Institute of Medicine Role of Nurses

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A report from The Institute of Medicine (IOM) calls on nurses to take a greater role in America’s increasingly complex health care system. The American Nurses Association (ANA) highly commends the IOM for its newly released report on the nursing profession and acknowledges the need for nurses to take a leadership role in all settings to meet the demands of our changing health care system. The report is the result of the Initiative on the Future of Nursing, sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF).

ANA was gratified to find that many of the elements and recommendations of the IOM Report on the Future of Nursing are reflected even in ongoing work to advance the nursing profession. The Nursing communities are in complete agreement with the four "key messages" of the report viz. Transforming Practice, Achieve and Practice to the full extent of their education and training, Transforming education and leadership, In association with all the heath care professionals take leadership in redesigning health care in United State etc. It is reported that ANA and the ANA constituent state nurses associations have engaged in a wide range of activities over time that supports the evidence-based recommendations of the IOM
Nurses currently form the largest sector of health care providers, with more than three million currently registered; but few have led or even been involved in the formal policy discussions regarding the future care of patients. To address this discrepancy, the Institute of Medicine and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation assembled a national panel of health care experts to discuss the role of nurses in transforming the current health care system. Their final report was published with no less ambitious a title than “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health.”
But the report was just as forceful in urging nurses to revamp the way
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