...Impact of IOM Report on Nursing Rebecca M. Hemker Grand Canyon University: NUR 430 September 14, 2014 IMPACT OF IOM REPORT ON NURSING In 2010, the United States healthcare system began its dramatic transformation as the president signed comprehensive healthcare legislation into law. The legislation, cumulatively referred to as the Affordable Care Act (ACA), offered 32 million, previously uninsured Americans, access to affordable health insurance (IOM, 2011). As Americans rejoiced and signed up for insurance, concern mounted as to whether the current healthcare system could tolerate the increased patient load. The nursing profession, in particular, was expected to face several obstacles in response to a transformed healthcare system (Trouble, 2014). According to an article in Health Affairs, addressing these obstacles requires effective production and use of the nursing workforce (Rother & Lavizzo-Mourey, 2009). In an effort to guide the impending increase of Americans expected to seek healthcare, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) along with the Committee on the Robert Wood Foundation (RWJF) formed an initiative on the future of nursing. The 2-year initiative served as an action-based model for the restructuring of the nursing profession (IOM, 2011). The committee identified four key messages that guided the IOM discussion including the future of nursing education, nursing practice and the nurse’s role as a leader. The key messages and recommendations of the initiative...
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...How Will the 2010 IOM Report Influence Nursing? Grand Canyon University: 430V July 13, 2017 How Will the 2010 IOM Report Change Nursing? The Institute of Medicine is a nonprofit organization not related to the government, which provides unbiased advice to the general public as well as lawmakers in regard to healthcare decisions. The Affordable Care Act was signed into law in 2010 and this was the biggest health care reform in decades. The Afford Care Act provides millions of Americans with health coverage who previously were without. This will cause changes in our health care system and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) issued a report in 2010 specifying what changes they think need to take place within the healthcare system to meet the needs of the public. This paper will discuss the impact on nursing resulting from the Institute of Medicine report: “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health.” Specifically it addresses the impact on education, primary care practice, and nurse leadership roles. The Impact on Education One key message in the IOM report states that nurses need to achieve higher levels of education by having a better education system that easily allows progress from one degree to the next. (IOM, 2010) In fact one of the recommendations is for eighty percent of nurses to have a Bachelors of Science degree by the year 2020. This is an increase of thirty percent. How is this report having an impact? According to the Future of Nursing...
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...growing profession. A registered nurse is required to be capable enough to adapt to the modern techniques, equipments, and knowledge based procedure. According to the Institute of Medicine nursing is one of the biggest workforces in healthcare. By starting a transformation in the nursing field, there can be change in the healthcare industry (Committee on the Robert Wood Johnson foundation 2011). The Institute of Medicine, on October 5, 2010, released their research based report “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health” as a recommendation to improve nursing. Nurse must be able to provide the public accessible and high quality healthcare, there needs to be a higher standard of healthcare and highly educated nurses Impact of the IOM report on nursing education The education nurses acknowledged during the twentieth century are no longer adequate enough to handle the requirements of today’s healthcare. “Nurses should achieve higher levels of education and training through an improved education system that promotes flawless academic progression.”(Institute of Medicine, 2010). As the healthcare field moves forward, technology has played a major role. As technology advance, patient needs and healthcare setting have become more complex, nurses are required to acquire higher education to deliver high-quality and safe healthcare. Higher education in nursing includes Baccalaureate degree in Nursing, Doctorate in Nursing in Nursing Practice (Institute of Medicine...
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...Running head: THE IMPACT ON NURSING OF THE 2010 IOM REPORT ON The Impact on Nursing of the 2010 IOM Report on Future Nursing Marylin Estes Grand Canyon University: NRS-430V September 23, 2011 The Impact on Nursing of the 2010 IOM Report on Future Nursing . The 2010 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report along with Robert Wood Johnson (RWJ) conducted a study to gain insight on a number of barriers that restrict nurses from responding effectively to rapidly changing health care systems, the need to assess and transform the nursing profession. In this report, “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health” (Institute of Medicine, 2010) they determined that our health care system was selling patients short on affordable, safe, quality care. The IOM founded four key messages: that nurses should fully utilize their education and training, nurses should continue to further their education, should work in a partnership with physicians and all other health care professionals, and have more structured policies to ensure better data collection and information. This paper will include the impact of nursing education, nursing practice, and the role of the nurse as a leader. According to the IOM report on nursing education, the U.S. health care systems will require serious changes in the education of nurses before and after achieving a license to help with the transition of the nursing roles and responsibilities. The goal will remain the same as nurses will continue...
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...DKKD Save Link Assignment Professional Development of Nursing Professionals View Rubric Due Date: Mar 23, 2014 23:59:59 Max Points: 200 Details: Review the IOM report: The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2010/The-Future-of-Nursing-Leading-Change-Advancing-Health.aspx, focusing on the following sections: Transforming Practice, Transforming Education, and Transforming Leadership. In order to access the report, locate “Get this Report” and click on “Read Report Online for Free”. When the report is downloaded, it will open up to page 1. Use the table of contents, located on the right, to navigate to the required sections. Create a paper (750-1,000 words) about the impact on nursing of the 2010 IOM report on the Future of Nursing. Include: 1.The impact of the IOM report on nursing education. 2.The impact of the IOM report on nursing practice, particularly in primary care, and how you would change your practice to meet the goals of the IOM report. 3.The impact of the IOM report on the nurse’s role as a leader. This assignment uses a grading rubric. Instructors will be using the rubric to grade the assignment; therefore, students should review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations for successful completion of the assignment. Please Note: Assignment will not be submitted to the faculty member until the "Submit"...
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...Running head: The impact on nursing of the 2010 IOM Report The Impact on nursing of the 2010 IOM report on the future of nursing. THE IMPACT ON NURSING OF THE 2010 IOM REPORT ON THE FUTURE OF NURSING. The institute of medicine and the Robert Wood Johnson foundation formed a Committee to look into ways of making nursing a strong profession where nurses become partners and leaders to improve health care in the period of health care reforms, this led to the creation of Robert Wood Johnson initiative (RWJF) on the future of nursing in conjunction with the Institute of medicine (IOM), The Committee made some recommendations on nursing in the United States titled “ The future of Nursing: Leading change, advancing health” The RWJF and IOM worked on this project for two years.in order to study, research learn and understand the implications for nursing as a profession being the largest component of health care workforce of this anticipated changes in health care. To realize this vision of transforming the health care system into a safe, accessible, patient centered care, this will require improved nursing education before and after nurses are licensed. The RWJF and IOM considered many challenges that face nursing education and proffered solutions that will assist in advancing the health care system, the Committee determined that nurses should be trained at higher levels of education by improving...
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...Impact of Institute of Medicine Report on Nursing Edith Ludlum Grand Canyon University: Professional Dynamics NRS-430V November 15, 2014 The 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA) rolled out and became the largest healthcare transformation the United States had since the development of the Medicare and Medicaid programs in 1965. Under this system all Americans would have access to health care. Because of this legislation there are now more than 32 million more people that have access to health care. In our ever evolving healthcare, Nurses, who are the largest group in our nation’s healthcare workforce, are going to play a big role in meeting the demands of the healthcare system (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2011). This paper will look at the Institute of Medicine, their report: “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health.”(IOM, 2010), and the impact that the report has on nursing education, nursing practice and the nurse’s role as a leader. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) was established in 1970, and is the health arm of the National Academy of Sciences. “The IOM is an independent, nonprofit organization that works outside of government to provide unbiased and authoritative advice to decision makers and the public.” (National Academy of Sciences, 2013) The IOM not only advises Congress on important health questions but it helps other federal agencies and independent organizations. After two years of research, the IOM presented their report “The Future...
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...The Impact of the Institute of Medicine report on the Future of Nursing Sara Hoover Grand Canyon University: NRS 430V Professional Dynamics September 7th, 2014 The Impact of the Institute of Medicine report on the Future of Nursing In 2010, the Institute of Medicine released a report titled, “The Future of Nursing; Leading Change, Advancing Health.” The Institute of Medicine collaborated with The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and for two years looked at the impact of the changing environment of health care delivery in the United States, and how nurses factor into the evolving health care system (www.IOM.edu). The joint initiative details 8 recommendations to remove what they determined to be existing barriers “preventing nurses from being able to respond effectively to rapidly changing health care settings” so that nurses, the largest profession in health care, are better equipped and supported in realizing the objectives of the 2010 Affordable Care Act (www.IOM.edu). IOM Recommendations Recommendation 1 Remove scope-of-practice barriers so that advanced practice nurses are able to practice to the full extent of their education and training (www.IOM.edu). This recommendation would empower nurses to be leaders in health care, working side-by-side with physicians, and promoting nursing as more than carrying out tasks ordered by physicians. Recommendation 2 Expand opportunities for nurses to lead and diffuse collaborative improvement efforts (www...
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...regarding the future care of patients.” (Chen, 2010). According to the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) report of the future of nursing tides are changing. In the paragraphs to follow this paper will discuss how the IOM report has impacted the field of nursing and how registered nurses (RNs) will be acquiring higher more specialized education, ascending into leadership, and transform their practice. Impact on Education The acquisition of a nursing license in the United States is unique in the fact that there are currently several pathways to licensure. A person wishing to practice nursing may complete a hospital diploma program, a community college associate degree in nursing (ADN), attend a four-year college for a baccalaureate degree in nursing (BSN) or even complete a bridge program in which the individual already possesses a baccalaureate degree in another field of study learns nursing practice (Creasia & Friberg, 2011, p. 25). The report from the institute of medicine (IOM) recognizes these varied pathways to nursing as a benefit as well as a hindrance to the field (Institute of Medicine, 2011, p. 166). The benefit to the field is availability of nurses due to the attractive cost of education at the diploma and community college level versus the more expensive four year college route (Institute of Medicine, 2011, p. 168). The barrier of this pathway; however, has been discussed in the IOM report. According to research, 80 percent of the time ADN graduates do not continue their...
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...on three aspects; practice, education and leadership. By changing this, nurses are more focused on primary as opposed to specialty care. The healthcare system is advancing every day and this requires nurses to advance in their education too. Particular focus should be given to how to improve quality in healthcare, organization level management and nurses should be educated with the physicians and other healthcare professionals. Strong leadership is critical in transforming healthcare system as well and this should begin from bedside and to boardroom. By transforming these, we will be able to provide high quality, more reasonable and safer care to our patients. . Impact of the IOM report on practice Nursing is one of the most adaptable profession in the healthcare industry and because of this versatility new career pathways have opened for nurses. Nurses have been an enabling force for change in health care along many dimensions (Aiken et al., 2009).Nursing has become increasingly integral part of the healthcare services, so in the future without having large number of nurses healthcare industry is impossible to function. The transformation particularly focuses on primary care, and today nurse practitioners along with the physicians and physicians assistants provide most of the care in this area....
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...A Review of the IOM Report and its Impact on the Future of Nursing Focusing on Nursing Education, Primary Care and Leadership Nursing as we know it has evolved from the days of Florence Nightingale to be part of today’s complex health care system. The demands and the expectations of the patient and the society in general has gone beyond basic good bedside nursing. Although the public trusts nurses to provide good care, they also see nurses as assistants without much say or assistants in the health care field who dress wounds, give injections and so on. In order to change direction of nursing to be able to meet the current demands of the profession and for the other health care professionals to see nurses as equal allies, an overhaul is required. To address this issue, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) teamed up with the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to find ways to bridge the gap between the nursing we have today and the nursing that can meet future demands. “The Institute of Medicine is an independent non-profit organization that works outside of the government to provide unbiased and authoritative advice to decision makers and the public” (2010). Their goal is to reform the US health care system. To achieve this objective, they focused among other things, on nursing education, leadership role, and practice, particularly primary care. In writing this paper, I will focus on how the IOM intends to improve nursing education, nursing practice, and in particular primary...
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...The Impact of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Report Mallory Hall Grand Canyon University January 24, 2016 The institute of Medicine (IOM) is an organization that was established in 1970 (Medicinenet, 2012) “that works outside the framework of government to provide evidence-based research and recommendations for public health and science policy.” It is an independent organization that assists people who are in decision-making positions. In October of 2010, the IOM released a report titled “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health”. According to the American Nurses Association (ANA, 2011), the report “calls on nurses to take a greater role in America’s increasingly complex health care system.” There are four categories in which the report outlines. The first message from the report states that (Institute of Medicine, 2010) “Nurses should practice to the full extent of their education and training.” During earlier time periods of nursing, the focus of health care was quite different than in today’s age. (Institute of Medicine, 2011) “As patient needs and care environments have become more complex, nurses need to attain requisite competencies to deliver high-quality of care.” The competencies include system improvement, leadership, research and evidence-based practice, teamwork and collaboration, health policy and competencies that focus on certain content areas. Nurses need to adapt to the changes in the health care system by increasing these competencies...
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...The Impact of The IOM Report on Nursing Mariama Jalloh Grand Canyon University Professional Dynamics NRS-430V-0500 Teresa Gaither June 21, 2015 The Impact of The IOM Report on Nursing The Institute of Medicine (IOM) is an independent, nonprofit organization, which was established in 1970. Their aim is to provide advice to all level of healthcare sectors to ensure that effective healthcare policies are being implemented. In the late 2010, IOM released a special report “The Future of Nursing: Leading change, Advancing health”. The report contains three messages related to nursing, which focus on the following sections: transforming practice, transforming education and transforming leadership. This paper focuses on the IOM report and how it impacts nursing education. This paper will also discuss the role of a nurse as a leader and their practice, particularly in primary care. Lastly, this paper will disclose how I would change my practice to meet the goals of the IOM report. Firstly, the IOM report also stated that it is crucial that a nurse must have training from an accredited institution system to so they can be ready contribute at their work (IOM, 2010). Educational standard has influence perceptions about nurses. Academics and professionals have hotly debated the minimum education needed by nurses for several decades. The IOM report also discuss and offer the reason why nurses having a higher level of education is a must; Nursing practice have expand greatly, they...
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...THE IMPACT OF THE INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE REPORT ON NURSING Looking back, the health care system has changed rapidly within decades. Medical discoveries and technical improvements in health care have resulted in exceptional complexity. To be able to provide the best possible care to meet those standards, it becomes a necessity to review and revise guidelines to meet these goals. In 2010, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) prepared and published its ambitious report to support the development of a new health care system for the 21st-century. It calls for nurses to take leadership to transition to a high quality care for an increasing number of patients ("IOM," 2010). To meet this goal, a transformation in education, nursing practice and leadership is demanded. It is imperative for nurses to be knowledgeable and to play an active part in this interesting but challenging time of change. To be prepared for the healthcare modification, the key element towards success is education to build a strong workforce. To ensure safe care and foster critical thinking skills for more complex patient needs, irremissible competencies are required. Beside the basic educational nursing standards, new competencies are emerging. The focus for competencies as improving quality, understanding research and evidence- based practice, making decisions, thinking systematically and leading a team must become part for every nurse in any level of education. A higher level of training becomes necessary...
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...Impact of the IOM report 2010 The health challenges facing the nation has significantly changed in the21st century. In the present century nurses with more skills, expertise, and knowledge is required to keep up with changing health care. These changes helped the nurses to expand their knowledge and search various opportunities in all aspects of health care. There are some obstacles, which prevent nurses from responding effectively to a quickly shifting healthcare settings and developing health care system. In 2008, a two- year project to identify and resolve the problems facing the health profession developed by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM). This passage will explain the effect of IOM report on nursing education, practice, and nurse’s role as a leader. The IOM report -The Future of Nursing Leading Change, Advancing Health released in Oct 2010. The IOM selected the Com¬mittee on the RWJF to plan on the expectations of Nursing, with the rationale of developing a report and that would make suggestions for an advanced future of nursing. According to this report, there are so many challenge that facing the education in nursing and some resolutions that will be essential to progress the structure. In this present century, the patient’s requirements and health care settings became more multifaceted, the nurses needed to require competencies to convey expert nursing care. To meet this rising difficulty, the IOM committee...
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