Professional Development of Nursing Professionals
After the recognition of the challenges that the nursing profession was facing towards the fulfillment of the promise of a transformed health care system and meeting the state’s health needs, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation move towards suggesting for partnership with the institute of medicine. The main objective of this partnering was to change the nursing profession. The committee that was formed from this partnership was responsible for the production of a report that was to be used to recommend for actions that were to be implemented in nursing profession to ensure that the changes are made so as to impact the future nursing career (Committee on the Robert 2010). This paper therefore will focus its argument on the various impacts that the IOM has on the nursing education, their practice especially in primary caregiving, changes to be implemented in their practice and their role as leaders.
There are various impacts that would result from the IOM report on nursing. As these recommendations that are in the IOM report are implemented so many effects are likely to occur as there are changes that would occur hence changing the education system of these nurses. Increase in competence is one of the effects of the IOM report since the report recommends and advocates for high quality education for nurses when being educated (Committee on the Robert 2010). According to IOM report, the education system for nurses should also integrate the teaching of emerging health issues and as a result of this the nurses are well competent with skills that would help to address any emerging health issue.
Another impact is on the methodology in which the education is transmitted onto the nursing students by the nursing teachers. The report advocates for an integrative approach method of teaching where the students are taught using the best teaching methods.
This has contributed towards improvement in inter-professional quality where they are able to even improve on their projects.
Another impact from the IOM report is on the increment of government support through funding that has greatly attributed to education development for nurses. This report has widely shown on the need for government support through offering of scholarships to nurses, loans which will enhance a large number of students to get knowledge and they will be able to graduate. This support has also attributed towards the upgrading of knowledge where the nurses in the hospitals are able to advance their knowledge hence making them more competent. Their support has also helped in the development of knowledge through research centers where the nurses are able to carry out researches hence they are able to acquire more knowledge (Committee on the Robert 2010).
Nursing practices are viewed to cover a wide range of health promotions, disease prevention and primary care. According to the report, the improvement in the nursing practices as per the report will ensure that nurses gives out quality care to patients as they expand and fulfill their potential as primary care providers across their nursing practice settings basing on the high level of education and competence they get from the education that they have attained.
As a result of this the report the nurses will be able to develop new competences that would be developed in the future so as to bridge the gap between the coverage and access so as to organize increasingly complex care so as to cover a large number of patients so as to fulfill their potential (Committee on the Robert 2010).
This would help them in experiencing a full extent of the education and nursing training that they have attained and they would be able to implement changes that would enhance growth of body of evidence that support the linking of nursing practices to fundamental advancements in safety and quality care provision. This will also impact their full economic value of their contributions across their nursing practice. Nursing requires great commitment and so as to meet the goals of IOM, I believe that in expanding nursing practices will enhance more efficiency and competence (Cronenwett et al 2006). Assuming of more and more leadership roles in the daily practices will enhance me as a nurse me to be a better leader who can decide what best for the people and the health care. Integration of technology and more research will help in increasing my knowledge base as a nurse and this will enable me to be limitless when giving safety and quality healthcare (Stevens 2013).
According to the report of IOM on the leadership of nurses it is clear that nurses are leaders. As nurses develop in their careers they develop leadership skills that enhance them to be leaders hence they are able to become full partners where they are in charge of leading the health care into achieving a better health care system (Committee on the Robert 2010). Some of the experiences that they get in their direct interaction while giving primary care, their communications with relatives on health status as well as administering of medications as prescribed and their desired results make them fit to be leaders in health care facilities. Thus when leaders are given the chance to lead they ate able to redesign the health centers so that quality services are given to patients.
References
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Stevens, K. (2013). The impact of evidence-based practice in nursing and the next big ideas. The Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, 18(2).
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