HEALTH CARE POLICY AND ECONOMICS.

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HEALTH CARE POLICY AND ECONOMICS
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Introduction:
The Affordable Care Act is aimed in order to increase the access to increase consumer
protections, insurance, highlight prevention and wellness, progress in quality and healthcare
system performance, also expand the healthcare workforce, and control the increasing health
care expenses (Chen et al., 2016). Whereas patient advocacy helps a person in decision
making and choosing a better treatment for themselves. The nurses play an important role in
both the policies (Sundqvist et al., 2016). The nurse plays the key aspect in providing a better
treatment and care with proper advocacy regarding the process to a person in need
(Heintzman et al., 2017). The assignment will focus on the reflection of a nurse and the role
they possess in a healthcare centre and care giving with accordance with the two policies.
Also how their role has been effected by the changes in the law and their future outcomes in
their field of work.
The Affordable Care Act and Patient Advocacy help in safe nursing practice:
The Affordable Care Act (2014) ensures healthcare promotion which is designed
according to coordination, arrangement and value-based healthcare representations. Value-
based healthcare care helps the healthcare providers to maintain a healthy population and a
disease free community by aiming on the beneficiary outcomes of the healthcare provided.
This act also helps to build a healthcare system which focuses on the wellness, inhibition,
decreasing disease reoccurrence, and unnecessary healthcare costs (Wherry & Miller, 2016).
A Nurse plays a key role in this constituent of a better healthcare improvement. Nurses have
the knowledge and responsibility to influence a healthcare practice and policy as it stands in
the front line in provide treatment and care to a patient. Nurses are found to promote better
health conditions, navigate and understand any kind of illness, and prevent any further
complications or health burden.

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The American Nurses Association (ANA) defines the nursing practice as protecting,
promoting, and optimizing health and skills, preventing illness and accidents, decreasing
suffering, and advocating on behalf of the stakeholders of healthcare system (Tluczek et al.,
2018). The ANA also states the importance of patient advocacy in the Code of Ethics. It
guides the nurses to promote, advocate and protects the patient’s rights, health, and security
(Choi, 2015).
As a nurse, following the Affordable Care Act and Patient Advocacy ethics will help
in providing a safer and better healthcare service to the patients. The acts and ethic provides
the criteria and knowledge in order to understand and practice a better healthcare giving for
patient in need (Chen et al., 2016). It reduces the risk factors that are involved in a nursing
practice which might affect the life of a person such as, privacy, medication error and
negligence (Uberoi, Finegold & Gee, 2016). It helped me to understand the importance of
human dignity. In many medical condition, the patients and their families are found nervous,
confused and worried. As a nurse I will need to stay calm and understanding and it is my
responsibility to navigate them with the unfamiliar situation they are facing and
communicate. As a nurse it becomes my responsibility to educate the people regarding the
disease, its severity, the treatment process and the outcomes it has. The patient advocacy and
affordable care act provides the knowledge about discrimination free and equal distribution of
healthcare to the patients (Sundqvist et al., 2016). And being a nurse it becomes my
responsibility to make sure that I choose effective treatment process for patient focusing on
the problem they face and it should have a better, suffering free outcome.
Role of Patient Advocacy as a Nurse
As a Nurse, we are trained to increase access to healthcare and improve the quality of
care at low cost. We’ve advanced health care models which also includes nurse-managed