IOM Report on the Future of Nursing: Recommendations and Implementation

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Introduction
The United States of America has strived to transform its healthcare systems to offer
affordable, seamless, quality care which is easily accessible to all the people in the country,
evidence-based, patient-centered and leads to enhanced outcomes of health. The country is
needed to remodel various facets and aspects of its healthcare system to achieve this goal. The
nursing profession is one area which needs transformation as it is one of the largest segments of
the healthcare workforce (McNeal, 2012). In this paper I will reflect on the institute of medicine
report, the future of nursing: leading change, advancing health. The refection is a vigorous
evaluation of the roles, education, and responsibilities of nurses and how it should be changed to
suit and meet the needs of the aging population, the progressively diverse population as well as
responding to the intricate dynamic healthcare system. The recommendations in the IOM report
focus on the vital intersection between the readiness of the healthcare workforce and health
needs of the people across all the lifespan.
The work of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Committee Initiative on the Future of
Nursing and IOM
The work of the committee and the Institute of Medicine was to come up with various
recommendation and programs needed to transform healthcare systems in the country. The
nursing profession is one of the largest segments in the healthcare systems, and for it to serve the
population more prudently, it needs to be reformed.

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IOM Report recommendations and importance
IOM report states that the nursing profession is the largest segment of the United States
of America healthcare workforce. Thus, nursing represents the biggest sector of the healthcare
system workforce having more than 3.4 million registered nurses in the country. The report states
that nurses must assist and respect the decisions, choices, and care for the patients in the ever-
dynamic healthcare settings. It is therefore, very prudent for nurses to be prepared as well as
become aware of the various transformations which are taking place around them especially in
the healthcare setting and the plans which put them at the core of the future (Goes, Savage &
Friedman, 2012; Friedman, Savage & Goes, 2013). According to the report, there are numerous
available residency programs in academic settings and acute care healthcare organizations. The
concept of residency should be used in the community-based environment. Education
transformation has been given a key space in the IOM report. In the report, it is required that
nurses acquire top-level training and education to operate in the dynamic healthcare structure. It
is important for nurses to advance training and education without experiencing hardships and
difficulties (Hassmiller & Combes, 2012). Opportunities to enhance education from the associate
degree in nursing, licensed practice in nursing or baccalaureate science in nursing, as well as the
advanced degrees, should be made available to all the nurses.
The report also recommends an enhanced lifelong and interprofessional learning for
nurses as it is extremely vital for nurses in the current healthcare settings. The committee of IOM
recommended that all nursing organizations, professional societies as well as education
programs, and the individual nurses made lifelong and interprofessional learning such and
continued learning programs so that they can be ever ready in the present evolving healthcare
settings (Shaffer, Davis, To Dutka & Richardson, 2014). The report also recommends a diversity