...The Future of Nursing: Education, Practice and Leadership Amber M. Crouch Grand Canyon University: Professional Dynamics October 6th, 2015 In 2008, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) began a two year project in response to the need for assessment and change in the profession of nursing. This initiative brought together a diverse group of people who, at the end of the two years, provided a detailed report entitled “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health”. The goal the committee hoped to address in the formation of this initiative was multi faceted and sought to assess how nurses could be better utilized to “address the increasing demand for safe, high quality, and effective health care services”. (policynet) This report has guidelines for improvement and recommendations for the future of nursing and seeks to clearly define and expand the roles of nurses in the future of healthcare. Education The IOM’s position in the report is that nurses of all types should be able to work to the fullest extent of their education and training. The IOM recognized the need for nursing education to “better prepare them to deliver patient-centered, equitable, safe, high-quality health care services; engage with physicians and other health care professionals to deliver efficient and effective care; and assume leadership roles in the redesign of the health care system.” (IOM) In order to do that, the report communicated...
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...The report, “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health” promotes the advancement of nursing and it’s affects on the health care system. The report focuses on four crucial areas of advancement: transformation of practice, transformation of education, transformation of leadership, and meeting the need for better data on the healthcare workforce. This paper will go into more detail about the impact of the report on transformation of practice, education and leadership. Nursing education today is not sufficient for what the future of health care needs and has in store for nurses. The report stresses the importance for an improved education system. One that will ensure the new generations of nurses are equipped with the ability to deliver safe, quality, and patient centered care. (IOM (Institute of Medicine), 2011) “To ensure the delivery of safe, patient-centered care across settings, the nursing education system must be improved. Patient needs have become more complicated, and nurses need to attain requisite competencies to deliver high quality care” (Lola, 2011, p. 7). The report stresses the need for nurses to achieve higher levels of education and training in order to achieve these competencies. The suggestion is that more nurses should be entering in to the nursing field with a bachelor’s degree then going on to obtaining a masters or doctorate’s degree. The goal is to increase the number of nurses with a bachelor’s degree from 50-80% by 2020. (IOM (Institute of...
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...The Future of Nursing Health care, according to Wikipedia,” is the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in humans.” ("Health care," n.d., p. 1) As you can see, there are a number of roles that must be filled in order to provide all aspects of health care. Nursing makes up the “largest section of the health care workforce”, according to the summary of The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health. (Committee on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative on the Future of Nursing, at the Institute of Medicine [RWJF], 2011, p. 1) Nurses fill a multitude of roles in health care ranging from Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN), Registered Nurse (RN), Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN), master’s of science in nursing (MSN), and doctor of nursing practice (DNP). Nurses are incorporated into every aspect of nursing including communities, colleges, hospitals, doctor’s offices, insurance companies, software development, law making and government. There is no better way to impact health care than to start with the largest sector: nursing. This report covers very important aspects of nursing and provides excellent examples of ways to impact the future of health care by changing the future of nursing. An excellent way to eliminate cost is to empower nurses to function in the roles they were educated and trained for. Two separate studies indicated a savings of over $1,000,000 in a year by utilizing...
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...1 The Future of Nursing Cathleen Atkins Grand Canyon University September 16th, 2012 The Future 2 The future of healthcare is dependent upon the role nurses play in the care of the patient. A committee was formed between the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Institute of Medicine to address the needs of reformation of nursing. The purpose of the study was multifold. The study looked at ways to reform our healthcare system to meet the challenges of safe, quality patient care while maintaining affordability and accessibility with the help of a transformed nursing profession. The transformation of the nursing profession focuses on three main areas. The areas include education, nurse practice setting, and the nurses’ role as a leader. The purpose of nursing education is to provide the student or nurse with the information one must possess to safely and effectively take care of a patient. The committee formed between the RWJF and the IOM state that “nursing education needs to be transformed in a number of ways to prepare nursing graduates to work collaboratively and effectively with other health professionals in a complex and evolving health care system in a variety of settings” (Shalala, Bolton, Bleich, Brennan, Campbell, Hanson, et al., 2010, p. 164). Education must provide a transition from student to nurse and from advanced registered nurse practitioner to the clinical setting. The committee calls for more nurses to have their baccalaureate degree and...
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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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...Future of Nursing Report Nursing comprise the largest group of health care workforce in the United States (US), with more than 3 million members (Institute of Medicine (IOM), 2010). Nurses can play an important role in helping to fulfill the goals set by the Affordable Care Act in 2010 (IOM, 2010). However, many obstacles are blocking nurses to advance change in the health care settings. These obstacles need to be lifted for nurses to better position themselves to advance health and lead change. The goals of this paper is to discuss the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) committee “Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health”, the importance of the IOM report on nursing workforce, Campaign for Action, state-based action coalitions and initiatives. IOM report, "Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health" In 2008, the IOM, in collaboration with RWJF, launched an initiative to meet the challenges of the nursing shortage to transform the nursing profession (IOM, 2010). With the RWJF initiative on the Future of Nursing, the IOM appointed the Committee with the intention of creating a roadmap to fulfill the RWJF objectives for the future of nursing (IOM, 2010). The RWJF recommends nurses to utilize the fullest extent of their training and education; pursue higher education and training via an educational system that promotes ease of academic progression; collaborate with inter-professionals and physicians as full partners...
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...practices. In 2010 The Institute of Medicine, sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and AARP, conducted a study on the future of nursing. The study was involved and asked the questions of “who,” “what,” “where,” “when,” “why,” and “how” of nursing to produce better quality patient care. The IOM instituted initiatives or a project plan to reform nursing care. Lets touch base on how the IOM initiatives made in impact on nursing education, nursing care, and nursing leadership roles. Education Education is a very important part of a nursing career, with advancing technology, the nurse has to stay informed and up to date. Education can be acquired by certifications and advancing in higher education. The IOM initiative has increased the awareness of the need of higher educated nurses. Nursing is broad and is advancing to public health care, preventative care, and chronic care, not just acute care. (Aiken, 2011) The IOM initiative drives the education system to help nurses pursue higher education without difficulties, like in the past. There is more programs designed to help the nurse work and go to school at the same time. The initiative implemented the idea for more funding for applicants, as well as, for the schools. The increasing need for nurse practitioners in the public health sector is another motivation to pursue a higher education in nursing. The IOM committee challenges nurses to further educate themselves to meet the needs and complexities of the patient populace...
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...professional development of nursing professionals Sosamma John Grand canyon university professional development of nursing professionals From its infancy nursing has grown to the current with all the hard woks of the pioneers of nursing. Researchers and theorists played a major role in the growth of nursing in to its current stage. according to American Nurses Association, Nursing is defined as “ protection promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities and population.”The I O M report 2010 got a vast impact on the future of Nursing .The key messages of I O M repot emphasizes on the advancement of education of nurses, improving the primary care health by better nursing participation in nursing practice and improving the nursing leaderships. As the key message from I O m report “ nurses should achieve higher levels of education and training through an improved education system that promotes seamless academic progress” It is very important to have more number of nurses entering to the nursing work force with a minimum of baccalaureate level of education. With the need of...
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...Future of Nursing Elizabeth Crandall Grand Canyon University NRS-430V Professional Dynamics February 25, 2012 In 2010 the Institute of Medicine released the results of a two year study of the role of the largest workforce in the nation’s health care system: nurses. The first key message of the IOM report is that “nurses should practice to the full extent of their education and training (Institute of Medicine [IOM], 2010, p. 2).” Expanded educational prospects and advanced training and practice opportunities will create more effective nurse leaders to play an increased role and improve our changing healthcare community in the future. It is acknowledged that there are many different roles and levels of education for nurses, from the licensed nurse at the bedside in long term care facilities to the advance practice nurse directing and providing care in the community. The increasing levels of technology in our society have demanded increased skills in both documentation and in pulling together different resources to obtain information needed to make critical decisions for patient health care. The IOM recommends that by the year 2012 80% of nurses have their bachelor degrees (IOM, 2010.) Our healthcare system is and will continue to change dramatically over the next few years as our population ages and chronic conditions increasingly impact community health. The expense and labor entailed into training physicians will not continue to be economically feasible; and while the...
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...The Future of Nursing The Institute of Medicine and the Impact on Nursing Rachel E Boyd Grand Canyon University: NRS-430V Professional Dynamics April 19, 2015 The Institute of Medicine and the Impact on Nursing The Institute of Medicine is setting the standard high for nursing and with good reason. Our healthcare system is changing and we need to be well versed and prepared for these changes. Nursing is changing politically and the way healthcare is being delivered is transitioning also. The Institute of Medicine has made a very bold statement and we in the nursing field need to make an effort to fulfill these goals set for us. These goals are set up for nurses’ best interest and giving the patients the best possible care. Better patient care is what the Institute of Medicine seems to aiming at improving. This should be the mission for all parties included when it comes to transforming the healthcare system as a whole. This will not be an easy task for the Institute of Medicine but is attainable especially with compliance from the healthcare industry. Nursing Education The Institute of Medicine is having a major impact on the nursing field and setting the educational requirements high especially for future nurses coming into this field. The expectation is for eighty percent of nurses to have a bachelor’s degree by 2020. The goals set by the Institute of Medicine is understandable and the push is very necessary. The direction that healthcare is going we have...
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...Future of Nursing in Healthcare In the United States, the healthcare system is being overhauled and transformed to provide quality healthcare at affordable prices. This transformation is going to effect the nursing profession even more so. In 2010, The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law to provide more accessible and more affordable care. The committee on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative on the Future of Nursing, at the Institute of Medicine (IOM) developed a vision for a transformed health care system (National Research Council, 2011). This committee conceives a future system that makes quality care accessible to the diverse populations of the United States. In this conceived future, primary care and prevention are central to the health care system (National Research Council, 2011). Examining the importance of the future of nursing on nursing practice, nursing education, and the nurse’s role as a leader in the transformation of the healthcare system according to the IOM will be discussed. Nursing Practice The practice of nursing is crucial to the future of the healthcare system. The number of Nurse Practitioners (NP’s) and physician assistants are increasing, while the number of residents and medical students entering primary care has declined (National Research Council, 2011, p.88). Nurses have the opportunity to lead innovative strategies to improve our health care system, but there are barriers to transforming nursing practice. There are...
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...The Future of Nursing Grand Canyon University; NRS 430: Professional Dynamics Josh Lake April 26, 2013 The Future of Nursing Introduction The United States is facing the largest health care reform in recent history. Nursing, along with other disciplines, will be at the fore front of this enormous transition. Up to this point nursing has played an essential role in the delivery and management of care. To continue to play a pivotal role nursing must elevate its practice to meet the needs of an ever changing health care delivery system. Advances in nursing practice will aide in changing and making health care more affordable, safe and effective. This paper will discuss how nursing, as a profession, can rise to the occasion through elevation of education, primary care practice, and leadership as outlined in the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report: The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health. This paper will also discuss how the author will alter personal practice to meet the goals of the IOM report. Education Advancement The Need for Advancement Since its inauguration nursing education has progressed and reformed to meet the needs of the client and the health care delivery system of the time. Issues in health care have influenced the role of education in preparing nurses to deliver safe and effective care and advocate for their patients. Nursing shortages have prompted multiple levels of education for entry level nurses. There are three pathways that have...
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...Future Of Nursing Elizabeth Lang NRS 430V November 4, 2012 The Affordable Care Act (ACA) enacted into law in 2010, is expected help the 32 million people without insurance in the United States healthcare sector. In 2008, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) approached the Institute of Medicine (IOM) proposed a partnership to assess and respond to the need to transform the nursing profession to meet the upcoming new challenges and needs from the ACA. After two years of intense discussions and consultations, they released in 2010 a report on the future of nursing. According to the report The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health, “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 care across the lifespan. In this envisioned future, primary care and prevention are central drivers of the health care system. Interprofessional collaboration and coordination are the norm”(IOM, page 2). Currently, with 3 million nurses in practice, nurses make up the largest segment of health care workers. “Nurses thus are poised to help bridge the gap between coverage and access, to coordinate increasingly complex care for a wide range of patients, to fulfill their potential as primary care providers to the full extent of their education and training, and to enable the full economic...
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...The Future of Nursing In 2010 the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJK), a subsidiary of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), issued a report on nursing called, The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health, (http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2010/The-Future-of-Nursig-Leadership-Change-Advancing-Health.aspx). According to the IOM official website, (http://www.iom.edu/), “…the IOM provides independent, objective, evidence-based advice to policy makers, health professional, the private sector, and the public. The IOM advises Congress on important health questions, from the quality of medical care to conflicts of interest in medical research”. The IOM also states that they make honest calls and request that the highest standards be provided to the public and will provide information to decision makers so regulations or policies can be changed to improve health, (http://www.iom.edu/About-IOM/Making-a-Difference.aspx). The IOM is a highly respected non-biased institution, with its elected members consisting of individuals known for excellence in their field of practice; suggestions made by the IOM carries a great deal clout. The 2010 report suggest some major changes need to me made in nursing to keep up with the demanding field of health care. The Future of Nursing Report listed eight recommendations and four focus points on how and why nursing needs to change, focusing primarily on nursing education, leadership, and practice. With the Affordable Care Act of 2010,...
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...The Future of Nursing Tammy Rose Grand Canyon University October 11, 2013 The Future of Nursing The Affordable Care Act was passed to ensure that quality healthcare would be available and that everyone in the United States would have access to it. The entire structure of healthcare is about to change in the United States, and the passing of the ACA will be the pivotal turning point. The purpose of this reform is to build up the nursing profession which is the largest portion of the healthcare workforce today (Institute of Medicine, 2011). RWJF and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) together responded to the concerns about how quality care could be delivered to patients and how the role of nursing could assist in it. 18 members make up the IOM, and were asked to develop an evidence based report on how nursing could meet the demands of health care reform. The committee reached the conclusion that nurses are distinctively qualified to manage and take care of an increasingly variety of patients because nurses understand the process of care. They were also asked to make it possible for the people who live in the United States to be able to obtain health insurance at an affordable price (Institute of Medicine, 2011). In 2010, the committee published, “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health” (Institute of Medicine, 2011). Instead of taking the viewpoint from the nursing profession, the committee chose to get the public’s view. By allowing the public...
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