Quality and safety of care accorded to patients

Agency Synopsis

Identify regulatory agencies that regulate health and the health care system within the US, create a table listing your 5 regulatory agencies and address the following:

1. Describe the agency, level of regulatory authority (local, state, federal), scope of regulatory authority, and role within the US healthcare system.
2. Address relevance of the organization or the organization’s authority to the APRN/DNP graduate.
3. Describe relevance to specialty area, area of practice, or setting of practice. For an example, mental health.

Submission Requirements:

• In the table, write the 3 criteria above and respond to them.
• The table is to be clear and concise and students will lose points for improper grammar, punctuation and misspelling.
• The table is to be complete and thorough. It should include all items indicated in the assignment.
• Incorporate at least 3 current (published within last five years) scholarly journal articlesor primary legal sources (statutes, court opinions) within your work.
• Complete and submit the chart by 11:59 PM ET Sunday.

Work is Check via TURN it In… anything greater than 20% gets an automatic ZERO

Answer preview

CDCs regulations on COVID-19. Even though the NCSBN is not directly responsible for regulating health care, it does it indirectly by administering examinations to nurses before they get registered and licensed. As such, the agency ensures that only qualified nurses are allowed to administer health care services (NCSBN 2018). The ATDSR focuses on improving public health by developing regulations aimed at reducing the presence of hazardous materials that threaten the well-being and health of Americans. These regulations make it easier for stakeholders to identify and eliminate any hazardous materials either at their workplaces or in their houses. The DHHS does not focus on a specific area of public health when coming up with regulations (Rule, 2018). The regulations the agency comes up with are often general and meant to improve

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