Increases total loan amount for nurses education from $13,000 to $17,000 at 5% interest.
What is Nursing Student Loan Program
100
A new program under ACA to improve quality of care by compensating providers based on patient outcomes rather than volume of services.
What is Pay-for-Performance?
100
Result of bringing more patients into the US healthcare system. Projected to be 1.2 million by 2020.
What is a nursing shortage?
100
The year that the Affordable Care Act or "Obamacare" was signed into law
What is 2010?
100
A resource to Congress; high priority is nursing workforce capacity.
What is the National Healthcare Workforce Commission?
200
An ACA component that allocates $30 million to support academic training programs for nurse midwives and nurse practitioners.
What is the Advanced Nursing Education Expansion Program.
200
The care model is set up like a team, that is patient-centered, where all their care is coordinated, and it’s focused on quality and safety. This is being piloted with chronically ill Medicaid patients.
What is a medical home?
200
New financial incentives for primary care providers treating Medicare patients will increase the need for these.
What is geriatric nurses?
200
The year that the federal Affordable Care Act fully takes effect.
What is 2014?
200
Increases the payment rate for nurse midwives for covered services.
What is Access to Certified Nurse Midwives Act of 2013?
300
Grants for advanced degrees, including nursing, that emphasize team-based service, public health, epidemiology, and emergency preparedness and response.
What is the United States Public Health Service Act
300
Clinics managed by APRN's that provide primary/wellness care to underserved or vulnerable populations.
What is a Nurse-Managed Health Clinics?
300
First major insurer to recognize nurse practitioners as primary care providers and reimburses them for their services.
What is Aetna Insurance?
300
What document did the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Institute of Medicine launch?
What is "The Future of Nursing Report"?
300
Expands repayments and scholarships to nurses working as nursing faculty for 2 years in accredited schools.
What is the Loan Repayment and Scholarship Program?
400
Provides funding to nursing students who plan to train and then work in the field of geriatrics.
What is the Comprehensive Geriatric Grant Program.
400
Providers are reimbursed a set fee for an episode of care.
What is a bundled payment?
400
Projected to be the fastest growing profession between 2008 and 2018.
What is a registered nurse (RN)?
400
Help manage transition from nursing school to practice and help new graduates further develop the skills needed to deliver safe, quality care.
What is a transition to practice residency programs?
400
Grants to train NP's in primary care to work in federally-qualified health centers or nurse-managed health clinics.
What is Family Nurse Practitioner Training?
500
Stipends for racial/ethnic minorities with diplomas or AD's to enter bridge or degree completion programs. Grants for pre-entry preparation, advanced education preparation and retention.
What is Workforce Diversity Grants?
500
Groups of doctors, hospitals, and other health care providers, who come together voluntarily to give coordinated high quality care to their Medicare patients.
What are Accountable Care Organizations (ACO)?
500
Defines the activities that a qualified nurse may perform.
What is scope of practice?
500
A nongovernmental organization that provides unbiased authoritative advice to decision makers and the public
What is the Institute of Medicine?
500
A nurse retention program, that includes career ladders and funding for nurse internships and residencies.
What is Nurse Education, Practice, and Retention Grant?