Across
- 1. a US law aimed at reforming the American health care system with its main focus on providing more Americans with access to affordable health insurance, improving the quality of health care and health insurance, regulating the health insurance industry, and reducing health care spending in the US.
- 4. Abbreviation for the committee involved with the policy making amongst ANA.
- 6. Requirements for this advanced degree include completing an accredited program, obtaining national certification and completing a specified number of clinical hours
- 8. Position in which nurses may hold in representation of region or state.
- 9. Responsible for self and others behaviors and outcomes in one’s professional role.
- 11. First providers to see clearly when and how the health care system is not effectively meeting patient needs
- 14. Created to evaluate the quality and service of practice. (minimal expectations for providing safe patient care).
- 17. A person who was born during the demographic Post–World War II baby boom between the years 1946 and 1964.
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- 2. Abbreviation for the AACN's 2006 proposal to be the new standard for advanced practice nurses by 2015
- 3. An expert in a defined area of knowledge and practice in a selected clinical area of nursing
- 5. This level of nurse is more likely to obtain a master's degree or higher
- 7. Agreement amongst states to share the licensure terms for nurses' scope of practice.
- 10. The right to make a decision and take control within the nursing scope of practice
- 12. Being entrusted with particular functions based off of gained nursing knowledge which leads to specific developed competencies
- 13. This group now outnumbers African Americans as the largest minority group
- 15. Allows for control of practice and central beliefs (values, duties, and commitments)
- 16. Region projected to have the highest nursing shortage