¶ … PPACA on Nursing Practice: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is a legislation that was enacted in March 2010 as part of meaningful and comprehensive reform for America's healthcare system. Upon enactment, the legislation has had significant on the country's healthcare infrastructure. In order to accomplish its goals, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act focuses on registered nurses because of their role in the current healthcare system. Registered nurses are the largest single group of clinical healthcare practitioners in America's health system. They work in a holistic mechanism and interconnected system to provide care services to patients, families, and the community. The legislation seeks to transform the current sick care system into an actual healthcare system through various major provisions.

One of the major provisions with significant effects on current nursing practice...

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has made considerable changes on various aspects of nursing workforce, especially nursing education. As a result, the legislation will have considerable effects on nursing education with regards to increase in number of nursing students and promoting career advancement among nurses ("Key Provisions Related to Nursing," n.d.). The effect of the legislation on nursing education is linked to various factors such as increasing opportunities for advancement in education and increasing funding and eligibility for baccalaureate or graduate education such as nurse student loan.
The second provision is about quality of nursing home transparency in order to enhance the quality of care in nursing homes. The provision will contribute to improved accountability of nursing homes through disclosure of the identities of their owners and operators (Brody & Sullivan-Marx, 2012, p.5). Furthermore, nursing homes will enhance accountability by reporting and collecting staffing data, which enables geriatric patients and families to evaluate the quality of these homes.

Innovative Care Delivery Model:

The need for new models of delivery of care has been fueled by the recent trends in the health care system. Some of these trends in the United States' health care system include the demand for costly acute services in light of the looming shortages of major healthcare professionals such as nursing shortage. America's health care system continues to face this challenge despite of the increase in healthcare spending to an extent that current expenditure is nearly double as compared…