Future of Nursing IOM Report

Running head: IOM REPORT ON NURSING 1
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IOM REPORT ON NURSING 2
Introduction
The United States of America has the absolute opportunity of transforming the health
care system in providing affordable, quality, and seamless care that can be accessed to all
citizens, evidence-based, patient-centered, as well as focusing on improving the health outcomes.
For this transformation to be achieved, it requires and takes account of remodeling the various
aspects within the health care system. Some of these factors are nurses-practice based blueprints
such as ensuring that nurses are able to practice the extent of their training and educational skills
to their fullest, providing opportunities for the nurses to step on leadership positions as well as
serving as full partners within the healthcare improvement efforts and ideology contributors and
lastly, improving data collection for work-force development, including policy-making and
implementation. Thus, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) is focused on the future of nursing and
responding to the need to transform the nursing profession despite several challenges in fulfilling
the reformed healthcare sector as well as striving to meet the health needs at local, state, and
national levels.
IOM report and Nursing
The IOM report basically entails the changes encountering health care as a result of
demographics, technology and other factors in nursing. The IOM report strongly suggests
recommendations for improving the future of the healthcare sector by as well as making the
public and monitoring, reviewing, and coordinating the current health care system’s workforce
data on a timely basis. Based on this, the IOM insist that nurses need to achieve higher
educational levels and training skills through an improved system of education that promotes
whole academic progression (Unroe, Ersek & Cagle, 2015). The reports also denote about the
changes and expansion experienced in nursing within the last few decades that encompass