Summarization of feedback shared by colleagues
Nurses have a central role on transforming healthcare system, which focuses on patient-centered care and deliver primary care in community setting rather than acute care setting. Nurses must have scientific knowledge and skills to provide higher quality care, minimize medical errors and promote the patient safety. Nurses have a crucial role in minimizing the rate of infection, facilitating the transition of a patient from hospital to home, prevention of diseases and promotion of health status (The national academic press, 2011). This paper summarizes the feedback shared by three nurse colleagues regarding how the practice of nursing is expected to grow and change due to the restricting of the U. S health care delivery system.
Summarization of feedback Nurses are the backbone of health care system who provide patient-centered care, holistic care, family and community-based care, patient education, preventive and wellness care and others. Since the healthcare reform of united states focuses on primary, preventive, patient-centered and community-based care, practice of nursing is expected to be more advanced, scientific and evidenced-based, which promotes the quality of care, increase patient satisfaction and maintain efficiency and effectiveness of care (American Nurses Association [ANA], 2010). According to the first nurse colleague, more nursing jobs will be available in hospitals because people are aware of healthcare system
Registered nurses are an integral part of the healthcare system, and make up the largest number of healthcare professionals. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (2015) “The employment rate for registered nurses is expected to grow by 16% between 2014 and 2024”. This is more than double the average rate of growth for a profession. The rapid growth rate can be attributed in part to better management of chronic diseases and the baby boomer generation. The growth in the nursing profession is paramount, however the demographics of the nursing population does not mirror the demographics of the population served.
The Institute of Medicine’s 2010 report on The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health acknowledges the changing healthcare sector in the US and describes future vision of healthcare and the role of nurses to fulfill that vision. The United States always strives to provide affordable and quality healthcare to the entire population of the country. In order to achieve this goal an overall restructuring of the healthcare system was necessitated. Nurses are considered to be the central part of the healthcare system to provide high quality and safe patient care. Nursing in the US is the single largest segment of the healthcare workforce with almost 3 million nurses working in different areas across the county. The changing
Nurses play and important role in the health care system. Nurses have excellent inherent to manage change to improve the health care system (The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health. n.d.). They can be as innovators to lead changes. Nurses understand how to approach care and enhance quality at the lower cost (Nursing 's role in health care reform - American Nurse Today. n.d.). They can engage in research to Generate evidence-based practice and help shape the quality and safety through collecting and tracking data to enhance care. Nursing research benefits create the logical framework for clinical usage, prevention, and improved patient outcomes. Nurses can Redesign nursing education (Nursing 's role in health care reform - American Nurse Today. n.d.). All nurses should to maintain necessary competencies to match the requirements of the population aging and various culture and community health care needs, (Nursing 's role in health care reform - American Nurse Today. n.d.).
Over the past few decades, many drastic changes occurred in U.S health care delivery. Our current healthcare trends demand nurses to take more active role in the health care decisions in hospital setting, long term care setting and in community healthcare setting. Since “nursing is based upon a body of knowledge that is always changing with new discoveries and innovation” Potter and Perry (2005), nursing profession is compelled to grow from being just a traditional bedside nurse. IOM’s future of nursing report which is released in 2010 calls nurses to be “more highly educated, diverse nursing workforce”.
IOM (Institute of Medicine), in partnership with RWJF (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation), developed the report “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing health on October 5, 2010.This detailed study focus on the significant connection between the health needs of various, varying populations and the actions of the nursing staff. The health care delivery system and nursing profession consider this report as a framework for transformation. The changes in health care system and nursing workforce are directed to health care researchers, payers, national, state and local government leaders, professionals
Change is always vital to progress and the field of nursing is constantly in change. The world that we live in today is creating a higher need for more nurses, changing the way that nurses are educated and creating new approaches to utilize nurses out in the field. On October 5th, 2010, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released the report “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health.” The report elaborates on the need for the nursing profession to prepare for the changes that are occurring due to the health care reform and the current
The United States Health care system is in the mist of converting to a preventative, health management focus system from a treatment focused system. There has been plenty of benefits and trials during the transformative period, like as with any other changes. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) requested that a report be done that would bring clarity to and direct the nursing profession on their parts and conversions that nursing is going to face. In this essay the IOM report that was completed by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) on the future of nursing will be explored. There will be discussion of
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) noted that nursing is the largest profession in healthcare in the United States, with more than three million members (2010). Thee IOM also noted that there are many barriers that prevent nurses from adapting to the ever-changing healthcare setting and system, and that these berries need to be addressed in order for nurses to advance health and lead in the change that is happening within the healthcare system (IOM, 2010). The four barriers the IOM focused on were: nurses should practice to the full extent of their education and training; nurses should achieve higher levels of education and training through an improved education system that promotes seamless academic progression; nurses should be full partners, with physicians and other health care professionals, in redesigning health care in the United States; and effective workforce planning and policy making require better data collection and an improved information
With over three million nurses in the United States nurses play an important role in healthcare today. As the future of health care changes the nurses’ role will change as well. In 2008, The Institute of Medicine (IOM) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) combined partnership and put together a committee to assess nursing practices and make recommendations for the future transformations in the health care system. This report was released in 2010 and included four key components in which three will be discussed in this paper.
Health care in the United States (US) is constantly evolving however, when the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) was signed into US legislation the need for evolution increased at an exponential rate (Institute of Medicine [IOM], 2010a). The PPACA’s primary goals were to provide safe, quality, and affordable health care to every US citizen as well as to minimize the number Americans without insurance (Cherry & Jacob, 2016). According to the IOM (2010a) nurses played a fundamental role in developing the goals of the PPACA and are an essential component in meeting the requirements of the new act. Despite making up the largest sector of the health care workforce, the nursing profession faces multiple hurdles trying to effectively respond to the rapid metamorphosis of health care (IOM, 2010a). The recommendations proposed by the IOM to overcome these hurdles were released in their report on The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health (IOM, 2010b)
Nurses should be full partners, with physicians and other health professionals, in regarding health care in the United States(Institute of Medicine, 2011).Nurses should be full partners because who knows nursing and what nurses need better than a nurses themselves? In care environments, being a full partner involves taking responsibility for identifying problems and areas of waste, devising and implementing a plan for improvement, tracking improvement over time, and making necessary adjustments to realize established goals (Institute of Medicine, 2011).The expense of certain supplies and equipment could be decreased over time if nurses had more say in their environment and resources. On many floors in hospitals, certain supplies are not needed
This paper seeks to expand upon the 2010 Institute of Medicine’s report on the future of nursing, leading change, advancing health and illustrating its impact on nursing education, practice and leadership. There is an ongoing transformation in the healthcare system necessitated by the need to achieve a patient centered care in the community, public, and primary care settings in contrast to previous times. Nurses occupying vital roles in the healthcare system, need improvements in the areas mentioned above to
In November of 2010, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health”. This special report examined the current state of nursing and changing landscape of the American healthcare system and offered recommendations for the future role nurses should play. The committee that released the report, Committee on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, divided it into three parts. Part II of the study, focused on transforming the nursing profession in order to improve America’s healthcare system. In order to achieve this transformation, the committee recommended that nurses attain higher levels of education and training, practice to the full extent of that education and training, and assume more
Changes in the Health Care System and the Practice of Nursing have become complex. Technological changes, complicated client needs, short hospital length of stay, and departure from acute care to community based care, all these changes have underscore the need for professional nurses to think critically in order to provide safe and effective client care. A better educated nursing workforce can provide good health education to patients and their families. The affordable care of 2010 has required the need for nurses to expand their role of practice to meet complicated patient demands. This has prompted the Institute Of Medicine to review the “Future of Nursing, Leading change and Advancing Health”. {Creasia & Fribery,2011}
Nurse’s roles are expanding according to the need of the patient and society. A nurse has to play roles from bed side nursing to the prevention of disease and illness, educating patient, families and collaboration with different healthcare teams. Howell (2012) indicated