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 recommended that nurses should accomplish top levels of education and recommended that they should cultured in specific ways to practice them to meet the requirements of the patients. The committee suggested that the nursing curriculum to be examined again, restructured, and proficiently transformed with respect to the patient needs. Competencies must progress from task-based proficiencies to high-level competencies that give a base for care administration, comprehension and decision making skills in various clinical care
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