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Nursing Informatics
Student's Name
Institutional Affiliation
Course Name and Code
Instructor's Name
Assignment due Date
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Nursing Informatics
This paper will examine the nursing act of 2020, which is among the most recent
regulations passed by the united states congress concerning improving healthcare services. The
nursing act of 2020 was passed during the covid-19 pandemic period, and its primary concern
was to improve quality care for nursing home inhabitants and staff during the covid-19 pandemic
(Congress, 2020). Subsequently, this bill entails regulations and alternations in numerous needs
for Medicare skilled nursing facilities (SNF) and Medicaid nursing facilities (NFs) after
numerous healthcare professionals lost their lives during the covid-19 as there were giving care
to covid-19 patients.
This act is connected to Medicare as it mandates the SNFs and NFs to adhere to the
quality of treatment, employee safety, and transparency about public fines. This policy requires
regular testing for occupants and workforce for covid-19, mostly after a week or before they
shift. Also, it requires reporting any lack of available testing kids daily. Furthermore, the
regulation required the nurses to give every healthcare professional a minimum of two weeks of
salaried sick leave. Finally, the regulation required transparent reporting of the covid-19 cases of
deaths by integrating demographic information daily (Congress, 2020). Furthermore, the act
demands that the Centers for Medicare and Medicare service provide the needed resources that
would allow the states to institute pandemic squads that are arrayed to SNFs and NFs in three
days or more covid-19 diagnoses to aid distinct those who have been subjected to the virus,
oversee testing and guarantee the protection of whistleblowers. Also, in the teams, there must be
adherents of the national guard and public health professionals: medical professionals and people
spoke persons.
Nursing Informatics
Student's Name
Institutional Affiliation
Course Name and Code
Instructor's Name
Assignment due Date
, 2
Nursing Informatics
This paper will examine the nursing act of 2020, which is among the most recent
regulations passed by the united states congress concerning improving healthcare services. The
nursing act of 2020 was passed during the covid-19 pandemic period, and its primary concern
was to improve quality care for nursing home inhabitants and staff during the covid-19 pandemic
(Congress, 2020). Subsequently, this bill entails regulations and alternations in numerous needs
for Medicare skilled nursing facilities (SNF) and Medicaid nursing facilities (NFs) after
numerous healthcare professionals lost their lives during the covid-19 as there were giving care
to covid-19 patients.
This act is connected to Medicare as it mandates the SNFs and NFs to adhere to the
quality of treatment, employee safety, and transparency about public fines. This policy requires
regular testing for occupants and workforce for covid-19, mostly after a week or before they
shift. Also, it requires reporting any lack of available testing kids daily. Furthermore, the
regulation required the nurses to give every healthcare professional a minimum of two weeks of
salaried sick leave. Finally, the regulation required transparent reporting of the covid-19 cases of
deaths by integrating demographic information daily (Congress, 2020). Furthermore, the act
demands that the Centers for Medicare and Medicare service provide the needed resources that
would allow the states to institute pandemic squads that are arrayed to SNFs and NFs in three
days or more covid-19 diagnoses to aid distinct those who have been subjected to the virus,
oversee testing and guarantee the protection of whistleblowers. Also, in the teams, there must be
adherents of the national guard and public health professionals: medical professionals and people
spoke persons.
