IOM Impact On Nursing Future

In October of 2010, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) released the report, The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health. In 2008, a committee was formed to evaluate, and make changes to the nursing career. Nurses, play an important role in health system, specifically at the time in America where health care has change greatly, and the health system had to make adjustment.

IOM View on Nursing Education
Education is the key point for every career, and as human there are great demands out there from, jobs, parents, and society to improve our educational level, and academic life. The focus on advancing one educational level starts with the demand from society. Most jobs, or career requires from every staff, higher knowledge, degree or certifications, along with continuous training in order to obtain any supervisory, administrative, or managerial position. The demand for the nursing career derived from the IOM which is a self-regulating group of well-known experts from various professions (IOM).
Health specialists should have higher education in order to provide patient care, and as participants of this collaborative team, their main focus should be about quality care improvement, along with approaches on evidence-based practice, and some specifics information about individual expertise (IOM 2010). The plan is to encourage the minimum of 10% of baccalaureate program graduates to enroll into a master or doctoral degree educational programs within five years of completion of BSN degree (IOM).
IOM goals for nurses, and their practice. The goal is to eliminate the scope of practice limitations which prevents Nurse practitioners (NP) from treating patients to a higher level of education, training and serving in primary health positions, and also encouraging nurses to