The Future of Nursing the impact of the 2010 IOM report
The Future of Nursing: The Impact of the 2010 Institute of Medicine Report
Toni Brown
Grand Canyon University
Professional Dynamics
May 18, 2014
The Future of Nursing: The Impact of the 2010 Institute of Medicine Report
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is the biggest change and evolution to occur to healthcare in the United States since the foundation of Medicare and Medicaid services in 1965
The ACA calls for a transformation of healthcare to provide a safer, more affordable, more accessible and higher quality of medical care. In 2008 the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) called to partner with the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and in a two-year study attempted to redesign the future of nursing. The purpose was to create a blueprint on how to recreate the nursing profession in order to accommodate, participate, and lead the current necessary healthcare reform. As a result of this study several conclusions were made. Nurses should be allowed to practice to the full extent of their education. Nurses should improve and increase their education. Nurses should be allowed to assume leadership positions and be full partners in healthcare redesign. Date collection and information infrastructure needs to be improved upon. (IOM, 2010)
Transforming Education
Nurses play an integral part in healthcare and as the largest segment of the healthcare force, they contribute in all sectors from the trenches, to the acute care setting, to the community and schools, and in the post-acute care setting. As nurses take on bigger roles, it is imperative to increase their education. One such proposed milestone is to have 80% of the nurses hold a baccalaureate degree by 2020. The general goal is for the Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) to become an Associate Degree Nurse (ADN), and the ADN to become a Bachelor of Science Nurse (BSN), the BSN to pursue their Masters degree, and so forth. Another milestone called for the doubling of the number of Doctorate in Nursing
Toni Brown
Grand Canyon University
Professional Dynamics
May 18, 2014
The Future of Nursing: The Impact of the 2010 Institute of Medicine Report
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is the biggest change and evolution to occur to healthcare in the United States since the foundation of Medicare and Medicaid services in 1965
The ACA calls for a transformation of healthcare to provide a safer, more affordable, more accessible and higher quality of medical care. In 2008 the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) called to partner with the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and in a two-year study attempted to redesign the future of nursing. The purpose was to create a blueprint on how to recreate the nursing profession in order to accommodate, participate, and lead the current necessary healthcare reform. As a result of this study several conclusions were made. Nurses should be allowed to practice to the full extent of their education. Nurses should improve and increase their education. Nurses should be allowed to assume leadership positions and be full partners in healthcare redesign. Date collection and information infrastructure needs to be improved upon. (IOM, 2010)
Transforming Education
Nurses play an integral part in healthcare and as the largest segment of the healthcare force, they contribute in all sectors from the trenches, to the acute care setting, to the community and schools, and in the post-acute care setting. As nurses take on bigger roles, it is imperative to increase their education. One such proposed milestone is to have 80% of the nurses hold a baccalaureate degree by 2020. The general goal is for the Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) to become an Associate Degree Nurse (ADN), and the ADN to become a Bachelor of Science Nurse (BSN), the BSN to pursue their Masters degree, and so forth. Another milestone called for the doubling of the number of Doctorate in Nursing