How the IOM Report will Impact Nursing Education and Nursing Practice.
Lisa Arroyo
Grand Canyon University
Professional Dynamics
NRS-430V
Professor Varnell Hudson
August 28, 2013

How the IOM Report will Impact Nursing Education and Nursing Practice.

The focus of the report is to show a need for more education for the graduate level nurse and a continued education plan for nurses already in the field. The IOM cited many reports that touched on the need for diversity amongst nursing graduates to meet the need to function as leaders and the dimensions of health professionals to deliver safe and excellent patient care (Johnson, 2010). The transformation of clinical practice key message was changing a nurse’s role (Johnson, 2010). This would require changing the old nurse roll to a more involved role using critical thinking, clinical judgment and nursing process (Creasia, 2011). The focus on other topics beyond the provision the NCLEX-RN would need to alter the test to encompass a more diverse multitude of questions that would be considered critical thinking (Johnson, 2010).

The impact of the IOM report on transforming education is to incorporate more consistent competencies among nursing schools (Johnson, 2010). By providing nursing facilities with strategies to integrate quality and safety content into their curricula, with an interactive course work focused on a six core Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN), competencies. Using a Train the Trainer approach that helps to lead the institutions faculty to incorporate, to teach and mentor students, to train faculty to accomplish these goals (Barnsteiner, et al., 2012). They introduced a process approved to Educational Rigor of Curricula Development: Draft Modules: including papers, references, glossary, resources. Internal Review: reviewed by AACN and Authors. External Review: by expert