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The ACA Advocacy Competencies describe necessary counselor skills, knowledge, and behavior that can be implemented to address systemic barriers and issues facing students, clients, client groups or whole populations (hereafter, clients and client groups is inclusive of students and student groups).
ACA has established guidelines for best practices in counseling, outlining the skills, knowledge, and behaviors expected of professionals in specific areas. While these guidelines are not mandatory, they provide a benchmark for high-quality counseling services.
- The ACA and Access to Care
- Equity and The ACA
- The ACA and Healthcare Cost
- The ACA and Quality and Safety
- Strategies to Impact Healthcare Policy, Access, and Equity
- Conclusion
- Authors
Nurses exercise their power by critically evaluating the impact of policy and advocating for the needs of their community when revision is needed.Nurses exercise their power by critically evaluating the impact of policy and advocating for the needs of their community when revision is needed (Patton et al., 2019). Nothing tests the impact of policy ...
The ACA was intended to provide for equity in the delivery of healthcare (Grogan, 2017). The COVID-19 pandemic revealed that while much had been accomplished in advancing healthcare, much remained to be done in providing for equity if population health goals were to be achieved (National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine [NASEM], 2021)...
...nurses need to remain focused and knowledgeable regarding the economics, politics, and business challenges occurring around their practice...The National Health Expenditure Report (NHE) presents health spending and enrollment for the next decade. The 2021-2030 report projected a decrease in spending despite an increase in demand for hospital car...
The new provisions announced through the ACA call for implementation by nurse leaders. The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) added equity as one of the 5 factors necessary for healthcare improvement when it published The Quintuple Aim for Healthcare Improvement (Nundy et al., 2022). As such, equity was added to improved patient experience ...
Promoting Nurses on Boards Nurses belong everywhere important decisions are made because every nurse can be a leader. Nurses have been serving on boards in communities where they live and work for years. Many of the early board roles originated from needs that were discovered in working with underserved populations (Harper and Benson, 2021). As suc...
When the ACA became law, great steps were taken to reduce healthcare expense, improve access to care, and provide for equity in healthcare. Over the 12 years that followed, nurses experienced unprecedented challenges and changes in healthcare. Nursing practice and education continue to develop to meet these challenges. Nurses have responded by inno...
Kimberly A. Cleveland, JD, MSN, RN, C-MBC, C-MPC Email: kthoma43@kent.edu Kimberly Cleveland is an associate lecturer in the Nursing and Health Care Management Concentration, Coordinator of Undergraduate and Graduate Health Care Policy, and Co-Coordinator of the Undergraduate Nursing Honors Program at Kent State University College of Nursing. She p...
ACA Counselor Competencies: Culturally Appropriate Intervention Strategies. Providing good care goes beyond counselors' general knowledge, clinical skills, and approaches; it involves understanding the multicultural context of clients and of themselves as counselors.
- Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (US)
- 2014
May 11, 2021 · Traditional nursing competencies, such as care management and coordination, patient education, public health intervention, and transitional care, are likely to dominate in a reformed healthcare system as it inevitably moves toward an emphasis on prevention and management rather than acute [hospital] care.
- Jennifer Lalitha Flaubert, Suzanne Le Menestrel, David R. Williams, Mary K. Wakefield
- 2021/05/11
- 2021
assess the counselor’s agreement with the counseling philosophy, standards associated with the practice of counseling, and the components of counseling (e.g., continuing education, professional relationships).
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Nurses working in mental health are not required to have a postgraduate qualification; this may impact the insights that they are able to share about the competencies of mental health nurses. It may be that we should only have included nurses who had evidence that they had completed postgraduate training in mental health, and this is an acknowledged limitation of our study.
