Nurse Practitioner Support and Alignment Network (NP SAN)

No charge to attend

Objectives:

• Describe the characteristics of the regulations on APRN practice in the most restrictive (MR) states and in least restrictive (LR) states.
• Review a study that utilized a national database to explore whether patient outcomes for hypertension and diabetes control were better in MR states compared to LR states.
• Report the findings on hypertension and diabetes control in the MR states and in the LR states.
• State the main conclusion from the analysis in this study and the implication for health policy for APRN practice.

Speaker:

Deanna E. Grimes, DrPH, RN, FAAN (Retired), was a Suzie Conway Endowed Professor in Nursing and head of the division of community health nursing at UTHealth. Her research focused on APRN outcomes, patient adherence and therapies for infectious diseases.

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This activity is approved for 1.0 contact hour(s) of continuing education by the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP). Activity ID 19013484. This activity was planned in accordance with AANP CE Standards and Policies.

• Cannabis: What Does it Mean for your Practice?
• Making the Case for the Nurse Practitioner
• Managing Medication Reconciliation
• R-SCAN: Appropriate Radiology Imaging Practice Tools for Clinicians
• Improve Patient Safety in Primary Care Settings by Engaging Patients and Families: Part 1
• Cultural and Linguistic Competence
• Improve Patient Safety in Primary Care Settings by Engaging Patients and Families: Part 2
• Culturally Sensitive Care to LGBT+ Patients
• Enhanced Communication for Practice Transformation
• Acute Pain Management in Opioid-tolerant Individuals
• CAHPS Survey and Health Reform—What You Need to Know
• Enhancing Patient Health Literacy in a Primary Care Setting
• Medication Use and Hospital Readmissions: A Study on Elders
• Review of Systems: The Backbone of Practice
• Poorly Controlled Diabetes: A Complex Disease State
• Women and Heart Disease: An Evidence-based Update
• Clinician Endorsement in Patient Activation in Health Management
• Time and NP Practice: Naming, Claiming, and Explaining the Role of Nurse Practitioners

• How to Become a Published Author
• Full Practice Authority: What Every NP Needs To Know
• Full Practice Authority in Tennessee: Lessons Learned
• Successful Transition Into NP Practice: A Practical Guide
• Malpractice and Protecting Your NP License
• From Graduation to Employment: Steps to Success
• Aligning Data and Policy Goals: The Relationship Between NP Compensation and Value With CMS Change Tactics
• Making the Case for the Nurse Practitioner
• The Role of Scribes and Legal Implications for NPs

• Nursing Leadership: Current Status and What Lies Ahead
• Transforming Health Care: Data, Value and Populations
• EHR Implementation for Small and Rural Practices: Part 1
• EHR: Patient Care and Ethical/Legal Implications for NPs (Part 1)
• EHR Implementation for Small and Rural Primary Care Practices: Part 2

• Strategic Use of Practice Revenue
• The Science of Joy and Burnout
• Before You Start Your NP Business (Part 1)
• Starting Your Own Business—Part 2
• MIPS: What You Need to Know in Year 2—A Conversation With CMS
• Creating Long-term Practice Success—Part 3
• Novice NP Workforce Transition and Turnover Intention in Primary Care

CE sessions that align with the TCPI goals and objectives are available in the Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative category in the AANP CE Center. Also available are the following recorded sessions from AANP conferences:

2018 AANP National Conference

• Take ACTION: Opioid Overdose Prevention Education Training for Nurse Practitioners (0.5 pharmacology)
• Primary Care Screening and Diagnosis of Pediatric Anxiety and Depression (0.5 pharmacology)
• Managing Depression and Anxiety in Primary Care: Evidence-based Mental Health Concerns
• Advanced Spinal Imaging: MRI or Not to MRI
• Delirium Superimposed Upon Dementia: High Index of Suspicion!
• Psychiatry for Non-psychiatrists: Psychopharmacology in Primary Care (0.67 pharmacology)
• Achieving Peak Performance in Risk Adjustment Coding
• Opioid Prescribers: Avoiding Practice Breakdown and Disciplinary Action (1.0 pharmacology)
• Antibiotics, Infection and the Evidence: Update 2018 (1.0 pharmacology)
• Screening Adolescents for Risk of Suicide in Primary Care Settings
• Reality Check: Are You Evidence Based When Prescribing Psychotropic Drugs for Your Older Patients? (1.0 pharmacology)
• Neurological Radiology Indications and Interpretation: What to Order When
• Profits, Costs and RVUs: Business Metrics 101 for the Nurse Practitioner
• Where Practice Meets Business: How to Create a Compelling Business Case
• Reducing Diagnostic Errors in Practice: A Call to Action for Nurse Practitioners
• Understanding Business and Legal Implications for NP Practice

2017 AANP National Conference

• A Patient-centered Approach to Lipid Management
• Medication Management for Older Adults
• ICD-10 Documentation and Coding Primer for Primary Care
• Reimbursement for NPs in Acute Care/How Value Based Management of Medicare Patients Translates Into Large Scale Cost Savings/Getting Into the Practice of Business: A Brief Guide to Starting a NP-led Clinic
• LGBTQi2: What is an NP to Do? Caring for Patients With Cultural Humility
• Assessing for Suicidal Adolescents in a Primary Care Setting
• Best Practices in Obesity Management
• Evidenced-based Child and Adolescent Mental Health Screening, Brief Intervention and Management in Primary Care
• Useful Tools for Promoting Behavior Change and Self-management in Diabetes and Prediabetes
• Update on the Diagnosis and Management of Resistant Hypertension

2017 AANP Specialty and Leadership Conference

• Nutrition: The Function of Food and Its role in Obesity Management
• The Role of the Nurse Practitioner in Telehealth
• Competency Development and Leadership in Practice
• Neuropathic Pain: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis and Treatment of Common Conditions
• Workload, Quality, Burnout: Improving the Lives of Patients and Providers Through Interprofessional Practice
• Adolescent Substance Abuse: How to Recognize, Screen and Treat the Minor Patient

Visit the CE Center

2017 MIPs Estimator: Use the free Stratis Health MIPS Estimator to determine which measures and data submission methods give you the highest baseline Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) composite score. Then, make workflow changes to improve patient outcomes and work towards improving your MIPS score to achieve the highest possible reimbursement in 2017.

MACRA initiated the transition from fee-for-service to a quality-based Medicare reimbursement structure. AANP has covered with the news and tools you need to successfully navigate this transition.

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CMS recently awarded $20 million to 11 organizations for the first year of a five-year program to provide on-the-ground training and education about the Quality Payment Program for clinicians in individual or small group practices of 15 clinicians or fewer. NPs and clinicians who have not been successfully referred to a Practice Transformation Network (PTN) after enrolling in NP SAN can look forward to accessing this new program.

Clinicians will receive help choosing and reporting on quality measures, as well as guidance with all aspects of the program, including supporting change management and strategic planning and assessing and optimizing health information technology. As part of that outreach effort, CMS also launched a new telephone helpline for clinicians seeking assistance with the Quality Payment Program. Clinicians may contact the Quality Payment Program by calling 1-866-288-8292 from 8 a.m.–8 p.m. ET or by emailing qpp@cms.hhs.gov.

The TCPI Change Package describes the changes needed to transform clinical practice and meet TCPI goals. The driver diagram shows the relationships among goals, the primary drivers that contribute to achieving those goals and the subsequent factors that are necessary to achieve the primary drivers. The change package is a compilation of the interventions developed and tested by others.