IOM Report: Recommendations for the Future of Nursing

The Institute of Medicine's report on the future of nursing offers recommendations for increasing the proportion of nurses with a baccalaureate degree and a doctorate, and ensuring lifelong learning. This paper analyzes the recommendations and discusses how the author plans to align with them.

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Introduction
In 2010, the Institute of Medicine came up with an extensive report detailing various
recommendations which pinpoint progressive planning for the nursing future. The report was a
response to challenges facing nursing and offered solutions to the speedily dynamic and
changing model of healthcare. The nursing profession is one of the largest segments of the
healthcare system in the united states of America and having a higher educated, and well-trained
nurse is expected for patient outcomes as well as patient care. In the report, it is expected that
nurses should always maintain leadership roles as well as become vital healthcare policymakers
to reduce costs. The IOM report states that the way and nurses were trained and educated in the
early 20th century is not applicable in the current evolving healthcare setting especially in the
United States of America. The needs for the patients are constantly evolving along with the care
settings. In this paper, I will analyze recommendations of IOM report and state how I will align
myself to those recommendations.
Recommendation number four; Increase the proportion of nurses with a baccalaureate
degree to 80% by 2020
The promotion of nurse’s pursuit of a doctor of philosophy degree and doctor of nursing
is done through expansion programs and offering incentives. To achieve this recommendation, I
will make sure that I pursue a baccalaureate degree in nursing. Before I become a registered
nurse, I will work under a qualified and professional nurse who will train me on how to
undertake nursing practices like a person-centered care model (Bugel, 2018).
Recommendation five; doubling the number of nurses with a doctorate by 2020

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With the ever-evolving healthcare environment, it is prudent for nurses to educate and
train themselves to handle the dynamic needs of patients. I will enroll and have a doctorate so
that I can lead reforms in the healthcare system at all the program levels and to lead patient
outcomes development and improvement initiatives in the country (Nickitas & Feeg, 2011). The
reforms that I will undertake will ensure that more nurses are enrolled in the doctoral programs.
Since most of the nurses claim that Ph.D. programs are too expensive and take too long (Taylor
& Neimeyer, 2012), I will ensure that I come up with reforms to change this narrative.
Recommendation number six; ensuring that nurses engage in lifelong learning
In this recommendation, I will undertake a continued education in which I learn from my
seniors and juniors in healthcare delivery. I will always keep up to date with the emerging
knowledge in nursing and advances which are undertaken in healthcare systems.
The higher level of education and the job market
Having a higher level of education, for instance, in BSN, will ensure that I will be highly
competitive in the job market. Most employers prefer nurses having a higher degree since they
believe that they are experts who have been tested. Most healthcare organizations prefer to
employ nurses who would want to pursue higher roles like leadership roles.
Higher education and the future of nursing
Having a higher level of education like Ph.D. in nursing will make me have or pursue
leadership roles in the healthcare system (Folan et al., 2012). I will be one of the policymakers
who will drive the transformation in the healthcare system and also train and educate other
nurses who enroll as BSN students.

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Conclusion
IOM report was one of the important milestones in the healthcare system in the USA as it
detailed recommendations which are to be done to reform the nursing sector.

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(2012). Leadership Initiatives to Disseminate the Institute of Medicine’s Future of
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Nickitas, D. M., & Feeg, V. (2011). Doubling the Number of Nurses with a Doctorate by 2020:
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Taylor, J. M., & Neimeyer, G. J. (2012). Continuing Professional Development and Lifelong
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