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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.
- American Counseling Association Advocacy Competencies
The ACA Advocacy Competencies describe necessary counselor...
- American Counseling Association Advocacy Competencies
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).
- 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...
May 31, 2019 · The groundbreaking Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) compels nurses to continue innovation, transformational leadership, and care coordination as major stakeholders in provision of the next generation of cost containment, quality advances, and patient access improvements.
May 11, 2021 · Nurses can strengthen their commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion by leading large-scale efforts to dismantle systemic contributors to inequality and create new norms and competencies within health care.
- Jennifer Lalitha Flaubert, Suzanne Le Menestrel, David R. Williams, Mary K. Wakefield
- 2021/05/11
- 2021
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.
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Empowerment Counselor Competencies. In direct interventions, the counselor is able to: Identify strengths and resources of clients and students. Identify the social, political, economic, and cultural factors that affect the client/student.
