¶ … IOM Future Nursing Report
a) Discuss the work of the Committee of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative on the Future of Nursing, at the Institute of Medicine, that led to the IOM report, "Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health."
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) in partnership with the Institute of Medicine (IOM) are responsible for the "Initiative on the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action" report. The report by the Institute of Medicine, "Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health," examines the entire nursing workforce. In the report, recommendations on crucial intersection between diversity in health needs of the changing population of patients and the nursing workforce actions are discussed. The recommendations are designed to bring about improvements in the healthcare sector (Ivanov & Blue, 2007). This would further produce an improvement in the health of populations in the U.S. through the improved competence of nurses. The report contained eight recommendations focusing on four key issues. The first issue covered in the report is the fact that the performance of nurses ought to be a full exploitation of their training and education. Secondly, seamless academic provision should be given to nurses through higher educational trainings for progression of their service delivery. In the third aspect of the report, partnership in nursing is encouraged. These advices nurses, physicians and all other health practitioners to work in collaboration with each other for the redesigning of healthcare provision in the U.S. The fourth and last part of the report focuses on the effectiveness of planning of the workforce. It highlights the need for effectiveness of information infrastructure and data collection for the formulation of policies (Ivanov & Blue, 2007).
b) Identify the importance of the IOM "Future of Nursing" report related to the nursing workforce.
The importance of the "Initiative on the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action" report are numerous and relevant to the future of the healthcare system. There is a crucial need for interdisciplinary partnerships for the provision of competent care within the complex health sector. Investing and implementation of the recommendations by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Future of Nursing...
As plans and reformations in the healthcare systems grow, improved education of nurses who can practice freely in accordance to their academic achievements is necessary. This is instrumental for the development and implementation of policies for gap closure in the healthcare provision systems. The practice freedom will enable nurses to take up the increased interdisciplinary possibilities and opportunities, which the IOM report proposes (Polifko, 2010).
The report also promotes the use of evidence-based bedside nursing practice, which has a consistency to the current research recommendations. Evidence-based research demands for information related to breakthroughs of scientific researches of learning literature. Technology provides the bedside nurse with current relevant information quickly. Partnerships and collaboration will also improve the nursing practice maintaining current practices. Collaboration will link together the many facets of healthcare. Different entities will be bridged together for education, research, and practice to intertwine like a medical supply chain. Such a collaborative interaction is important for the nurses, as they would become engaged interactively with current research and researchers. The integration of research into practice will help nurses to provide better healthcare services to patients (Lane & Kohlenberg, 2010).
c) Discuss the intent of the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action.
In the healthcare unit, there is an increasing need for primary care professionals, since their number keeps declining. There are complexities in the practice of bedside care with the disintegration among the healthcare units. For this reason, the recommendation in the report for incorporating interdisciplinary collaboration, the beds side nurses receive the opportunity of working wholesomely with the physicians (Polifko, 2010). Since bedside caregivers have constant direct contact with patients, they understand the patients' emotional, psychological and economic disparities. These may be both personal and communal aspects, which affect the diagnostic provision for patients. The recommendations in the report will help healthcare providers to extend beyond…
