Implementation of the IOM Future of Nursing

Implementation of the IOM Future of Nursing Report
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Implementation of the IOM Future of Nursing Report
America has to remodel its healthcare system so as to effectively provide reliable, affordable, quality, as well as accessible healthcare services to all persons. This is exclusively important in the nursing profession, the largest sector of healthcare labor force. Nurses are responsible for providing quality healthcare services to patients. According to The Institute of Medicine (2010), the 2010 IOM report assesses how responsibilities, education, and roles of nurses ought to change towards solving challenges within healthcare framework. The recommendations in the IOM report are significant since they assist nurses to provide good care services. After the release of the IOM report, the RWJF collaborated with AARP and they formed a Campaign for Action aimed towards shepherding the report recommendations. In the year 2014, the RWJF pleaded the IOM towards setting a committee which will assess the success achieved on implementing the IOM propositions and recognize sectors that need to be looked at within the following 5 years (The Institute of Medicine, 2010). Accordingly, this paper focuses on the impact of IOM report on nurses as well as its impact upon State-Based Action Coalitions in New York.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Committee Report
In 2008, RWJF decided to approach the IOM to propose collaboration towards evaluating and responding to nurses’ issues with an end goal of remodeling nursing profession (RWJF, 2014). IOM in collaboration with RWJF designed a 2-year approach which will address the different problems that beleaguered the nursing practice (RWJF, 2014). They formed a commission which will be in charge of coming up with recommendations.
The commission was liable for investigating the aptitude of nursing workforce towards fulfilling the anticipations of a changed healthcare framework. The committee formulated recommendations which would address different healthcare changes such as innovative techniques to address the issue of understaffing in the United States (RWJF, 2014). Some of the recommendations presented on behalf of nurses were that nurses ought to deliver care services to their full potential, nurses should acquire continuous education through an improved healthcare system that supports continuous scholastic growth, and nurses should work in harmony with other medical practitioner to improve healthcare framework in the United States. Another recommendation is that effective workforce growth and policy formulation necessitates improved information gathering.
The Importance of IOM Future of Nursing Report
Nursing Practice
The report’s recommendation on nursing practice is that nurses ought to lead as well as endeavor towards enhancing joint efforts to enhance the delivery of healthcare. Nurses need to participate in the implementation of new healthcare reforms. Moreover, they should carry out research to use evidence-based solutions to healthcare problems during their nursing practice. For health policies to be successful there has to be reliability among nurses, particularly within the healthcare team. These reco...