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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act appears to focus on health prevention and establishing affordable insurance for all Americans. As a future nurse practitioner, I feel this Act will affect my practice in a variety of ways. To best understand these impacts I have divided my thoughts into pros and cons of the PPAC Act. To start, the pros of this Act for me include health promotion and prevention, nursing tuition reimbursement, and granting access to healthcare for patients who may not have the opportunity for health insurance prior to the Act initiation. Koh and Sebelius (2010) report some examples of covered services for patients to include “screening for breast cancer, cervical cancer, and colorectal cancer; screening for human …show more content…

With the PPAC Act, these Americans can obtain the disease prevention and management they deserve. Through tuition reimbursement programs, the PPAC Act puts nurses and nurse practitioners in rural or underdeveloped areas to provide this care for patients who may not have the opportunity for healthcare otherwise (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act). The Act also provides services to alleviate tobacco dependence and obesity since these two topics are of major health concerns to United States citizens (Koh & Sebelius, 2010). “The initiative aims to unify national dialogue about health, motivate action, and encourage new directions in health promotion, providing a public health roadmap and compass for the country” (Koh, …show more content…

If millions of Americans will now have easy access to healthcare, then the question I must ask is are there millions of nurses who will be joining the workforce? The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (2017) published some data on their website that shows a likely major nursing shortage between 2009-2030, which is projected to be serious shortage in the South. As a future nurse practitioner, and one in the South, I feel like this shortage will only contribute to poor quality of care, nursing burn out, and poor patient outcomes. It is noteworthy that the potential student loan repayment options under the PPAC Act could generate an increase in our profession. Another con as I see it, is the increase in paperwork and quality reporting to fuel Medicare reimbursement. As a nurse manager, I know this con all too well. I spend countless hours on a computer generating reports, writing down statistics and inputting data for quality measures. Countless hours that are taken away from patient care.
Overall, I do feel like the idea of PPAC Act is a great one and it appears one that is probably here to stay. With Trump in office now, I am anxiously awaiting how any changes will affect my professional

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