Medicine (IOM) released a report that provided an outline on how to successfully transform the nursing profession. The motives for professional change include the emphasis on healthcare reform and public access to quality of care practices. Some of the recommendations of the IOP report include removing barriers to practice and care, more opportunities for nurses to become leaders, and increase nursing education (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Institute of Medicine, 2010). The IOM report suggests
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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
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Professionals Grand Canyon University NRS-430V Professional Dynamics NRS-430V-O108 November 03, 2013 Professional Development of Nursing Professionals In 2010 the IOM produced a report addressing the challenges facing our healthcare system and outlining the vital role nursing must play in addressing those challenges (Institute of Medicine [IOM], 2010). As the needs of patients have become more complex the skills of nurses caring for them must change as well. Nurses must have the requisite skills to
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patients. In 2010, the Institute of Medicine (IOM), along with The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) completed a two year report addressing concerns on the future of healthcare pertaining to nursing education, practice and leadership in regards to the demanding increase for public healthcare. The IOM Report suggests that changes need to be made that will affect education of health care providers, how primary care is to be distributed and the impact on nurses as leaders in their profession.
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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
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the Institute of Medicine report With over three million nurses in the United States nurses play an important role in healthcare today. As the future of health care changes the nurses’ role will change as well. In 2008, The Institute of Medicine (IOM) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) combined partnership and put together a committee to assess nursing practices and make recommendations for the future transformations in the health care system. This report was released in 2010 and included
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The 2010 IOM Report: The Future of Nursing Michelle Kennedy Grand Canyon University NRS-430V April 5, 2015 The 2010 IOM Report: The Future of Nursing The Institute of Medicine (IOM) released its 2010 report called The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health and it calls for an increase in nurses working in the profession to be “80 percent BSN-prepared” by the year 2020. (An 80% BSN workforce by 2020?, n.d.). The four key messages that the committee developed included ideas
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Professional Development of Nursing Professionals The nursing profession represents one of the largest work forces in the nation with more than 3 million members. In 2008, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) partnered with the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and began 2 years of research to develop a thorough report on the future of nursing. As we move closer to the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010, nurses will be asked to take on the task of transforming the nursing workforce and
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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
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some barriers, and these barriers need to be overcome. In 2008, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) formed a committee who launched a two-year initiative to respond to the need to assess and transform the nursing profession. The IOM appointed the Committee on the RWJF Initiative on the Future of Nursing, at the IOM, with the purpose of producing a report that would make recommendations for an action-oriented blueprint for the future of nursing (The future
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