Future of Nursing

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Title: The 2010 IOM Report’s Impact on the Future of Nursing Lu-Anna Godett
Grand Canyon University: NUR-430V
May17th, 2015

Introduction
The writer will study The Institute of Medicine (IOM) report titled: "The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health," with a focus on the transforming practice transforming education, and the transforming leaderships. The author focuses on how the Institute of Medicine’s report and it’s impact on nursing education and the practice of nursing particularly on the field of primary care nursing, and what changes can be made to your practice to facilitate the goals set by the IOM report. The writer will also looks at the impact of the report on the nurse’s leadership role.
Nursing Education in the IOM Report
Discussed in the Institute of Medicine (2010), which states that, nurses should practice to the highest extent of their educational level and abilities, and should also achieve highest levels of education and training available, by improving their knowledge through education and improve their academic progress. Nurses can also build partnerships with doctors and collaborate with health care workers, to help improve the health care system in the United States. The IOM sees the nurse as a great leader, but they are not being used to their full potential due to challenges like policy regulation, high turnover of nurses, the aging workforce and the difficulty to find a job coming out of school. The ANA in a press release, agreed with the IOM report and acknowledged the need for nurses to step up and meet the challenges of the changing and advancements in the health care system, (McNamara, 2010).
IOM Recommendations The Institute of Medicine report recommended that leaders in nursing should work together to help improve the number of nurses with a BSN degrees from 50 percent to 80 percent by the year 2020.

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