Important information you must know as controlled substance prescriber:

• There are five classes of substance considered under the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 (Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970, 2019). Review them by visiting the following link https://www.dea.gov/drug-scheduling
• Once licensed as Florida Nurse Practitioner (NP) license, you will need 2 hours of controlled substance prescription CEUs and to apply for the DEA license. The application cost $ 731 and it’s valid for three years. NPs are required to have a controlled substance agreement with the supervising physician. DEA website https://apps.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/webforms/jsp/regapps/common/newAppLogin.jsp

References

Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970. Retrieved on March 10, 2019 from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive_Drug_Abuse_Prevention_and_Control_Act_of_1970

Kellams, J. R., & Maye, J. P. (2017). The last state to grant nurse practitioners DEA licensure: An education improvement initiative on the Florida prescription drug monitoring program. Journal of addictions nursing, 28(3), 135-142. doi: 10.1097/JAN.0000000000000177

U.S Department of Justice and Drug Enforcement Administration. Diversion control division. Application for Registration Under Controlled Substances Act of 1970 (NewApplicants Only). Retrieved from https://apps.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/webforms/jsp/regapps/common/newAppLogin.jsp

  To Prepare

• Review the resources related to Medicare Access and      CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) and meaningful use objectives.
• Review the Criteria for Attestation.
• Consider your current workplace or a former workplace      and reflect on how EHR implementation slows your work, including staffing      issues, medication barcoding, or any other issues that you might      encounter.
• Identify policy mandates and requirements and reflect      on how informatics and EHR implementation affect your ability to meet      those policy mandates and requirements. 
• Identify other mandates (e.g., quality, safety,      requirement of reporting) and reflect on how they may affect issues you      identified.

By Day 3 of Week 10

Post a response that analyzes how policy mandates and requirements you experience might affect the issues you encounter as a practicing nurse informaticist. Be specific and provide examples. Next, analyze how evolving policies that may be implemented might affect issues you encounter in nursing practice, and explain why.

McBride, S., & Tietze, M. (2019). Nursing informatics for the advanced practice nurse: Patient safety, quality, outcomes, and interprofessionalism (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Springer Publishing.
Chapter 1, “Introduction to Health Information Technology in a Policy and Regulatory Environment” (pp. 2–17)
Chapter 12, “National Standards for Health Information Technology” (pp. 272–295)

Centers for Disease Control. (2017, January 18). Meaningful use. Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/ehrmeaningfuluse/introduction.html 

Lye, C. T., Forman, H. P., Daniel, J. G., & Krumholz, H. M. (2018). The 21st Century Cures Act and electronic health records one year later: Will patients see the benefits? Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 25(9), 1218–1220. 

Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. (2017, May 15). Standard nursing terminologies: A landscape analysis. Washington, DC: Author. Retrieved from https://www.healthit.gov/sites/default/files/snt_final_05302017.pdf

Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. (2019, February 20). Meaningful use and MACRA. Retrieved from https://www.healthit.gov/topic/meaningful-use-and-macra/meaningful-use-and-macra

Federal Register: The Daily Journal of the United States Government. (2016, May 5). Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) programs; Medicaid managed care, CHIP delivered in managed care, and revisions related to third party liability. Retrieved from https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/05/06/2016-09581/medicaid-and-childrens-health-insurance-program-chip-programs-medicaid-managed-care-chip-delivered

eCQI Resource Center. (2019a, May 10). eCQMs. Retrieved from https://ecqi.healthit.gov/ecqms

eCQI Resource Center. (2019b, May 10). Eligible hospital/critical access hospital eCQMs. Retrieved from  https://ecqi.healthit.gov/eligible-hospital/critical-access-hospital-ecqms

Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade. (2019, April 25). Leapfrog hospital safety grade: Scoring methodology. Retrieved from https://www.hospitalsafetygrade.org/media/file/HospitalSafetyGrade_ScoringMethodology_Spring2019_FINAL.pdf