1. Discuss how health policy initiatives are used to guide and direct your clinical practice as an Advanced Practice Nurse.

The purpose of this assignment is to examine the process of putting a new policy into place. Write a 1,250-1,500 word paper according to the instructions provided below.

For your Final Presentation, you will continue your Week 3 The U.S. Health Care Presentation: Part 1 assignment on the on the U.S. health care system by expanding on the information it presented. Please note, you are adding on to the assignment you started in Week 3. If you do not include the previous slides, it will negatively impact your score. Please review the rubric if you are unsure of the impact. Please correct issues and address recommendations from your instructor’s Week 3 assignment feedback, then continue adding Parts 2 through 5 as directed below.

Therapeutic drug monitoring is a frequent practice in health care. How does age affect drug absorption, metabolization and excretion?

The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) was formed to ensure quality of patient care and measurement of patient outcomes with set standards.

Further Directions: Identify the aspects of this particular deviance and discuss its overall impact on US society and culture. Discuss accepted policies and practices in dealing with this deviance and how attitudes have changed (if they have) over time. Last, project how you see this deviance being treated with the next 10-20 year period. Is the behavior becoming normalized?

Describe how predictive analytics is used operationally in clinical and business processes in health care. In your response to peers, describe one or more roles of predictive analytics in the health care environment.

The paper should be about four pages minimum– not counting any title page, abstract, or references. You may choose to provide “a fix” for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (also known as the ACA or Obamacare), or you may propose a general replacement for the ACA.

The written portion of paper will be no longer than 6 to 7 pages and must
incorporate at least 4 to 6 (or more) reference. The format must conform to standard

1. The Administrative Simplification Compliance Act of 2001 requires that all Medicare claims be submitted electronically. Discuss at least two (2) vulnerabilities in the protection of electronic health information?