4. Effective workforce planning and policy making require better data collection and information infrastructure. Impact of IOM Report on Nursing Education The report recommends that nurses should attain higher education levels to meet the needs of today’s changing healthcare system; therefore nurses should achieve the necessary competencies to ensure the delivery of safe patient-centered care. The nursing education must be improved to accommodate these competencies which include leadership, system improvement, collaboration, emphasis practice based on evidence, research, community and public health, geriatrics, computer skills and information management. These are essential to emulate the technological advancement in healthcare today as opposed to the current fragmented system that is both antiquated and ineffective.
INTRODUCTION to the Nurse Manager Inventory Tool The critical influence of nurse managers in shaping healthy work environments is undeniable. Of every leadership role in health care today, a nurse manager has the most direct impact on the care and services that patients and families require throughout their health care experience. Theirs is a far-reaching role with particular impact on achieving a professional culture that successfully recruits and retains expert nurses. In today’s dynamic and complex health care environments, safe and effective care will only be assured when health care leaders can make their optimal contribution to the effort. Nurse managers must not only fulfill their daily responsibilities, they must lead the change demanded that will secure a bright future for American health care.
The recommendations that were suggested by the report would improve the nurses’ workforce and improve patient outcomes. One of the recommendations in the report was the need that nurses should continue their training and education, and practice to their full extent and that many of the scope of practice barriers be removed, in
The Institute of Medicine: The Future of Nursing Report discusses so many positive key messages to improve nursing care; but three seem to have the greatest impact in my mind, in regards to the future of nursing, the transformation of the: nursing practice, nursing education and nurse’s role. Nursing Practice According to the IOM’s report, nurses should practice to the full extent of their education and training; however due to state regulations and licensing, scope-of-practice is faced with many limitations. Gennaro (2012) states, “A number of different initiatives are underway to en-sure that nurses are able to practice to their full ability... The goal of these endeavors is to ensure that advanced practice nurses are able to practice to the full scope of their education.” I constantly ask myself, is the juice worth the squeeze? Meaning is the end result worth the hardship I’m about to
Comparison of Chlorhexidine Gluconate and Povidone Iodine in central line catheter care Introduction: Evidence based practice: Globally, nursing is one of the most honorable professions among healthcare providers. Nursing is caring, which focuses on patients’ comfort and nurses act as advocators. An advocate means a person who defends or argues for the rights of others (Oman Nursing and Midwifery Council (ONMC) 2011). For example, a nurse might face a situation which needs his/her advocacy skills to fight for the patients’ right. Therefore, nurses should be up to date with knowledge, skills and attitude by introducing significant evidence into their practice (ONMC 2011).
I believe my calling is to the role of Advanced Nurse Practitioner. In this new role, I will be able to take on more responsibility, autonomy, and can potentially make a greater impact on patients’ lives. I believe it is our obligation as nurses to stay up to date on our ever evolving practice. As nursing leaders, we should take the initiative to be involved in councils, read nursing journals, and further our education as much as the glass ceiling will allow. A thirst for knowledge is wonderful value to have.
The healthcare system in America today is poised for major, sweeping changes related to the enactment and implementation of the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA) (IOM, 2010). As put forth in a report by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) titled, The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health, nurses, who comprise the largest portion of our country’s healthcare workforce, have the opportunity to play a fundamental and influential role in this transformation while expanding and optimizing their own contributions to healthcare. The report focuses on several key points that would enable nurses to step up to the challenges ahead, specifically by achieving higher levels of education while creating an improved system for advancing skills and knowledge, practicing to the maximum extent of their education and training with expanded roles in primary care, and increasing leadership roles by partnering with physicians, other healthcare professionals, and policy makers who will shape the new landscape of healthcare (IOM, 2010). Today’s nurse has to prepare to take on expanding roles by stepping up and meeting the educational requirements necessary to address the nation’s healthcare needs. Care of patients in acute and local community settings has become quite complex, requiring advanced skills and knowledge, while higher levels of nursing competency and specialization in a variety of fields has become necessary for modern practice (IOM, 2010).
Nursing knowledge expands to create a meaningful, holistic approach to providing health care needs and meeting the challenges of the social aspects of patient care. A profession must have advanced knowledge and seek improvement. Nursing has been a changing force in health care. It combines research, evidence base models and is moving toward reaching the goal of a profession. It uses a code of ethics, altruistic services, registration, a governing body
"The American Nurses Association (ANA) defines nursing as the protection, promotion, and optimization of health abilities; prevention of illness and injury; alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response; and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, and populations (ANA, 2010b)." The roles of nurses not only advanced but became the backbone of hospitals and other agencies of primary care. The purpose of this essay is to examine the roles and relationship among nurses and the measures taken to ensure nurses are held accountable for standards of practice and professionalism and how challenging those standards using positive deviance may benefit patient care. In history nurses were not regarded as essential components in the healthcare industry, although there were many nurses that contributed to the advancement of standards and quality of care patients received. "In the early twentieth century a movement toward developing a scientific, research-based defined body of nursing knowledge and practice was
Primary care is an essential care that concentrates on improving people’s health by education, affordable care, accessibility, early detection, and prevention of diseases. According to Shi, “One of the goals of primary care is to bring health care as close as possible to where people live and work” ( 2010, p.169). Primary care professionals play immense role in patients’ care, because they “serve as patient advisors and advocates” (Shi, 2010, p.169). Nurses as one of the primary care professionals play major role in patients care. Nursing assessment skills are essential in prevention, early diagnosis and treatment.