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Registration is Now Live! Click Here to Register Online H.R. 4993 / S. 2814, the Home Health Care Planning Improvement Act of 2010 Participate in the Virtual Capitol Hill Day! Details can be found in the ACNP Action Alert The Nurse Practitioner Roundtable is joining together to ensure that nurse practitioners are allowed to order home health services under Medicare. H.R. 4993 / S. 2814, the Home Health Care Planning Improvement Act of 2010, as introduced by Representative Allyson Schwartz in the House of Representatives and Senator Susan Collins in the Senate would eliminate archaic restrictions in Medicare reimbursement that prevent nurse practitioners from ACNP is urging nurse practitioners and other supporters to call, email or fax their members of Congress in support of this bill.
ACNP supports the Naitional Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners' (NAPNAP) Position Statement The Acute Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioner. ACNP Online Learning Center - Featuring over 80 Clinical Conference CE Opportunities! Visit the Online Learning Center and sign up to view new CE opportunities Free CE Opportunity - New Webinars Available!
Free CE Opportunity - Gout in the Primary Care Setting: What You and Your Patients Need to Know ACNP Leadership in the Media Dr. Kenneth Miller, Past ACNP President and current Treasurer was asked to speak on NPR’s segment “Tell Me More” on April 28 about nurse practitioners’ role in the current primary care physician shortage. Dr. Miller emphasized the range of safe, effective, high quality care provided by nurse practitioners. The audio interview may be found here. Past ACNP President Susan Apold, PhD, ANP, discussing Nurse Practitioners, the elimination of statutory collaboration and physician supervision on Fox & Friends. Dr. Apold is the Chair of the ACNP Public Policy Committee and is a strategic planning consultant to the Board of Directors. (YouTube link) Mary Naylor Appointed to Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) Gene L. Dodaro, Acting Comptroller General of the United States and head of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), today announced the appointment of four new members and the reappointment of two existing members to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC). The official announcement will be Mary Naylor, PhD, RN, FAAN, is the Marian S. Ware Professor in Gerontology and Director of the NewCourtland Center for Transitions and Health at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. Since 1989, Dr. Naylor has led an interdisciplinary program of research designed to improve the quality of care, decrease unnecessary hospitalizations, and reduce health care costs for vulnerable community-based elders. Dr. Naylor is also the National Program Director for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation program, Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative, aimed at generating, disseminating, and translating research to understand how nurses contribute to quality patient care. She co-chaired the National Quality Forum’s Steering Committee on Nursing Care Performance Measures. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine. Dr. Naylor received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and her BS in Nursing from Villanova University. Home Health Care Planning Improvement Act Introduced On April 13, 2010, Rep. Allyson Schwartz (D- PA) introduced HR 4993, the Home Health Care Planning Improvement Act to allow physician assistants (PA), nurse practitioners (NP), clinical nurse specialists and certified nurse midwives to order home health services for Medicare beneficiaries. In November 2009, Sen. Susan Collins (R- ME) Introduced S 2815, the Home Health Care Planning Improvement Act of 2009. Maryland Passes Legislation to Improve Access to Nurse Practitioner Care The Nurse Practitioner Association of Maryland (NPAM), the first State Affiliate member to join the ACNP, and the Maryland Coalition of Nurse Practitioners, worked together this year with legislators and the state medical society to pass legislation to facilitate NP practice. For years, Maryland NPs were required to produce a cumbersome “written collaborative agreement" usually necessitating multiple physician signatures and a lengthy approval process by a special committee and two licensing Boards - each time an NP sought employment or even a volunteer position. NP employment in Maryland was frequently delayed 2 to 6 months. Under the new legislation, NPs need only sign an attestation to the Board of Nursing that they will refer patients to or consult with a collaborating physician when the patient’s condition requires physician care. The shortage of primary care providers in Maryland is one of the worst in the nation, so legislation that eliminates delay of employment of NPs is timely. Nursing Community Letter to AMA Scope of Practice Data Series: Nurse Practitioners Twenty-seven nursing organizations worked collaboratively to develop a letter to the American Medical Association regarding the draft of their Scope of Practice Data Series: Nurse Practitioners. This collective effort is only the first step. At present, the nursing community is developing tools and resources for NPs to use locally that emphasize the high quality, safe, and effective care provided by nurse practitioners. View and Download a copy of the Nursing Community's Letter to the AMA. View and Download a copy of the AMA Scope of Practice Data Series: Nurse Practitioners.
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There IS a solution to the primary care shortage! Click here to find the answer. AMERICAN NURSES CREDENTIALING CENTER (ANCC) LEGISLATIVE/PUBLIC POLICY UPDATES 2010 Public Policy Agenda 2010 ACNP COMMITTEES
The JNP is now available online, where you can access all articles, continuing education, ACNP news, etc. If your copy of the JNP has a card attached asking you to please return it, please do so. By returning the postcards, it will allow the publisher to hold down postage rates, and include additional pages of content in the journal.
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