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Across 5. Nursing practice covers a ______ continuum. 7. American Medical Association (ab). 9. Increase the number of nurses with a ______ degree from 50 to 80% by 2020. 13. There are over 57 RN ______ associations. 14. Health care organizations should offer _____ reimbursement. 17. Continuing professional ______. 22. The education system should promote seamless _____ progression. 23. Health promotion and disease _____. 25. Affordable Care Act (ab). 26. Integrate leadership theory and business ______ into curriculums. 28. Health care needs an improved ______ infrastructure. 30. Nurses will play a significant _____ in the transformation of the health care system. 32. Advanced practice registered nurse (ab). 33. Social, mental, and _____ needs. 37. The majority of nurses practice in _____. 39. Nurses practice in many _____. 40. Data collection and _____. 41. Positive clinical ______.
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45. Transitional _____. 47. Nurses should take responsibility for their ______ and professional growth. 48. Remove scope-of-practice ______. 50. Certified Nursing Assistant (ab). 52. Nurses should practice to the full ______ of their education. 53. State Board of _____. 54. Skill _____. 55. The nursing profession must produce ______ throughout the system. 57. Federal Trade Commission (ab). 60. Planning and ______ making require better data collection. 62. ______ improvement. 65. A health ______ helps individuals stay healthy. 67. Department of _____. 68. The ______ age of nurses is 46. 69. International _____ of nursing. 73. Interdisciplinary ______. 75. The US has an ______ population. 76. Practice limitations vary widely by _____. 77. Three health care reform initiatives are quality, _____, and value. 78. Just 16.8% of the nursing workforce is _____-white. 79. A state of well being. 80. Nurses should have a ______ in health policy decision making. 81. Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (ab).
Source: Committee on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative on the Future of Nursing, at the Institute of Medicine; Institute of Medicine. Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health. Washington, DC: National Academies Press; 2011.
The answers will be provided in the next issue.
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Down 1. National Association of School Nurses (ab). 2. Payment for health care services should reward _____ not volume. 3. Nurses collaborate with a variety of health _____. 4. Full-time equivalents (ab). 6. Nurses should provide culturally ______ care to all populations. 8. The Affordable Care _____ of 2010. 10. Care management and ______of services. 11. Accrediting and ______ organizations. 12. Nursing has ______ educational pathways leading to entry level. 15. There are high rates of this among nurses. 16. Institute of Medicine (ab). 18. Nurses have a direct _____ on patient care. 19. The term health care includes a full _____ of services. 20. Patient-______ care. 21. Care is often _____ due to poor communication between providers. 23. Nurses should be full _____ with physicians. 24. Quality care at an ______ price. 27. There are disconnects between public and private _____. 29. National Health Care Information Technology (ab). 31. Nurses care for patients in a ______ way.
34. Nurses should serve on ______ committees. 35. Engage in _____ learning. 36. The nursing workforce is not as ______ as it should be. 38. Clinical Nurse Specialist (ab). 42. To make something easy or easier. 43. Nurses are the ______ component of the health care workforce. 44. We need to make _____ care a greater part of the health care system. 46. Nurse-______ health centers. 47. Third-_____ payers. 49. Nurses should achieve higher _____ of education. 51. Doctor of philosophy in nursing. 56. Fragmentation of the health care ______. 58. Minority groups make up about a _____ of the US population. 59. Life-______ technology. 61. Prepare and enable nurses to lead _____to advance health. 63. _____ of practice. 64. 7% of employed nurses are _____. 66. Health and _____ Services. 70. Nurses must see policy as something they can _____ rather than something that happens to them. 71. Nurses have a well-grounded knowledge_____. 72. Major _____ exist in the currently available workforce data. 74. National Student Nurses Association (ab).
Sandy Wilbanks, APRN, MSN, FNP, works at Phoenix Family Physicians Group in Saginaw, MI. She can be reached at
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