2010 IOM Report On Nursing

The Impact on Nursing of the 2010 IOM report on the Future of Nursing

Nurses play a vital role working on the front lines of patient care; with almost 3 million members this profession takes up one of the largest segment in healthcare. In order to manage the rapidly changing healthcare rules and regulations that might prevent a nurse from working efficiently and rapidly; in 2008 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Institute of Medicine launched a two year plan to change the nursing profession.(The Future of Nursing, 2011) The committee put together certain key roles that were capable of envisioning the future of the nursing profession. The IOM report focused mainly on many critical components of nursing.
This brings one to the next key topic that IOM report covers and that is the impact of this report on nursing practice. The IOM committee is determined to remove any issues that a nurse might encounter which will prohibit his or her ability to provide quality care and service to society. A lot of educated BSN nurses entering the field of nursing do come across major issues between physicians of different states even when the knowledge that they have acquired is relatively the same across the program. This creates a challenging environment for their choice of practice; which in return threatens their role as a nurse. The IOM report helps in lifting the legal barriers that stops a nurse from performing their job. I would continue my education to acquire a leadership position so I along with other leaders in other sectors of the medical profession can collaborate and enhance or remove certain rules by persuading the federal government to put these changes into effect. The knowledge that nurses have must be taken into consideration to innovate the healthcare system and community, public and or primary
Today’s nurses still lack the potential in the area of leadership and this key element is an important factor in the healthcare system. When a nurse acquires leadership qualities along with knowledge and experience in nursing practice, this gives the nurse a perfect opportunity to connect with physicians and other healthcare professional and, work towards the evaluation of certain regulations in the healthcare system. Nurses with this potential would have the capability of conducting research and enhancing or improving the working environment around them and other nurses as well. “Nurses should have a voice in health policy decision making, as well as being engaged in the implementation efforts related to health care reforms”. (The Future of Nursing, 2011) The article does make a valid point of the fact that nurses should have the voice to make the right decisions that would help them perform their effectively and efficiently and working more effectively would indirect improve the outcome.
The impact that IOM report has on the future of nursing is quite a few and that being said one can educate him or herself and push forward to acquire a more effective leadership position which could evitable improve the future of nursing. The Healthcare is a complex program and that one person by himself or herself cannot make rapid changes and this