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a) Discuss how the CMS reimbursement rules for never events required a shift in the patient care delivery model in inpatient facilities.

b) Choose one legislator on the state or federal level who is also a nurse, and discuss the importance of their role as advocate for improving health care delivery. What specific bill(s) have they sponsored or supported that has/have influenced health care?

Solution

1. the center for medicare and medicaid services (CMS) today annpounced that it is investigating ways that medicare help to reduce the occurrences of \"never events\"- serious and expensive erroes in the provision of health care services that should never happen. \"Never events\", like surgery on wrong body part, cause serious injury to beneficiaries and result in increased cost to the medicare program to treat the consequences of the error.

CMS polocies should also affects the liability risk of any person providing inpatient care, regardless of wheatherna federal payer is involved. to prevent CMS reimbursment decision from becaming the functional equivalent of a instruction, physcians, need to raise the level of precautions they employ against \"never Event\" complication.

the \"Never Events\" covered under the CMS payment policy can be organized into different categories:

2. The CMS reimburesement policy offers nurses an opportunity to take a leadership role in preventing these avoidable incidents.

There shiuld be a link between nrseing and politics, according to Mary Ann daily, RN, DN.SC, a republician memeber of the pennsylvania house of represntatives.

\" the legislature make many laws that govern the actual day- to- day duties of a nurse, and those laws may affect nursing care in negative manner\" She said.

\"I certainly see the word through the eyes of the nurse, eeven though itis been a long time since i\'ve been in Active nursing,\" said Helen Thomson, RN,a democratic member of the calofonia state assembly.

they have a good world veiw\" thomson said to her fellow nurses,\" they are compassionate. they care about people. they can make tough decision. they are good listner, and the art of politics is good listening.