General Instructions
This week, you will discuss how the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) impacts quality and safety.
Include the following sections:
- Application of Course Knowledge: Answer all questions/criteria with explanations and detail.
- Describe one practice area in which MIPS could be used to improve the quality of care related to your anticipated future practice setting. Do not discuss your current practice setting.
- Discuss two ways MIPS could positively impact the practice area.
- Describe the role of MIPS in supporting the financial viability of healthcare providers and organizations and client health outcomes.
- Examine how advanced practice nurses can contribute to the development and refinement of MIPS quality measures to ensure that they are valid, reliable, and meaningful for clients and providers.
- Integration of Evidence: Integrate relevant scholarly sources as defined by program expectationsLinks to an external site.:
- Cite a scholarly source in the initial post.
- Cite a scholarly source in one faculty response post.
- Cite a scholarly source in one peer post.
- Accurately analyze, synthesize, and/or apply principles from evidence with no more than one short quote (15 words or less) for the week.
- Include a minimum of two different scholarly sources per week. Cite all references and provide references for all citations.
- Engagement in Meaningful Dialogue: Engage peers and faculty by asking questions, and offering new insights, applications, perspectives, information, or implications for practice.
- Peer Response: Respond to at least one peer.
- Faculty Response: Respond to at least one faculty post.
- Communicate using respectful, collegial language and terminology appropriate to advanced nursing practice.
- Professionalism in Communication: Communicate with minimal errors in English grammar, spelling, syntax, and punctuation.
- Reference Citation: Use current APA format to format citations and references and is free of errors.