Review the Institute of Medicine's 2010 report "The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health. discussing the influence of the IOM report on nursing practice. Include the following:

1. Summarize the four messages outlined in the IOM report and explain why these are significant to nursing practice.
2. Discuss the direct influence the IOM report has on nursing education and nursing leadership. Describe the benefits and opportunities for BSN?prepared nurses.
3. Explain why it is important that a nurse's role and education evolve to meet the needs of an aging and increasingly diverse population.
4. Discuss the significance of professional development, or lifelong learning, and its relevance in caring for diverse populations across the life span and within the health?illness continuum.
5. Discuss how nurses can assist in effectively managing patient care within an evolving health care system.

 

1.The following are the four messages outlined in the IOM report and its significance ;

• Nurses should practice to the full extent of their education and more so their training.
• Effective workforce planning and more so policy making require better data collection as well as an improved information infrastructure
• The other message is that nurses should be full partners, as with physicians as well as other health professionals, in redesigning health care in the US
• Nurses should achieve higher levels of education as well as training through an improved education system that promotes seamless academic progression

Significance of the messages

Basing on this message -Nurses should practice to the full extent of their education more so their training, helps in ensuring that all Americans have access to needed health care services as well as nurses' unique contributions to the health care team are maximized, federal and state actions are required to update more so standardize scope-of-practice regulations to take advantage of the full capacity as well as education of APRNs

Under effective workforce planning and more so policy making require better data collection and thus an improved information infrastructure-as planning for the fundamental changes required to achieve a reformed health care system which cannot be accomplished without a clear understanding of the necessary contributions of such various professionals and more so the numbers and composition of the health care workforce

With the message-nurses should be full partners, with physicians more so other health professionals, in redesigning health care in the US-as transformed system will need nurses with the adaptive capacity to take on reconceptualized roles in new settings, educating more so re-educating themselves along with indispensable characteristics of effective leadership

Under the message-nurses should achieve higher levels of education more so training through an improved education system that promotes seamless academic progression-indicates that improved education system is very crucial to ensuring that the current and more so future generations of nurses delivers safe, quality, patient-centered care across all settings, especially in areas like for instance in primary care as well as community and public health

2.With the IOM report, it has greater influence on nursing education as well as nursing leadership as nurses, the largest group of health care professionals, are equipped with new tools to meet the changing needs of patients, communities, and more so health care delivery system of the nation. Thus has led to expansion as to include members from other disciplines, as well as evolving into a hospital-wide initiative ,thus exemplifying the significance of nursing leadership. However, it also emphasizes development of leadership programs that harness nurses' capacity to lead change, and more so advance health and health care through creating innovative opportunities for education as well as professional growth

Some of the benefits and opportunities for BSN?prepared nurses are like for instance , it prepares nurses for a broader scope of practice as well as helps them to developing the skills needed to help save more lives as well as to being better prepared to serve patients, however, nurses with a BSN or higher degree benefit from the potential for better jobs with better pay. Therefore, several employers will favor a nurse with a BSN over those with only an associate's degree and more so will often pay a higher salary to those with advanced degrees

3. It is very necessary that a nurse's role as well as education should evolve to meet the needs of an aging and increasingly diverse population as like for example with increased rise in population in USA , nurses needs to be well educated about different population as of which will help in better patient care, thus nurses with better knowledge and experience about diverse population will help in better understanding of their genetics and heredity, customs and beliefs, as well as lifestyle and beliefs. However, with the growing population of ageing people might be the reason for educating the nurses about elderly needs,and thus nursing staff with experience and knowledge to deal with several mental and physical health related issues in ageing population and their needs will help to yield better results and more so satisfied patients. Such will help in early patient recovery, shorter hospital stay as well as positive results

4.The significance of professional development, or either lifelong learning, and its relevance in caring for diverse populations across the life span and within the health?illness continuum are like for instance ; lifelong learning or either professional development has been recognized as the most significant competencies that people should posses through academic organizations. hence , the lifelong learning helps in providing benefit and more so welfare for everyone in the society, as in caring for diverse populations across the life span and within the health?illness continuum, might have greater significance which offers individuals the opportunities in keeping their knowledge current, learning new skills and more so pursuing a wide variety of interest through intellectual growth as well as expansion. Therefore , through the lifelong learning process, individuals can provide an expanded contribution to society as well as being able to extend their options for career choice and more so life enrichment. Thus , lifelong learning is not an option in a healthcare, but its required by health workers to remain relevant as well as continue providing safe effective patient care

5.Nurses can assist in effectively managing patient care within an evolving health care system as for instance through playing new roles in coordinating care from multiple providers, helping patients transition out of hospitals and into the home or either other settings and more so managing caseloads of patients with intense care needs. Then, they are working as health coaches as well as in other ways to prevent illness and more so promotion of wellness. Of which they are charting new paths in merging fields like for instance in informatics, telehealth, genetics genomics as well as scientist and leaders in the society. At which they probably expand their roles as the health care system evolves in order to be able to meet new needs