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.

APRN

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

Medicaid

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

Medicare

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.

Long Term Care

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.

Long Term Care

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. Guiding patients in advance care planning and assisting with the completion of advance directives falls under the scope of nursing practice.

Self-Care

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.

Medicaid

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.

Health Outcomes

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.

APRN

Registered Nursing

APRIL 24, 2025

Federal Exclusion Lists: Confirms the applicant is not excluded from Medicare/Medicaid participation ( OIG LEIE ). License and Certification Verification: Ensures the applicant holds valid, board-approved credentials. Abuse Registry Check: Searches databases for records of elder or patient abuse or neglect.

Licensing

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.

Long Term Care

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.

Medicare

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.

APRN

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.

Best Practices

Minority Nurse

MAY 14, 2024

I wanted to continue the work and so I came back home to Illinois because Illinois is a state that expanded Medicaid. I got a job working for a Medicaid managed care company in Chicago as the Senior Director for Strategy and Regulatory Affairs for a company called Next Level Health. Are you still there? That’s like the question!

Medicaid