Registered Nurse
Developments in Professional Nursing
Grace Varghese
Grand Canyon University
NRS-430 Professional Dynamics
June 16th, 2013
In the health care system nurses are taking the important role. Bed side nurses, school health nurse, nurses in different leadership positions etc. We can see many obstacles in the fast changing health care systems. To prevent these obstacles, institution such as IOM (Institute of Medicine) and RWJF (Robert wood Johnson Foundation), introduced a two year plan to make some changes to remodel and repair the nursing profession. The nurses have to provide a high quality nursing care to the patients and in order to achieve this, they have to attain high education, training and attend health care conferences and mandatory classes along with healthcare team including the physicians. This participation will bring a great change in reformation of the health care system in the future. This is also known as required effective work force (IOM Future of Nursing Report). The future of nursing is going to face many challenges. In order to overcome these challenges, the health care system has found some new solutions. Those solutions are: to advance the nursing profession to higher level degrees to perform safe and quality nursing care teaching, leadership, evidence based practice, and expand nursing schools
Why we are in need of higher education in the future? Because the competencies are very essential to spread the nursing profession and nurses are in a great pressure to achieve these goals. The IOM’s goal for the future is for most associate nurses to increase the proportions of BSN degree to 80% and double the number of doctorates in nursing in the coming future (The Future of Nursing). Only nursing profession has a wide advancement to contribute higher education program. For example, LPN (Licensed practical nurses) has to earn an Associate degree in nursing or Diploma in nursing, BSN has to earn Masters in nursing or DNP (Doctor in
Grace Varghese
Grand Canyon University
NRS-430 Professional Dynamics
June 16th, 2013
In the health care system nurses are taking the important role. Bed side nurses, school health nurse, nurses in different leadership positions etc. We can see many obstacles in the fast changing health care systems. To prevent these obstacles, institution such as IOM (Institute of Medicine) and RWJF (Robert wood Johnson Foundation), introduced a two year plan to make some changes to remodel and repair the nursing profession. The nurses have to provide a high quality nursing care to the patients and in order to achieve this, they have to attain high education, training and attend health care conferences and mandatory classes along with healthcare team including the physicians. This participation will bring a great change in reformation of the health care system in the future. This is also known as required effective work force (IOM Future of Nursing Report). The future of nursing is going to face many challenges. In order to overcome these challenges, the health care system has found some new solutions. Those solutions are: to advance the nursing profession to higher level degrees to perform safe and quality nursing care teaching, leadership, evidence based practice, and expand nursing schools
Why we are in need of higher education in the future? Because the competencies are very essential to spread the nursing profession and nurses are in a great pressure to achieve these goals. The IOM’s goal for the future is for most associate nurses to increase the proportions of BSN degree to 80% and double the number of doctorates in nursing in the coming future (The Future of Nursing). Only nursing profession has a wide advancement to contribute higher education program. For example, LPN (Licensed practical nurses) has to earn an Associate degree in nursing or Diploma in nursing, BSN has to earn Masters in nursing or DNP (Doctor in
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