Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
(PPACA)
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) was
passed into legislation in March of 2010. Identify the impact of this
legislation on your nursing practice by choosing two key nursing
provisions outlined in the topic material “Nursing and Health
Reform.”
Discuss how these two provisions have impacted, or will impact,
your current practice of nursing.
Nursing and Health Reform
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) was
signed into law by President Obama on March 23, 2010. This law
will enact sweeping changes to almost every facet of the health
care system over the next ten years. The law makes changes that
will impact providers, insurers, consumers, Medicare & Medicaid,
and payment policies. For the purposes of this document we
wanted to provide readers with an overview of those provisions in
the new law that will impact the nursing community as well as
their facilities. This article is intended to provide an overview of
those sections of the law most relevant to WOCN members.
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). The
information focuses on three main aspects of the law: nursing
workforce provisions, payment reform provisions, and facility
specific provisions. Each provision is given a brief summary and

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