Abstract With an increased number of medical discoveries, the nursing field is changing radically. To be able to provide excellent health care to the people, it is imperative that some of the guidelines involving nurses change. More education, more liberties, and more training are a few examples of what should change to be able to achieve this. Although nurses are a big part of achieving this, it is also the responsibility of others, including the government and health care facilities.

IOM’s Impact on the Future of Nursing
With the world rapidly changing and the population growing more and more each day, it is now very important to be able to provide better health care for the people. Not only is better health care needed, but it is very important that with improved health care comes upgraded equipment. Recently, there have been many new medical discoveries that the way things currently work in the medical facilities need to be updated frequently. Nurses are some of the most important when it comes to taking care of the patients, and because of this, in 2010 the IOM (Institute of Medicine) developed a plan to change the future of nursing and to expand the amount and quality of education, the equipment used, and to change the nurse’s role in the safety and comfort of the patients when it comes to their health.
The IOM report stated that one of the modifications that would occur would be changing the amount of education a nurse should receive. He or she should be exposed to a greater amount of learning and hands on training to ensure that we have some of the best nurses and excellent health care in the country. They have to be able to learn new things throughout their careers, just like the physicians they see every day are doing. Just like doctors, they should be able to have access to the same learning equipment to be able to be kept up to date with the most