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In March of 2010 the
Affordable Care Act was enacted, this was designed to ensure that everyone
had access to health care and more affordable health care. It original
design was to realign and encourage collaboration between health and
healthcare system (Public Health, n.d.). One of the initiatives was a
Public Health Workforce Loan Repayment Program. This was to attempt to
make sure that there were enough nurses to care for these patients. The
incentive of having loan repayment would cost the participant three year commitment
to public health agency, the Health & Human Service Department offers
a repayment program (American Nurses Association, 2014).

With the scholarships and
loan repayment programs, this encourages primary care providers, dentists,
mental health care providers and nurses to commit to communities that are
in need of their services. We are familiar with this with Native Health
and is now bridging over to other public health offices.

As a nurse with a role in
providing health care to the population they are able to support the long
term care for these patients. Many of the patients that benefit from
public health assistance are the mentally ill, the low income, mothers and
babies, and the elderly. I have personally noticed an increase in the
number of public health nurses and they are getting out into the community
teaching and caring for the community.

Reference:

American Nurses Association.
(2014). Health care transformation: The Affordable Care Act and more.
Found at: www.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCatagories.Policy-Advocacy/HealthSystemReform/AffordableCareAct.pdf.