...Professional Development of Nursing Professionals A committee on Robert Wood Johnson foundation collaborated with the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to develop a project on the future of nursing back in 2008. In 2010 the IOM released a report on the initiative named The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health. Part II of the report describes the needed changes of the nursing profession in order to advance the whole health care system. The IOM “envisions a future where primary care and prevention are central drivers of the health care system, inter-professional collaboration and coordination are the norm, and payment for health care services rewards value, not volume of services, and quality care is provided at a price that is affordable for both individuals and society” (IOM, 2010). This report was supported by evidence-based practice which contributed for the high endorsement of the report from the American Nursing Association (ANA). In this paper I would like to focus on three major sections of the project, namely transforming of nursing education, nursing practice and nursing leadership. The report underlines the deep changes in nursing education that need to be implemented in the following years. Even though the main goal of the nursing education remains to prepare the future nurses and nursing specialist to provide quality and safe care to a diverse population, the education needs to evolve in ways that encourage working in teams with other health professionals...
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...PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF NURSING PROFESSIONALS Grand Canyon University NRS-430V. April 27, 2014 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF NURSING PROFESSIONALS In 1970, The National Academy of Sciences established the Institute of Medicine (IOM), a non-governmental, non-profit organization, developed to provide advice on the national level that addresses issues of medical care, education, and research. Through research, collected data, and nurse-led solutions, the IOM created an informative report in 2010 called The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health, which provides specific recommendations on the improvement of the nursing workforce and the healthcare delivery system. The report is directed towards various entities; individual policy makers, national state and government leaders, licensing bodies, educational institutions and consumer advocates, are just to name a few. Three particular recommendations, transforming education, transforming practice and transforming leadership, will be further discussed to display how each transformation will impact changes in the nursing profession and the health care delivery system. Transforming Education The first recommendation to be discussed that will impact change in the nursing profession and the health care delivery system is the transformation of education. The IOM report states that “nurses should achieve higher levels of education and training through an improved education system that promotes seamless academic progression”...
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...Professional Development of Nursing Professionals The nursing profession plays a vital role in the nation’s health care workforce. Currently there are 3 million members thus it is imperative that nursing be ready to respond to the rapid evolving health care system. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) worked over 2 years to produce a report that would be available to make recommendations and serve as an action-oriented blue print to the nursing professionals. This paper will discuss the impact on nursing due to the recommendations on the IOM report regarding transforming education, transforming practice, and transforming leadership. (Institute of Medicine, 2011) Impact on Nursing Education The IOM report made a key point in which “nurses should achieve higher levels of education and training through an improved education system that promotes seamless academic progression” (Institute of Medicine, 2011, p. 164). As the year’s progress it is vital that nursing education be transformed to stay current with today’s evolving health care. The IOM reports that even though the nursing profession must be transformed to work in a variety of complex settings however, they recognized that the primary goal of nursing education should still be that nurses prepared to meet diverse patients’ needs; function as leaders; and advance science that benefits patients and the capacity of health professionals to deliver safe, quality patient care. (Instiute of Medicine, 2011) The IOM report emphasized...
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...2010 IOM Report on The Future of Nursing Robert Loperfido Felician Health Policy and Politics NURS 385 Helena Correia RNC, MSN August 18, 2014 The Impact of the 2010 IOM Report on The Future of Nursing The United States is at a significant junction. Health care reforms are being carried out and the system is beginning to change. The largest component of the health care workforce is nurses and the needs to strengthen this group will only improve the delivery of care and the health care system. The IOM and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation established that accessible, high quality care cannot be achieved without extraordinary nursing care and leadership (American Nurses Association, 2014, p. 1). The report calls on nurses individually and as a profession to embrace changes needed to promote health, prevent illness and care for people across the lifespan. The report also calls for support from interprofessional collaborations from physicians, dieticians, physical therapist and other multisector professions to work with nurses to make the changes necessary for a more accessible, cost efficient and high quality health care system. This report expands on the theme that high quality, safe, evidence based patient centered care is a critical role of nursing and that to have a successful health care system rests on the future of nursing (Institute of Medicine, 2010). In 2010 the President signed into law and Congress approved health care legislation called the Affordable...
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...Transforming the Nursing Profession The transformation of the nursing profession is dependent upon formal education, evidence based nursing practice, and providing strong leadership roles at all levels of the health care system. The nursing education encourages lifelong learning that includes seamless academic progression (Robert Wood Foundation, 2010). The nursing practice incorporates both standards of practice and professional accountability. Strong leadership focuses on safety and quality of care to realize the vision of transformed health care. (Robert Wood Foundation, 2010). All of these are equally important to produce a highly qualified nursing workforce that provides value based quality care and takes the leadership role in transforming the nursing profession. Transforming Education – The Impact of the IOM Report on Nursing Education: The current nursing workforce involves different levels of education and training like licensed vocational nurse (LVN), associate degree, diploma, and bachelor’s degree. This leads to confusion and inconsistency in care. “Nurses should achieve higher levels of education and training through an improved education system that promotes seamless academic progression” (Robert Wood Foundation, 2010). The purpose of the nursing education is to meet diverse cultural patient’s needs, take the leadership role in the health care system, and use evidence based knowledge to provide cost effective quality care. The nursing profession is dynamic in...
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...Running Head: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF NURSING PROFESSIONALS Professional Development of Nursing Professionals Animol Aphrem Grand Canyon University July,22 2012 To represent more than 3 million health care members nursing profession is one of the major divisions of work force in United States. Nurses played an important role in setting the 2010 Affordable Act, legislation and creating Medicare and Medicaid programs. There are lot of hurdles inhibits nurses to respond successfully with reforming healthcare system. In order to overcome these obstacles nurses are well educated and well positioned in healthcare system to lead these changes. In 2008, Institute of Medicine and Robert Johnson Foundation appointed a committee to evaluate the need for healthcare transformation. Committee made some recommendations regarding improve education and training of nurses, nurses need to achieve highest level of education, nurses should collaborate with other healthcare professional to redesign healthcare system and accurate planning of work force for data collection. According to the report the committee suggested that many problems facing nursing education system nursing education system need to be advanced. Impact of IOM report on education. In 21st century statistics shows that there are many health issues affecting American population and it will be increased to 20 percent of the population by 2030.In addition to that nation’s health care needs also increasing. Primary...
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...Professional Development of Nursing Professionals Professional Dynamics NRS-430V February 14, 2016 Professional Development of Nursing Professionals Health care has changed a lot in the past century and continues to keep evolving. Nurses play a crucial part in health care. There are many ways in which nursing has evolved with the times but there are also some areas in which it has not. In 2011, The Committee on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative on the Future of Nursing at the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released a report discussing the future of the nursing profession. The report describes what nursing education, practice, and leadership looks like today and how it needs to change for the future. Transforming Education The IOM reports a nationwide goal of eighty percent of the nursing workforce being educated at the baccalaureate level by year 2020. This is necessary to move nursing practice to a broader set of competencies, particularly in community and public health, leadership, research, and health policy (Committee on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2011). This goal is achievable because a lot of the educational capacity needed already exists. Online programs such as the RN-BSN, RN-MSN, and BSN-MSN options are beneficial to those already in the workforce and those with families (Committee on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2011). Community colleges in some states now offer baccalaureate degrees (Rosseter, 2015). Hospitals typically offer financial...
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...Running Head: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Professional Development of Nursing Professionals Professional Development of Nursing Professionals Review of the IOM report: The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health The major impact on the nursing side of the question seems to be three fold and the main emphasis is that the future health system will be patient oriented and technologically advanced and therefore the nurses should achieve better education and training and the learning will be lifelong and the academic institutions must provide a seamless academic progression for the nurse. Thus the concept of educating the potential nursing graduates and providing them with modern tools and at the same time including the existing professionals and upgrading them to be more equipped in terms of “care management, quality improvement methods, systems-level change management” seems to be the major motto of the report. (Institute of Medicine (IOM), 2011b) The role of the nurse is seen from a different light, that of a decision maker and major participant in the health process. Major emphasis is paid to the undergraduate nursing education, which now will provide multiple educational pathways. Secondly the directives attempt is to give a greater role to nurses, which means greater responsibility and decision making, and nurses are enjoined to be on an equal partnership with physicians and other personnel...
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...PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF NURSING PROFESSIONALS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF NURSING PROFESSIONALS “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”-Goethe This is the mission statement of the Institute of Medicine report of 2010, the future of Nursing: Leading Change and Advancing Health. Currently, the health care system in the United States is facing the greatest storm fir reform, with the enactment of comprehensive health care legislation and the signing of the Affordable Care Act(ACA), which focuses on supplying super quality, safer, more assessable and much affordable care. Nursing being the largest portion of the health care workforce has an eminent role to play in the transformation and remodeling of the various aspect of the health care system. This report committee provided high level suggestions that unanimously served as a blueprint, to empower nurses to fully adopt their critical role in renovating the current system. The final report contain four key messages: 1) make sure that nurses can practice to the horizon of their education and training (2) improve nursing education, (3) brings prospects for nurses to assume leadership positions and serve as full partners to upgrade health care and improvement efforts, and (4) systematic data collection for manpower planning and policy making. Hence, the Institute of Medicine report of 2010 has made a major impact on the nursing professional practice education and leadership. ...
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...the Future of Nursing in Education, Practice and Leadership NRS-430V Professional Dynamics September 12 2012 This paper focuses on expanding the impact of Institute of Medicine report on future of nursing, leading change, advancing health and illustrates its impact on nursing education, practice and leadership. Focus of this report highlights re structuring of the health care system to provide better service to patients. Today nursing is recognized as a promising career and has gained much significance over the years, several programs for becoming a nursing professional are being offered by universities, community colleges and hospital based schools. Since the mid 20th century, demands for nursing professional have been on an up rise, there has been a tremendous increase in the number of nursing graduates in the last decade (NLN, 2010b). The focus of nursing education have shifted to new dimensions such as community health, public health, primary care, geriatrics, disease prevention, health promotion and other areas rather than being limited to a particular area. And this is mainly to prepare nurse to deal with evolving health care system. Demand for nurses produced high amount of entry-level nurses, the study emphasizes highly educated nurses are preferred to handle todays today’s health care challenges. By 2020 the nursing work force should consist of 80% BSN (Bachelor of Science in Nursing) prepared nurses. Achieving this targeted BSN level nursing workforce involves...
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...Initiatives in Health Care Introduction The relationship between the external quality and value initiatives in health care has been widely discussed in academic literature. Actually, this issue is of great importance as it reflects the role of patient satisfaction in healthcare. According to researchers, “in health care, the whole notion of quality has become a source of confusion and sometimes a distraction from genuine value improvement” (McClellan, 2008, p. 23). Quality is affected by patient outcomes and satisfaction. At the same time, quality helps to determine the value in healthcare. Many quality and value initiatives are aimed at reducing health care disparities that exist in American healthcare system, as well as at improving the quality of care (McClellan, 2008). Generally speaking, various quality of care initiatives contribute to the overall success of any health are organization, including financial success and success of nursing practices. To achieve higher level of quality of health care services, it is necessary to use effective mechanisms, which involve certain changes, such as additional staffing, new equipment, adequate audits, and other changes. Health care organizations should be focused on overcoming any barriers to successful quality improvement. Quality and values initiatives in health care help to achieve this goal. The major goal of this paper is to discuss the relationship between the external quality and value initiatives in health care...
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...Abstract Nursing career is one of the few fastest growing fields in the health care industry not only in the United States but also in the world. Nurse practice has drastically changed in the last decade and as a result the need for changes in nursing practice is becoming more and more important. The Institute of Medicine report discusses so many aspects in nursing but this paper requires detailing the impacts on Nursing Practice (Transforming Practice), Nursing Education (Transforming Education), and the Nurse’s role as a Leader (Transforming Leadership). These three key aspects are discussed in the following pages. Professional Development of Nursing Professionals: Impact on Future of Nursing The key points that the Institute of Medicine report covers are that nurses should be able to practice their full potential and extent based on the training and the education (Transforming Practice); the nurses should be able to achieve excellence in improved system of education and as well training (Transforming Education); and nurses should partner in full with doctors and professionals in health care in the redesigning of practices (Transforming Leadership). Impact of Report on Transforming Education The report recommends five core competencies to be integrated in the nursing education. They are, patient centered care, working with other interdisciplinary teams, emphasize practice based on evidence, seeking improvement in quality, and informatics. Computer skills and information...
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...Professional Development of Nursing Professionals: The Impact of the IOM Report, Nursing a Change for the Future Dina Gibson Grand Canyon University: NRS-430V February 10, 2013 Professional Development of Nurses: The Impact of the IOM Report, Nursing a Change for the Future The health care field is always growing and changing. With this advancement in technologies, it is important for the members of the professional health care field to grow with it. According to Robert Wood Johnson (2010), “With more than 3 million members, the nursing profession is the largest segment of the nation’s health care workforce” (Institute of Medicine 2010 pg1). A pathway needs to be cleared so that nurses can play an instrumental role in the improvement of the health care system. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the impact of the IOM (Institute of Medicine) report on nursing education, the impact of the IOM report on nursing practice, and the impact of the IOM report on the nurse’s role as a leader in the future of nursing care. The Impact of the IOM Report on Nursing Education There are many different educational paths one can choose when becoming a registered nurse (RN). These include the bachelors of Science (BSN), the associate’s degree (ADN), and the diploma in nursing. All three pathways are required to take National Council of State Board of Nursing (NCSBN). This exam measures competency for an entry level RN to begin practice. According to Robert Wood Johnson (2010),...
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...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 improved health care system...
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...Clearly, the future of nursing is heading for some significant changes. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health”, from 2011 highlights the changes facing the medical field, particularly related to nursing, and the obstacles we as nurses must face and overcome to continue to deliver effective, quality care to all patient populations. According to the IOM report, the passing of the Affordable Care Act (IOM report p. 21) will greatly affect the delivery of care, and nurses need to be ready to accept the challenges, “The ACA represents the broadest changes to the health care system since the 1965 creation of the Medicare and Medicaid programs and is expected to provide insurance coverage for an additional 32 million previously uninsured Americans. The need to improve the health care system is becoming increasingly evident as challenges related to both the quality and costs of care persist” (IOM report, p. 21). The key factors involved in nurses having the competency to meet the higher standards being set are based on: the transformation of nursing practice, the modification of nursing education, and the cultivation of nurses taking a more active leadership role. Transforming nursing practice can occur several ways. The IOM report stresses the importance of this transformation to take place to improve care of the more diverse population of patients. It states that, “…the system must undergo and fundamental shift to...
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