Transcript Susan C. Reinhard, RN, PhD, FAAN

Susan C. Reinhard, RN, PhD, FAAN
Senior Vice President and Director
AARP Public Policy Institute
Chief Strategist, Center to Champion Nursing in
America
Strategic Advisory Committee
Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action
IFN Team at AARP – Providing Campaign Coordination and Technical Assistance
Education
Hospitals & Health Systems
Data/Research
Scope of
Practice
Engage partners to
implement
recommendations
that improve patient
care quality, access
& value.
Leadership
Inter-professional
Teams
Strategies
Collaborations
Communications
Research
Monitoring
Access and Barriers to Care
“Consumers deserve high quality, convenience, value and expanded
choice in the providers who deliver their core primary care services”
(John Rother, AARP, 2010)
Strategies
Inform, engage and motivate
government, payers and business in
expanding practice opportunities and
payment for the full range of primary
care providers.
Outcomes
All states remove barriers to
APRNs practicing to full extent by
2020.
Position APRNs as a high quality choice
for consumers through effective
outreach and marketing.
Identify federal levers to incentivize
states to modernize state scope of
practice laws.
By 2020, payers establish
payment policies that recognize
consumer choice across the
range of primary care providers.
How CCNA Operates: State-Based Work
•CCNA State Teams
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•Website
•Respond to AARP State Office requests (mostly scope of
practice) such as providing background information on
•Restrictive collaboration
•Duplicative oversight of APRN practice
•Controlled substances
•Reimbursement
How CCNA Operates: Federal-Level Work
First “phase” of federal advocacy agenda created early based on need for
improved federal funding for nursing education
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•Saw health reform as vehicle to win this funding - Medicare GNE
Consumer perspective - consumers such as AARP members need highly educated nurses
Next phase is to remove barriers to APRN care
•AARP Policy Book update
•AARP convened NP Roundtable
•Federal barriers to APRN care – home health care, hospice, admission physical in SNF,
hospital privileges, reimbursement
Advocacy is done by AARP staff – Winifred Quinn, Senior Legislative Representative and
Peter Reinecke, consultant
Updated AARP Policy Book Language
re: Scope of Practice
March 2010
Current state nurse practice acts and accompanying rules should
be interpreted and/or amended where necessary to allow APRNs
to fully and independently practice as defined by their education
and certification.
Scope
of
Practice
Resources
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are available on
www.championnursing.org
•Access to Care and Advanced Practice Nurses: A Review of
Southern U.S. Practice Laws
•Improving Access to Primary Care: The Growing Role of
Advanced Practice Registered Nurses
•Consumer Access and Barriers to Primary Care: PhysicianNurse Practitioner Restrictive Collaboration Requirements
by State (MAP)