more heavily on internal quality improvement.
What is a private third-party vendor?
This Medicare part offers extra coverage designed to lower prescription medication costs.
What is Part D?
Another focus of the ACA is disease prevention.
What is preventive care?
An organization's focus on improving healthcare quality by developing evidence-based standards of care.
What is the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)
Identifies organizations with quality outcomes, client care excellence, and innovative nursing practice
What is a Magnet program?
These specific metrics, included in a Press Ganey instrument, measure how long a client waits in the facility before being seen.
What are wait times in the clinic?
What is Part A?