IOM Future of Nursing Report; Leading Change, Advanced Health

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In 2008, Institute of Medicine along with Robert Wood Johnson Foundation started 2 years initiative in order to provide response to nursing need, assess, evaluate and transmute the profession. According to Kershaw (2011), the Institute of Medicine made available to the public a report in the year 2010 based on the Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health, and this report was documented as the result of a 2-year initiative by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the IOM to address the need, and to transmute the profession of nursing. In 2015, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation requested the Institute of Medicine to assemble a committee in order to examine changes in the nursing field and progress towards implementing recommendations of the Future of Nursing Report. The committee noted that although significant improvements had been achieved in particular areas which require more focused attention. However, some recommendations in targeted areas of healthcare delivery and scope of practice, education, collaboration, leadership, diversity in the nursing profession and workforce data are outlined (Kershaw, 2011).

One of the four important messages published through the institute of medicine stipulate that nurses ought to practice to the full extent of their education and training. Additionally, nurses must get higher levels of education and training via an improved education system which promotes total academic progression, thirdly, nurses are to completely partner with physicians based on remodeling health care in the United States, and finally, efficient workforce planning and policy making require better data collection and an improved information infrastructure. However, these important messages through IOM report influence nursing practices in some ways and these are; Nurses are practicing to the full extent of their education and training, they are getting higher levels of education and training through an improved education system that promotes absolute academic progression (Eastman, 2016).