...Professional Development of Nursing Professionals Professional Development of Nursing Professionals The Impact of the IOM Report on Nursing Education The institute of medicine’s report will have a great impact on the nursing education (Institute of Medicine, 2010). This will open doors to an even greater innovation on the nursing education. In 2008, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) started an initiative in order to change for the better the future of nursing education and the whole nursing profession as well. The RWJF purpose is to make a report and give recommendations that will help the nursing profession. One those recommendations says that nurses should practice to the full extent of their education and training (Institute of Medicine, 2010). This is recommendations is very essential in order to improve the nursing profession and education, being a good nurse starts by having a good foundation in nursing school. If a nurse gets a good education, he or she will be competent enough to assess any situation that will come his or her way. He or she will be able to identify any problems and give the necessary needs of the patients because he or she can identify what is needed to be done in order to give the best and proper nursing care to every patient. Understanding every anatomy and physiology of the human body, memorizing every medication and action of each drug, and how to properly give the right care for every each patient suffering from different disease. These kind of...
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...Nursing Informative Essay Imagine just for a minute being in a hospital. Have you ever wondered who is always taking care of different patients almost at the same time? Or how it is possible that medicine is so advanced compared to years before? I have the answer. The nurse is the person in charge of taking care of patients, and medicine is so advanced thanks to the technology we have nowadays. I chose to be a Registered Nurse (RN), but I know is not an easy job because they have to perform different job duties. Not everyone can become a nurse, in fact, to be one, you need some requisites first. Afterward, medicine has become improved because of the advances we have on technology. When people choose Registered Nursed (R.N.) as their career they have to perform various job obligations. According to a website called “Monster” registered nurses have to “provide direct patient care and report any changes in patient status to the doctor treating the patient”. The nurse also “needs to keep in contact with the patient to let the patient know he is in good hands and good care”. In addition to that, the doctor always “needs to be informed about any change in the patient’s health” so he knows what medicines give the patient to become healthy again. Additionally, the same website also addresses that “they also need to update the condition of the patient to their family members and about the trainings, medicines and precautions that the patient needs to take as per plan of care...
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...Violation of The Honor Code and Ethical Practice in Nursing ECPI University Abstract This paper explores the effects of academic dishonesty and violations of the Honor Code in Nursing School, and the importance of ethics and ethical behavior in the nursing field. This will include a review of the Honor Code, and a discussion of why it is important. It will also take a look at the Code of Ethics and will cover problems that may arise when violations of the Honor Code and unethical behavior occur, the responsibilities of ethical behavior, and ways of staying on track with ensuring ethical behavior and practices are promoted in the Nursing Field. Violation of the Honor Code and Ethical Practices in Nursing The field of nursing is a highly critical field that requires the upholding of a strict code of ethics to ensure the safety and well being of doctors, nurses, and patients alike. Predominately, nursing is a career field that has associates that need to be immensely trusted by patients. Among any teaching, unethical academic behaviors may link in with a student’s future practice as a professional. Therefore, it is important that students of this profession be held to high standards and have rules that are set in place that obligates one to manage themselves ethically. Health Sciences, specifically nursing, deals with other people’s lives, every decision made has an impact on the patients outcome. Teaching and guiding students to think and behave in an ethical way will...
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...Review of the Institute of Medicines Report on the Future of Nursing Grand Canyon University: NRS-430V Review of the Institute of Medicines Report on the Future of Nursing In 2010, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) published a report that focused on the future of nursing in the United States. This report included research, information and recommendations of how to improve the field of nursing. Three main points of the report included how to transform and advance nursing education, how to encourage and foster nurses in leadership roles, and how to improve the overall practice of nursing (Institute Of Medicine Of The National Academies, 2010). Specific recommendations helped to serve as a guide for nurses, physician, managers and policy makers to help improve nursing. Transforming Education According to the IOM (2010) report, education is a topic that needs major reinvention at many different levels in order to help mold nurses to stay effective in the healthcare field. Current nursing education focuses on teaching safe techniques, mastering skills and memorizing information. As the population evolves, nursing education must also involve to stay ahead of the needs of patients. The IOM points out two major avenues to which this can be achieved, changing the focus of nursing schools themselves and encouraging continued education after a nurse has received their license. Although there are numerous routes for one to receive their Registered Nurse license, the IOM...
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...------------------------------------------------- Top of Form Search the site Bottom of Form * Home * Clinical Zones * Continence * Infection Control * Mental Health * Diabetes * Wound care * Assessment skills * Medicine management * Leadership * Midwifery and neonatal nursing * More ... * Search the Archive * Browse by clinical topic * Browse by issue date * Awards * Nursing Times Awards * Student Nursing Times Awards * Patient Safety Awards * Care Integration Awards * Write for Us * Nursing events * Courses * Subscribe from overseas * Francis report * Nursing Practice * Nursing Times Learning * Opinion * Student Nursing Times * Jobs * Subscribe * You are here: Home * Clinical Zones * Medicine management How to ensure patient safety in drug dose calculation 12 October, 2012 Medicines management is a core nursing skill. This review gives an introduction to and taster of our newly launched online Nursing Times Learning unit on drug calculations. Keywords: Patient safety/Drug calculation/Medicines management * This article has been double-blind peer reviewed * Figures and tables can be seen in the attached print-friendly PDF file of the complete article in the ‘Files’ section of this page Medication incidents accoun-ted for 11% of all patient...
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...Impact of IOM 2010 Report on the Future of Nursing Troy Bradley Grand Canyon University: Professional Dynamics June 7, 2013 Impact of IOM 2010 Report on the Future of Nursing In 2010, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released its report The Future of Nursing, Leading Change, Advancing Health. This report addresses the opportunity the United States has to transform its health care system into a higher quality, safer, more affordable and accessible system since the enactment of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) (Institute of Medicine, 2010). There are many recommendations on how to bring about this transformation. Three specific nursing areas which could be affected by these are education, practice (particularly primary care), and nursing roles as leaders. Within these are also recommendations not just for future nurses, but for practical changes the nurse can make in everyday practice now. Impact on Education The report clearly recommends nurses should achieve higher levels of education and training. It emphasizes the need for more nurses to enter the workforce with a baccalaureate degree, or to obtain one early in their career (Institute of Medicine, 2010). This is a requirement many hospitals are already putting into place. It also clearly makes its case for an all-BSN workforce at the entry level, in order to have the uniform foundation for the future nursing roles that they envision. The committee believes the nursing workforce should be at 80% having a BSN by 2020. They...
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...Advanced Nursing Practice Nursing Theories In nursing there are theories that determine how the profession is going to be handled. Scholars and other practitioners of medicines have proved these theories. In our case we will be looking how these theories are applicable in the entire world of nursing medicine. What are nursing theories? Nursing theories are theories that describe, develop, and provides on how nursing profession should be carried out. These theories provide information on how or on the ground on how the terms of nursing terms can be defined and even touches on how principles of nursing and how the basis of nursing and how it can be improved. In the nursing, there are many theories in nursing but in our case we will only touch on Grand theory and Middle range theory. These two theories are very vast when it comes to nursing and we need to divulge some details as we go on. Grand theory: Adaptation concept and Behavior concept This is a very broad theory that does not intend to achieve a certain goal, or we can also state that this theory is composed of concepts that represent global or wide and extremely complex phenomena. It is actually the widest in the scope and also it represents the most abstract in nursing in which several things are checked and tested. Generally a grand theory is not intended for the formation for the particular nursing fields but rather provides a general for structuring broad ideas in nursing. Orem self-care...
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...The Future of Nursing Tonya Lipscomb Grand Canyon University: Professional Dynamics March 17, 2013 The Future of Nursing The field of nursing is a vast profession with continual growth into several different areas of the medical arena. With the Affordable Care Act of 2010, the need for nurses went on the rise and is at a steady rise. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) Report of 2010 discusses the need for nurses in different areas of healthcare and education. This paper will talk about the impact of the IOM Report on education in nursing, on the practice of nursing in primary care, and on nurse leadership. The Institute of Medicine 2010 (IOM) Report reveals the 2010 Affordable Care Act is the largest healthcare renovation since 1965. Changing the healthcare system to deliver safe, excellent, patient-centered, accessible, and inexpensive health care will involve a complete changing of the roles of various health care professionals, particularly nursing. To understand this vision, nursing education must be profoundly better before and also after nurses obtain their licenses (IOM 2010). Nurses are being summoned to fill expanding roles and to dominate high-tech tools and information management systems while teaming up and organizing care with assemblies of health care professionals. To answer these growing demands, the IOM committee requests for nurses to attain a higher level of learning and recommends that they are schooled in new ways that better help them to meet the...
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...Valsamma Mathew Impact of IOM Report on Future of Nursing Grand Canyon University NRSV 430 09/16/2014 In October 2010 the Institute of Medicine (IOM), worked in concordance with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and released report called, “ Future of Nursing, leading change, Advancing Health.” The report proposed ways to improve the profession of nursing today from individual progress to bettering the national workforce as a whole. This report advocated for many changes in the practice of nursing. Such changes include enhancing nursing education to provide better quality patient care. The report also stresses the benefits of nurses actively partaking in leadership roles when treating patients. Moreover, the report suggests ways for nurses to be better practitioners at the community and national levels. Through these propositions, the IOM report has made a positive impact on the profession of nursing. The IOM report emphasizes the importance of education for nurses. The report recommends elevating the current standard of nursing education so that the basic requirement for licensure is a baccalaureate degree. The report cites that there is a positive correlation between the number of nurses with a BSN degree and improved patient outcomes. (Cronenwett, 2011), This suggests that the baccalaureate nurses are better equipped to provide quality patient care. Furthermore, IOM advises changing the existing nursing curriculum to implement focus on interpersonal collaboration...
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...Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Today’s Nursing Practice Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Today’s Nursing Practice Complementary and Alternative Medicine is becoming more and more prevalent in the healthcare world as an acceptable treatment modality. Due to increase in patient demand for these treatments, it is important for the nurses to be able to implement various CAM into their nursing practice to provide holistic care for their patients. It is also important for nurses to be knowledgeable about the various forms of therapy and its benefits. CAM is meeting the needs of many consumers due to various reasons. The increase in healthcare cost has encouraged many consumers to research alternative methods to help cope with various medical conditions as opposed to turning to the pharmacological methods that were typically accepted years ago. Consumers also have more access to new trials and studies in regards to CAM because of increased access to the internet and media. Because of this, patients are more involved in their own healthcare and treatment decisions than in the previous years. According to the National Center of Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 1 in 4 adults from various backgrounds are currently using CAM therapies. (“The use of, 2011) Some of the most common medical reasons patients decide to try CAM therapies are problems with anxiety and depression, reoccurring nausea and pain related to cancer, and symptom management related to...
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...Linares-Cornejo Chamberlain College of Nursing Theoretical Basis for Advance Nursing Practice NR 501 Lizabeth Vincent March 25, 2016 Concept Analysis Healing Advance practice nursing encompassed a mosaic of knowledge. These knowledge is acquire through years of formal educational and preparation, through the development of a deeper mode of critical thinking, through life experiences, through the desire to achieve and provide the best one can offer, and through the final understanding that one does not have all the answers or the power but one can help others to alleviate their pain. Advance practice nursing preparation is a journey that takes the nurse through different paths designed to provide understanding to how nursing science has developed and continues to evolve. Nursing science has made great advances-this thanks to the many theorists that thought their theories have guided, provided, and developed essential concepts now use in nursing care delivery. The following will be a discussion about concept analysis and how this lead to the development of theories. The concept of healing will be discussed as it applied though Barbara Dossey’s Theory of Integral Nursing. Third, the concept will be evaluated using the concept analysis process, and the conclusion will be a summary of how the healing concept is utilized within the broad scope of advance nursing practice. Concept Introduction Healing is Barbara Dossey’s Theory of Integral Nursing core concept. According to Dossey...
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...How the Institute of Medicine Affects Nursing Carrie D. Brown NURS430-V Professional Dynamics Grand Canyon University June 3, 2016 The Institute of Medicine (IOM) report was written as a guide to help nurses build a stronger health care system. The Institute of Medicine focused on prevention and wellness. Nurses need to have more education and put into practice the education and training they have received. An associate degree is ok to have but a baccalaureate degree is recommended. A baccalaureate degree has a bigger knowledge of community health. Higher educations have been linked to lower mortality rates. This is one of the many reasons a baccalaureate degree is wanted by employers. Having more availability to health care nurses will play different roles in health care. Health care will focus more on prevention. This will benefit practice registered nurses as they will be able to be the primary care provider. Nurses will be able to use their education. This will include education of patients and families. The Institute of Medicine is a nonprofit, organization whose purpose is to give advice in regards to medicine and health. It works separately from the U.S. federal government and provides “unbiased, evidence-based, and authoritative information and advice concerning health and science policy to policy-makers, professionals, leaders in every sector of society, and the public at large” (“Institute of Medicine, “2013.) In 2010, the Institute of Medicine (IOM)...
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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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...Professional Development of Nursing Professionals According to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report (2010), the nursing profession has become the nation’s largest health care workforce with more than three million active licensed members. Registered nurses (RNs) usually work in hospitals, physician inpatient or outpatient offices, home healthcare, nursing care facilities, correctional facilities, government offices, schools or public health offices, and within the military. There primary role is provide and coordinate patient care, educate patients and the public about health conditions, and provide advice as well as emotional support for the patients and their family members (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2016). Nursing has become one of the fastest growing healthcare professions with an expected 20% increase per decade by the year 2030 based on the high demand but quick turnover from the new grad nurses population and the 2010 Affordable Care Act (Auerbach, et. al., 2013). The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in 2008, created a two-year initiative response toward the need to assess and transform the nursing profession in response to the 2010 Affordable Care Act legislation which has become one of the largest health care overhauls since the 1965 creation of Medicare and Medicaid. The IOM appointed a committee on the RWJF Initiative on the Future of Nursing at the IOM to produce multiple reports that would make recommendations for an action...
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...Developments in Professional Nursing Grace Varghese Grand Canyon University NRS-430 Professional Dynamics June 16th, 2013 In the health care system nurses are taking the important role. Bed side nurses, school health nurse, nurses in different leadership positions etc. We can see many obstacles in the fast changing health care systems. To prevent these obstacles, institution such as IOM (Institute of Medicine) and RWJF (Robert wood Johnson Foundation), introduced a two year plan to make some changes to remodel and repair the nursing profession. The nurses have to provide a high quality nursing care to the patients and in order to achieve this, they have to attain high education, training and attend health care conferences and mandatory classes along with healthcare team including the physicians. This participation will bring a great change in reformation of the health care system in the future. This is also known as required effective work force (IOM Future of Nursing Report). The future of nursing is going to face many challenges. In order to overcome these challenges, the health care system has found some new solutions. Those solutions are: to advance the nursing profession to higher level degrees to perform safe and quality nursing care teaching, leadership, evidence based practice, and expand nursing schools Why we are in need of higher education in the future? Because the competencies are very essential to spread the nursing profession and nurses are in a great...
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