...Running head: The impact on nursing of the 2010 IOM Report The Impact on nursing of the 2010 IOM report on the future of nursing. THE IMPACT ON NURSING OF THE 2010 IOM REPORT ON THE FUTURE OF NURSING. The institute of medicine and the Robert Wood Johnson foundation formed a Committee to look into ways of making nursing a strong profession where nurses become partners and leaders to improve health care in the period of health care reforms, this led to the creation of Robert Wood Johnson initiative (RWJF) on the future of nursing in conjunction with the Institute of medicine (IOM), The Committee made some recommendations on nursing in the United States titled “ The future of Nursing: Leading change, advancing health” The RWJF and IOM worked on this project for two years.in order to study, research learn and understand the implications for nursing as a profession being the largest component of health care workforce of this anticipated changes in health care. To realize this vision of transforming the health care system into a safe, accessible, patient centered care, this will require improved nursing education before and after nurses are licensed. The RWJF and IOM considered many challenges that face nursing education and proffered solutions that will assist in advancing the health care system, the Committee determined that nurses should be trained at higher levels of education by improving...
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...Development of Nursing Professionals A committee on Robert Wood Johnson foundation collaborated with the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to develop a project on the future of nursing back in 2008. In 2010 the IOM released a report on the initiative named The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health. Part II of the report describes the needed changes of the nursing profession in order to advance the whole health care system. The IOM “envisions a future where primary care and prevention are central drivers of the health care system, inter-professional collaboration and coordination are the norm, and payment for health care services rewards value, not volume of services, and quality care is provided at a price that is affordable for both individuals and society” (IOM, 2010). This report was supported by evidence-based practice which contributed for the high endorsement of the report from the American Nursing Association (ANA). In this paper I would like to focus on three major sections of the project, namely transforming of nursing education, nursing practice and nursing leadership. The report underlines the deep changes in nursing education that need to be implemented in the following years. Even though the main goal of the nursing education remains to prepare the future nurses and nursing specialist to provide quality and safe care to a diverse population, the education needs to evolve in ways that encourage working in teams with other health professionals. IOM report...
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...How the IOM report: “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health” Impacts Nursing Kylie Kuehl Grand Canyon University: NRS 430V March 7, 2016 How the IOM Report: “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health” Impacts Nursing In 2010, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released a nursing report titled “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health.” The report stressed the importance of developing a more highly educated nursing workforce, providing nurses more leadership opportunities, and interdisciplinary collaboration (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2013). The release of the IOM report has lead to a number of revolutionary changes in nursing education and practice; it has impacted all aspects of the nursing profession. When it comes to nursing education, the recommendation stated in the IOM report is that nurses should obtain higher levels of education and preparation. Specifically, it is recommended that the percentage of BSN educated nurses be increased to 80% by the year 2020. The release of the IOM report has provided the momentum necessary to change nursing education across the country. (Institute of Medicine, 2011) One particular program that was approved in response to the report is The Rhode Island Nurses Institute Middle College Charter High School. The concept of this middle college was developed due to the number of students from low-income areas that were dropping out of nursing school. The middle college is intended to...
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...The Impact of the 2010 Institute of Medicine (IOM) Report on the Future of Nursing Education, Practice and Leadership Aaron Peterson Grand Canyon University Profession Dynamics NRS-430V April 14, 2013 The Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) 2010 report on The Future of Nursing is a vision for ways to evolve nursing to better impact the changes in the world. The IOM was established in 1970 by the National Academy of Sciences. The IOM consists of a group of experts that discuss, debate, and examine future solutions in regards to the many concerns that the nation faces in regards to healthcare. This group’s primary goal is to improving high quality care, reduce medical errors and increase patient safety. In order to achieve these goals the group focuses the need to advance nursing education, nursing practice and nursing leadership. In healthcare nursing is considered one of the most versatile occupations with many different career pathways, a broadening scope of practice and increasing number of responsibilities. Nurses are considered to be the central part of the healthcare system to provide high quality and safe patient care. We must embrace the changes to improve the healthcare sector and provide care for people in all different settings. “The committee envisions a future system that makes quality care accessible to the diverse populations of the United States, intentionally promotes wellness and disease prevention, reliably improves health outcomes, and provides compassionate...
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...Running head: THE IMPACT ON NURSING OF THE 2010 IOM REPORT ON The Impact on Nursing of the 2010 IOM Report on Future Nursing Marylin Estes Grand Canyon University: NRS-430V September 23, 2011 The Impact on Nursing of the 2010 IOM Report on Future Nursing . The 2010 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report along with Robert Wood Johnson (RWJ) conducted a study to gain insight on a number of barriers that restrict nurses from responding effectively to rapidly changing health care systems, the need to assess and transform the nursing profession. In this report, “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health” (Institute of Medicine, 2010) they determined that our health care system was selling patients short on affordable, safe, quality care. The IOM founded four key messages: that nurses should fully utilize their education and training, nurses should continue to further their education, should work in a partnership with physicians and all other health care professionals, and have more structured policies to ensure better data collection and information. This paper will include the impact of nursing education, nursing practice, and the role of the nurse as a leader. According to the IOM report on nursing education, the U.S. health care systems will require serious changes in the education of nurses before and after achieving a license to help with the transition of the nursing roles and responsibilities. The goal will remain the same as nurses will continue...
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...The Impact of the IOM Report on Future Nursing Grand Canyon University: NRS-430V Professional Dynamics The Institute of Medicine (IOM) 2010 report defines for future nurses and health care workers its vision and goals in transforming current practice into something remarkable. The IOM, a non-profit organization, conducts research in a systematic approach to guide the nation in improving health. (Edelman, Kudzman, & Mandle, 2014). As we all know, the health care delivery system is changing significantly due to health care reforms such as the Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA). As we delve into this matter we will discover what the future of nursing can expect. We will investigate the effect the IOM report has on education, leadership, and future nursing practice. Potter & Perry (2011) describe the health care system of the future as high quality patient-centered care, accessible to all populations. The IOM (2010) reports that nursing practice is being shifted away from acute and specialty care, and directed towards primary care. The emphasis for health care is now centered on preventing illness, promoting wellness, and maintaining chronic conditions. (IOM, 2010). In order to meet the current goals set forth by the IOM, higher education is in order. The IOM has set a series of goals that they would like to see in place in the future. One of these goals is 80% of nurses to hold a baccalaureate degree by 2020. With the increased demands of health care, nurses...
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...Professional Development of Nursing Professionals: The Impact of the IOM Report, Nursing a Change for the Future Dina Gibson Grand Canyon University: NRS-430V February 10, 2013 Professional Development of Nurses: The Impact of the IOM Report, Nursing a Change for the Future The health care field is always growing and changing. With this advancement in technologies, it is important for the members of the professional health care field to grow with it. According to Robert Wood Johnson (2010), “With more than 3 million members, the nursing profession is the largest segment of the nation’s health care workforce” (Institute of Medicine 2010 pg1). A pathway needs to be cleared so that nurses can play an instrumental role in the improvement of the health care system. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the impact of the IOM (Institute of Medicine) report on nursing education, the impact of the IOM report on nursing practice, and the impact of the IOM report on the nurse’s role as a leader in the future of nursing care. The Impact of the IOM Report on Nursing Education There are many different educational paths one can choose when becoming a registered nurse (RN). These include the bachelors of Science (BSN), the associate’s degree (ADN), and the diploma in nursing. All three pathways are required to take National Council of State Board of Nursing (NCSBN). This exam measures competency for an entry level RN to begin practice. According to Robert Wood Johnson (2010),...
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...Running head: IOM and Nursing Impact of the IOM Report on Nursing April 20, 2014 Impact of the IOM Report on Nursing The 2010 IOM report breaks down the future of nursing and where we need to be headed as a profession in order to provide adequate patient care. Three important areas of this report include: Education, Leadership and Practice, especially primary care practice. These three areas are critical to the future of nursing and how it is perceived in that future. How nurses change the way they practice to meet these IOM goals could shape the face of nursing for years to come. According to the IOM, nurses should practice to the full extent of their education and training, nurses should achieve higher levels of education and training through an improved education system that promotes seamless academic progression and nurses should be full partners, with physicians and other health professionals, in redesigning health care in the United States (IOM, 2011). Education One key point in the IOM is education. It is becoming more widely believed that a higher educated nurse is a higher quality nurse. The IOM strongly supports this belief. According to one study “The causal relationship between the academic degree obtained by RNs and patient outcomes is not conclusive in the research literature. However, several studies support a significant association between the educational level of RNs and outcomes for patients in...
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...are more than three million nurses leading the healthcare labor pool today (Institute of Medicine, 2013). Therefore, with a legislative healthcare facelift this large, nurses will be on the front lines of this rapidly changing system. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) is a nonprofit organization that was asked to evaluate and provide recommendations on nursing in the United States (National Academy of Sciences, 2013). The goal of this paper is to discuss the impact of the IOM report on nursing in primary care, nursing education; and furthermore, the effect it has on of nurses as leaders. The IOM report developed four pivotal recommendations that focus on improving the future of nursing which in turn will remodel the health care system and improve patient outcomes (IOM, The Future of Nursing Summary, 2011). Key Message #1 According to the IOM report, the first recommendation is to maximize the “full potential of nurses”; therefore, increasing the quality of patient care. As illustrated in key message number one; “Nurses should practice to the full extent of their education and training” with particular focus directed towards advance practice registered nurses (IOM, The Future of Nursing, 2011, p. 86). The IOM report suggest that Medicare programs lift restrictions that limit advance practice registered nurses (APRN’s) allowing them to...
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...The Impact of the IOM Report on the Future of Nursing Marsha McGinnis Grand Canyon University Professional Dynamics NRS-430V October 13, 2013 The role of nursing today has vastly changed over the years. Additional responsibilities, growing demands of higher education, and increased job requirements have resulted in an exceptionally complex practice for the modern nurse. In order to meet these higher demands, the committee on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation at the Institute of Medicine (IOM) published a report containing recommendations to aid and enhance the future of nursing practice. This report contains four main key points. 1. Nurses should practice to the full extent of their education and training. 2. Nurses should achieve higher levels of education and training through an improved education system that promotes seamless academic progression. 3. Nurses should be full partners, with physicians and other health care professionals, in redesigning health care in the United States. 4. Effective workforce planning and policy making require better data collection and information infrastructure (IOM (Institute of Medicine), 2011). These recommendations are essential tools that today’s nurses can use to assist in the evolution of nursing practice. Nursing education, nursing practice and leadership skills are all areas that need improvement according to the IOM report. If these improvements are achieved, nurses will be able to enrich the quality of...
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...According to American Nurses Association (ANA) “Nursing is the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities and prevention of illness and injuries, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, advocacy of care of an individual, families, communities and population”. Nurses are providing care in all different heath care settings like hospitals, nursing homes, schools, medical offices, natural disasters, immunization clinic, research centers, pharmaceutical research and or any health related emergency like Ebola outbreak. Impact Of IOM Report On Health Care Practice The Institute Of Medicine (IOM) IOM (The Institute Of Medicine) is started in 1970. IOM is nonprofit, independent organization. It governs independent of government and give wise, reliable, and legal advice by providing reliable evidence. “The IOM is health arm national academy of science which was charted under president Abraham Lincoln in 1863.Nearly 150 years after national academies of science has expanded in to what is collectively known as national Academies which comprises the national Academy of science, national academy of engineering, the national research council and the IOM”. The IOM gives answer the nation’s most critical questions about health care. The nursing profession and medical field growing fast, nurses playing vital role with patient care. In 2008 The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and The Institute of Medication (IOM) started a two year program...
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...IOM Report-Future of Nursing The Future of Nursing Grand Canyon University: Professional Dynamics February 10, 2012 Overview The IOM report explains how nurses have an essential role in leadership in the health care setting. This report explains how education is vital to advance nurses into a partnership with physicians to improve the health care system nationwide. Impact of IOM report on Education In 2010, recently signed into law by the president, was the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which are referred to in this report as the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The ACA is expected to insure 32 million previously uninsured Americans. (“the future of,”2010) The nursing profession should be utilized to help build a health care system that will be focused on patient centered, safe, accessible, and affordable care. Nurses will need to practice to the full extent of their education. Florence Nightengale developed the concept of an educated workforce, modern nursing has reinvented itself a number of times as healthcare has advanced and changed. A well-educated nursing profession has helped make possible: Evolution of high technology hospital, possibility for physicians to combine office and hospital practice, shorter length of stay in hospital, reduce hours of physicians in residency to improve patient safety, improve access of care for poor and rural residents, respite and palliative care, including hospice patients. ...
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...THE FUTURE OF NURSING: LEADING CHANGE, ADVANCING HEALTH Introduction Studies show that the nursing profession cover most of the workforce in the health sector, and they are mainly served with the responsibility of acting as patients’ advocates as well as defining the care that is to be provided to ailing patients (Hamric, Spross and Hanson 21). Nurses mainly work on the frontline of patient care, and they tend to play a significant role in realizing the objectives formulated in the in the 2010 Affordable Care Act and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative (RWJFI) in collaboration with the Institute of Medicine (IOM), which define the need to change and advance healthcare (Initiative on the Future of Nursing n.d). Therefore, as much as there is a need to restructure the current healthcare, it is important to first address issues that interfere with the provision of quality and evidenced healthcare. To promote changes and advance health, the IOM report recommends nurses to practice to the full extent of their education, achieve higher levels of education and training through improved education process, and nurse to be involved in decision making processes touching on healthcare (Institute of Medicine n.d). The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health The impact of the IOM report on nursing education The primary goals of nursing education is mainly to prepare nurses to meet the ever increasing patients’ needs, function as leaders, and provide...
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...Running Head: NURSING’S FUTURE IN Nursing’s Future in Leadership Mary Ann McGirr Grand Canyon University December 22, 2012 On March 23, 2010, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), otherwise known as “Obamacare” was passed. This legislation was brought about due to the need to allow more Americans access to affordable, safe healthcare. As a result of the impending passage of this legislation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative on the Future of Nursing, at the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies (referred to as the IOM or IOM report hereafter) did a study, the results of which were released in 2010. In order to accommodate the influx of new patients into the healthcare system, sweeping changes are going to be needed. In order to accomplish what is called for in the PPACA, “major changes in the U.S health care system and practice environments will require equally profound changes in education of nurse both before and after they receive their licenses.” (IOM, 2010, p. 164). Newly licensed nurses need to be able to move from academia to the real world keeping patient safety foremost. This should include “a range of practice environments with an increased emphasis on community and public health settings.” (IOM, 2010, p. 164). Nurses will also need to be allowed to practice to the full extent that their education and experience allow. Leadership, communication skills and collaboration with all medical, administrative and governmental...
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...In 2010, the Institute of Medicine produced The Future of Nursing report in response to the United States Congress passing health care reform legislation, and the enactment of the Affordable Healthcare Act (AHA). The passing of these laws provides a platform in which the United States can forever change the health care system. The numerous goals of the IOM report are focused on the role of nursing in this transformation of care. “By virtue of its numbers and adaptive capacity, the nursing profession has the potential to effect wide-reaching changes in the health care system.” (The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health, 2011, pg.2) Besides the numbers, nurses are at the patient bedside and beyond (community and public health centers, schools etc.), providing care to a diverse patient population. Therefore, according to the IOM report, nurses are thought to be ideal in the leadership of redesigning and improving system of healthcare in the United States. The IOM report shows that there are many levels of nursing involvement in the transformation of healthcare. One main and prominent focus is Education. “Nurses should practice to the full extent of their education and training” (The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health, 2011, pg.163) This key statement addresses a barrier cited by the IOM noting the high turnover rate among newly graduated nurses, illuminating the reality that the field of nursing is losing talented new graduates before that talent...
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