IOM Report
Nursing Leads the Advance into the Future
Nursing is an advancing field in the future of healthcare. The Affordable Care Act of 2010 outlines many new changes planned and needed for this Affordable Care Act to move forward and be successful. There is a need for the healthcare team to increase care to help move the transformation of healthcare in a positive direction. Areas of impact will be put forth by reviewing the IOM report on The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health.
One area of impact from the IOM is directed in nursing education. The Affordable Care Act is shifting care in the direction of patient centered care. The care is slowly moving away from acute care to preventive and community based care. An emphasis …show more content…
The improved care involves higher level of education for all nursing personnel. This care is based on primary care with a patient center focus. Since the early days of Florence Nightingale nursing has been based around an educated workforce of caregivers. Many changes and adaptations have been needed throughout the years. Adapting to the changes in our population, which is aging dramatically shows a need to improve on the care given by nurses. The IOM report projects the need of care provided by nursing must improve due to the increasing ages of our population. It is projected that there will be a 20 percent increase of the population of ages 65 and older in 2030. With these changes there is also a much more diverse group of people evolving. The diversity of the population brings many new issues to the table. As seen by looking back at the history of nursing it is evident that nursing not only has the ability to change but also the willingness to make the changes necessary to provide the highest level of …show more content…
If we can decrease the number of patients with chronic illness by creating changes in patient’s lifestyles then we can improve the level of care patients receive. Overall changes to healthcare can be achieved with the addition of improved education along with lifestyle changes. For example, a reduction in fast foods and soda’s which are closely linked to obesity would help to absolve the obesity issues in our communities. Already we have seen changes in the smoking population through our increased education in the link of smoking and lung cancer. Research by the American Diabetes Association links diet, physical activity, and weight with a direct association to multiple diseases not diabetes alone
Nursing is an advancing field in the future of healthcare. The Affordable Care Act of 2010 outlines many new changes planned and needed for this Affordable Care Act to move forward and be successful. There is a need for the healthcare team to increase care to help move the transformation of healthcare in a positive direction. Areas of impact will be put forth by reviewing the IOM report on The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health.
One area of impact from the IOM is directed in nursing education. The Affordable Care Act is shifting care in the direction of patient centered care. The care is slowly moving away from acute care to preventive and community based care. An emphasis …show more content…
The improved care involves higher level of education for all nursing personnel. This care is based on primary care with a patient center focus. Since the early days of Florence Nightingale nursing has been based around an educated workforce of caregivers. Many changes and adaptations have been needed throughout the years. Adapting to the changes in our population, which is aging dramatically shows a need to improve on the care given by nurses. The IOM report projects the need of care provided by nursing must improve due to the increasing ages of our population. It is projected that there will be a 20 percent increase of the population of ages 65 and older in 2030. With these changes there is also a much more diverse group of people evolving. The diversity of the population brings many new issues to the table. As seen by looking back at the history of nursing it is evident that nursing not only has the ability to change but also the willingness to make the changes necessary to provide the highest level of …show more content…
If we can decrease the number of patients with chronic illness by creating changes in patient’s lifestyles then we can improve the level of care patients receive. Overall changes to healthcare can be achieved with the addition of improved education along with lifestyle changes. For example, a reduction in fast foods and soda’s which are closely linked to obesity would help to absolve the obesity issues in our communities. Already we have seen changes in the smoking population through our increased education in the link of smoking and lung cancer. Research by the American Diabetes Association links diet, physical activity, and weight with a direct association to multiple diseases not diabetes alone