...Running head: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE NURSING Professional Development of the Nursing Professionals Socorro L. Lufsey Grand Canyon University: Professional Dynamics NRS 430v March 02, 2012 Professional Development of the Nursing Professionals This paper will discuss the report from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and the impact it has on the nursing profession. The nursing profession is one of the fasting growing professions and is the largest occupation in the healthcare industry (United States Department of Labor, 2010). In 2010 the Affordable Health Care Act was passed which has now changed many aspects of the nursing profession. The Institute of Medicine’s (2010) report discusses in detail the changes that need to occur within nursing education, nursing practice, and nursing leadership to support the healthcare changes that need to occur for the safety of the patients’. Nursing Education Nurses can enter the profession with a variety of degrees. One may choose to obtain their Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN) in twelve to eighteen months, an Associate Degree (ADN) in Nursing (RN) in two to three years, a Diploma in Nursing (RN) in three years through a hospital-based training program or a Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing (BSN) in four years (Institute of Medicine, 2010, p. 44). With the increasing complexity of patient care and the skills needed for a higher quality of care the Institute of Medicine’s report states that “nurses should achieve higher levels...
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...Development of Nursing Professionals Grand Canyon University: NRS 430v Professional Dynamics March 4, 2012 Abstract The impact of the IOM on the Future of Nursing revolves around three basic key factors: “Nurses should practice to the full extent of their education and training.” (The Future of Nursing, 2010) “Nurses should achieve higher levels of education and training through an improved education system that promotes seamless academic progression.” (The Future of Nursing, 2010) “Nurses should be full partners, with physicians and other health professionals, in redesigning health care in the United States.” (The Future of Nursing, 2010) In 2008, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation approached the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to propose a partnership between the two organizations to assess and respond to the need to transform the nursing profession. The report covers the theory that nurses will be able to fill the new and expanded roles of the healthcare system. By reviewing these key points presented the transformation of the nursing profession, nurses must have the education to enable them to provide patient centered care with the safest and most effective delivery. Additionally, they must engage with physicians and other health care professionals to deliver efficient and effective care and assume leadership roles in the restructure of the health care system. Impact of IOM Report on Nursing Education According to Thomas Sullivan’s report “nurses have...
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...The Future of Nursing? How will nursing in the future be impacted as a result of the Institute Of Medicine’s (IOM) report of 2010? Frank Gallegos Santa Fe Community College 10/27/13 The Future of Nursing? How will nursing in the future be impacted as a result of the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) report of 2010? In 2010 the Institute of Medicine (IOM) put out a report that has already started to impact nursing today but is really going to affect the future of nursing. This report is going to have major effects on nursing in the future; it is going to effect the education requirements of nurses, nursing practices, especially in the primary care area and the role of nurses as leaders. Educational Requirements for Nurses As with everything in life, change is required for something to grow and prosper. Nursing is no different. With the aging workforce there is going to be a huge shortage of nurse and this is going to create major problems. According to the IOM, there is no conclusive studies that shows, a Bachelors in Science of Nursing (BSN) entry level nurse has any overall effect on patient outcome vs. an Associate’s Degree of Nursing (ADN). The BSN entry level nurse does bring into the field some valuable competencies like, health policy, health care finance, leadership, Evidence Based Practice (EBP), collaboration and teamwork. The higher level entry brings higher educated nurses that tend to go on to graduate programs that will bring more nurses in the fields of...
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...The Future is Here and Now Dr. Chen of The New York Times wrote “Nurses currently form the largest sector of health care providers, with more than three million currently registered; but few have led or even been involved in the formal policy discussions regarding the future care of patients.” (Chen, 2010). According to the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) report of the future of nursing tides are changing. In the paragraphs to follow this paper will discuss how the IOM report has impacted the field of nursing and how registered nurses (RNs) will be acquiring higher more specialized education, ascending into leadership, and transform their practice. Impact on Education The acquisition of a nursing license in the United States is unique in the fact that there are currently several pathways to licensure. A person wishing to practice nursing may complete a hospital diploma program, a community college associate degree in nursing (ADN), attend a four-year college for a baccalaureate degree in nursing (BSN) or even complete a bridge program in which the individual already possesses a baccalaureate degree in another field of study learns nursing practice (Creasia & Friberg, 2011, p. 25). The report from the institute of medicine (IOM) recognizes these varied pathways to nursing as a benefit as well as a hindrance to the field (Institute of Medicine, 2011, p. 166). The benefit to the field is availability of nurses due to the attractive cost of education at the diploma and community...
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...Running head: Professional Development The Professional Development of Nursing Professionals Grand Canyon University: NRS 430v/0201 09/17/2011 The Professional Development of Nursing Profession The American healthcare system has been influenced by legislature and insurance companies for many years that the focus of healthcare has shifted from caring for the patient. There is a multiple of families, individuals, and children who go without health insurance daily because they cannot afford it. The healthcare system of this nation has needed to be reformed and revitalized to ensure every person has adequate healthcare. The Institute of Medicines report is sending a message of needed changes to help reform healthcare in the nation. These messages allow nurses to have a more powerful impact on medicine. According to Thomas Sullivan’s report “nurses have the ability to act as partners with other health professionals and to lead the improvement and redesign of the healthcare” (Sullivan 2010). America will need to improve the education process, the nursing leadership, and how it views primary care for patients. The education of nurses needs to be revised to ensure that future nursing graduates have the training needed to incorporate the Institute of Medicine’s recommended changes. One change, is “nursing should practice to their full extent of their education and training.” (IOM 2010 chap.4) To accomplish this task, nurses will need to take on more responsibilities...
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...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...
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...In the face of an ever-changing health care system, as nurses, we have no choice but to change as well. The Institute of Medicine (IOM), an independent organization with a mission to, “Serve as advisor to the nation to improve health,” created a report outlining major categories of change necessary so that nurses can meet the changing health care needs of the United States (Institute of Medicine, 2010). This report, titled, “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health”, will be the focus of this paper. This paper will look at the impact of the Institute of Medicine’s report on nursing education, nursing practice in primary care, the impact of the report on the nurses as leaders, and how the author of this paper will change her practice to meet the goals of the report. One of the key points in the report states, “Nurses should practice to the full extent of their education and training” (Goeshchel, 2011). This report fully encourages nurses to never stop learning, and to prepare themselves to maintain a high level of knowledge in their field. The IOM report also follows this key message on education with recommendations for moving forward. One of the recommendations is that as a profession, nurses “increase the proportion of nurses with baccalaureate degrees to 80% by 2020” (Goeshchel, 2011). The next two recommendations are that nurses “double the number of nurses with a doctorate degree by 2020, and ensure that nurses engage in lifelong learning” (Goeshchel...
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...The Future of Nursing Practice If nurses truly “practice to the full extent of their education and training” (Institute of Medicine, 2010, p. 85), then the sky is the limit for how nurses can lead the way in developing positive changes in many different aspects of the healthcare paradigm. Although there are countless relevant literary reports on how to achieve such changes, The Institute of Medicine’s report on the Future of Nursing (2010) is held in the highest regard for the impact it could have on nursing education, nursing practice, and nursing leadership. About 55% of nurses today are prepared at a Baccalaureate Degree level (American Association of Colleges of Nursing, 2014). A key recommendation of the Future of Nursing report is to increase the number of Baccalaureate Degree prepared nurses to at least 80%. This would impact nursing education significantly, by changing the structure of the delivery of entry level nursing education, or possibly eradicating Associate’s Degree nursing programs altogether. According to Sherman (2012): Many nurses don’t realize that as part of the Bologna agreement, which was signed over a decade ago, professional nursing education in the European Union shifted to the baccalaureate level as the standard for professional licensure. Australia and New Zealand also now have BSN preparation as entry into practice. There are a number of states in the United States where there is active lobbying for legislation to require RNs to obtain a...
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...The impact of the IOM report on the future of nursing The passing of the Affordable Care Act by congress in 2010 will require the health care system to transform the future of nursing in order to keep up with the changes in health care in the United States. This paper will discuss the 2010 Institute of Medicine’s report on the impact of nursing education, nursing practice with a focus on primary care, how it will change current nursing practice and the nurse’s role as a leader. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) report was written to explore how the nursing profession should change to build a stronger health care system. A vision was developed to make quality care accessible to the diverse population of the United States, promote wellness and disease prevention, improve health outcomes and provide compassionate care across the lifespan (Institute of Medicine [IOM], 2011). Nurses must achieve higher levels of education and utilize this education and training to meet the challenges facing health care. An associate degree nurse is excellent; however a Bachelor of Science nurse (BSN) is encouraged. A BSN possesses a broader foundation of nursing including community health and leadership content. The link between lower mortality rates and educational level has also caused the BSN to be preferred. An all BSN workforce at the entry level would provide a more uniform foundation for the reconceptualized roles for nurses and new models of care that are envisioned (IOM). The ability for...
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...Future of Nursing According to IOM Report GCU Professional Dynamics NRS-430V Professor Michael Jones October 01, 2013 Future of Nursing According to IOM Report Today is a very important day in our country being that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) open enrollment begins. That means affordable healthcare for millions of Americans will be made available as of the New Year. As a nursing professional it is important to be aware of the future of healthcare reform in our country. Nurses make up the largest segment of the nation’s medical workforce and have the opportunity to join forces with other healthcare professionals and promote change in our field. In attempt to prepare for the inevitable growing demand on healthcare workers and the predicted nursing shortage, in 2008, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) partnered to form a committee to assess nursing practices and offer recommendations to transform the current healthcare system through the nursing workforce. The report includes four key messages, 1.Practice, 2. Leadership, 3. Education, and 4.Workforce. This paper is an attempt to discuss the recommendations for change by focusing on Practice, Education and Leadership. Need to Transform Practice “Nurses should practice to the full extent of their education and training” (Institute of Medicine 2010, p. 4). Nursing scope of practice includes delivering quality care that is patient centered and evidenced based...
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...The Impact of the Institute of Medicine Report on Nursing Amy Nikrasch Grand Canyon University: NRS-430V 01 December 2013 The Institute of Medicine's Impact on Nursing The United States government has identified that a health care reform is needed to ensure that all individuals have access to health care. In March 2010 President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to ensure all individuals in the United States will have access to quality health care ("Key Features Affordable Care ", 2013). Many organizations, including the Institute of Medicine (IOM), recognize that changes need to be made to the current health care system in order for Affordable Care Act to be successful. In 2010 the IOM issued a report reflecting changes needed in health care including: nursing education, nursing practice, and nursing roles as leaders (“Future Nursing”, 2010). Changes in Education According to the IOM report, nursing education is one area of health care that requires changes. Currently entry nursing is comprised of nurses with diplomas, associate degrees, baccalaureate degrees, and master's degrees. The IOM's goal is to have 80% of nurses with a minimum of a baccalaureate degree and allow them to practice to the fullest of their education and training by 2020. Health care will be shifting to more patient centered care, focusing on health promotion and preventative care with less acute and specialty care. Associate level nursing curriculums do not prepare nurses...
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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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...The Institute of Medicine’s 2010 report on The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health acknowledges the changing healthcare sector in the US and describes future vision of healthcare and the role of nurses to fulfill that vision. The United States always strives to provide affordable and quality healthcare to the entire population of the country. In order to achieve this goal an overall restructuring of the healthcare system was necessitated. Nurses are considered to be the central part of the healthcare system to provide high quality and safe patient care. Nursing in the US is the single largest segment of the healthcare workforce with almost 3 million nurses working in different areas across the county. The changing conditions in the healthcare system and new legislations to make the system more patients centered will place many demands on the healthcare professionals. The Affordable Care Act (ACA), which was enacted into law in 2010, is expected to add another 32 million people, who were hitherto uninsured, to the country’s healthcare sector. The new law provides enhanced health care through extensive health insurance reforms making insurance providers accountable, reducing health care costs, and providing quality health care for all Americans. The report uses the terms Nurse, Nursing, and Nurse Practitioner (NP) to refer to the nursing profession. Since nursing is the most important and central core of the healthcare system, there is no doubt that the newly...
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...The Impact of the 2010 Institute of Medicine (IOM) Report on the Future of Nursing in Education, Practice and Leadership Esther Edukuye Grand Canyon University: Professional Dynamics NRS 430v 5/6/12 Janet Arnold Abstract This paper seeks to expand upon the 2010 Institute of Medicine’s report on the future of nursing, leading change, advancing health and illustrating its impact on nursing education, practice and leadership. There is an ongoing transformation in the healthcare system necessitated by the need to achieve a patient centered care in the community, public, and primary care settings in contrast to previous times. Nurses occupying vital roles in the healthcare system, need improvements in the areas mentioned above to enhance needed reforms. Having reviewed the 2010 institute of medicine (IOM ) report on the Future of Nursing Leading Change Advancing Health, despite being a practicing nurse for a long time, I felt a renewed sense of call to duty. I felt better about my decision to go back to school to earn my baccalaureate degree and started to think of how I can use the knowledge I will acquire thereby, to empower myself, as related to my present field of practice and start effecting changes immediately in the areas of nursing education, practice and leadership as identified in the report, needing crucial, innovation and reform. As a nurse presently in the mainstream of practice, it is no doubt that nursing care delivery today is really impacted in so...
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...Institute of Medicine’s report on Future Nursing Compare to some other developed countries American health care is very complex and expensive. The need to develop a health care system that is affordable to every citizen is very necessary to face the challenges and get a better care to the diverse populations of the United States. Since nurse working in the front line of health care and largest health care professionals Nurses should be full partners, with other health professionals, in redesigning our health care and make sure that care is delivered safely, effectively, and compassionately. But there are some obstacles that prevent nurses from participate in the front line of health care formation. Nurses should identify these obstacle and respond immediately to play a leading role in the future and transforming health system. In 2010 the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM)published a report that focus on the future of nursing after two years of research. The report divided into three parts. Part one describes how the U.S. health care system is evolving and the committee’s vision for health care in the United States, explains why nurses have an essential role in realizing this vision and why a fundamental transformation of the nursing profession is needed.(The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health,2011, p. 17) part two details the fundamental transformation of the nursing profession that is needed to achieve the...
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