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NAQC News

Photos from April 5 Symposium

NAQC Case Study - FPCN

NAQC Case Study - Life Long

NAQC Case Study - PMHC

NAQC September e-News---NAQC Selected to NPP

NAQC's Strategic Roadmap

NAQC Review of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

Learning Module on Health Literacy, University of Michigan School of Nursing and funded by the Kellogg Foundation

NAQC Public Comments on Proposed Rules Impacting Nurses and Patients

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; Establishment of Exchanges and Qualified Health Plans CMS-9989-P: RIN 0938-AQ67; 45 Fed. Reg. Part 155 and 156. July 15, 2011

HIPAA Privacy Rule Accounting of Disclosures Under the Health Information Technology for Economic and clinical Health Act (August 1, 2011)

Medicare Program: Methods for Assuring Access to Covered Medicaid Services (July 5, 2011)

Medicare Program: Proposed Changes to the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems for Acute Care Hospitals and the Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System and Fiscal Year 2012 Rates (June 20, 2011)

Medicare Program: Medicare Shared Savings Program: Accountable Care Organizations (June 6, 2011)

Medicare Program: Hospital Inpatient Value-Based Purchasing Program (March 8, 2011)

Policy and Health Care Quality Leadership

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (12/24/2009)

Quality & Safety Education for Nursing (QSEN): educational strategies that promote quality and safety competency development in nursing.

Related Articles:

  • Hahn, J. (2010). Integrating professional and political awareness into the curriculum. Nurse Educator, 35(3) 110-113.
  • Hahn, J. (2009). Power dynamics, health policy and politics. MEDSURG Nursing.18(3), 197-199.
  • Kurtzman ET, Dawson EM, Johnson JE, Sheingold BH. Nurses should drive health reform. Am J Nurs. 2010 Jan;110(1):11.
  • Kurtzman, ET. Unifying nursing's policy voice [Epub ahead of print]. Policy Polit Nurs Pract. 2009; Mar 25.
  • Kurtzman, ET. Planning a national nursing quality and safety alliance: strengthening nursing's policy voice. JONA. 2009;39:2:47-50.
  • Gardner, D. Ten Lessons in Collaboration. OJIN. 2005

Quality Measure Work

National Quality Forum: is a nonprofit organization that aims to improve the quality of healthcare for all Americans through setting national priorities and goals for performance improvement; endorsing national consensus standards for measuring and publicly reporting on performance; and promoting the attainment of national goals through education and outreach programs.

  • Kurtzman ET, Dawson EM, Johnson JE. A current state of nursing performance measurement, public reporting, and value-based purchasing. Policy Polit Nurs Pract. 2008;9(3):181-191.

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