Nursing Professional Development: IOM Report and Its Effects on Nursing

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Nurses need transformation in various areas to ensure improved care, including
education, practice, and technology others to ensure progress in practice. This paper will review
the institute of Medicine report and its effects on nursing, mainly in nursing practice, education,
and leadership.
The IOM report identified four messages that are used as a guide to the change;
Nurses should practice to the full level of their education and training. Even with
exceptional education and training, nurses are likely to face various barriers that may not allow
them to utilize it to their full potential (Bastable, 2017). The obstacles may be regulatory,
historical and policy, dynamic, fragmented health care system, and challenging transition from
school to practice. Based on the reports finding regulations were identified as a significant
limiting factor the leads to an inflexible working environment.
Improve nursing education. The IOM report identified that nurse fundamental
competencies have significantly increased with time, including public health, geriatrics,
teamwork, leadership, change management, among others. Nurses are taking care of complex
patients with the help of more technology and incorporating and synthesizing information from
differ sources (Institute of Medicine, 2011). The report identified the factors points to the need
for more education that is based on the provision of a direct and straightforward progression to
higher levels.
Nurses should ensure partnership with doctors and other medical practitioners in
redefining healthcare systems. The IOM reported pointed out that as full partners in healthcare,
the nurses should ensure accountability for their contribution to the health of their patients and

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work in collaboration with other healthcare professionals (Institute of Medicine, 2011). The
report identified that leadership skills should be recognized as a core competency at different
levels of nursing and should be enforced throughout the nursing programs.
Implement workforce planning and policymaking requires advanced data collection and
sophisticated technological approach. The report identified that the healthcare sector should
develop an advanced and organized strategy for data collection (Yoder-Wise, 2014). The data to
be collected include the types and numbers of medical practitioners across the country where
they are employed as well as their activities and duties. The detailed information is critical in the
identification of the healthcare needs that are not met. The data can as well be used to assess and
plan a prospective nursing workforce needs effectively. The data is also essential in guiding and
suggesting necessary changes in nursing education and practice.
The main recommendation raised in the report is the future of nursing education. The
findings indicates there is a need to have vastly educated and accomplished nurses and a more
improved education system. The report identifies that in the past, the education system has not
met the demand for current healthcare issues. Due to the complexity in patient care, the nurse
needs to be highly competent to ensure exceptional delivery of quality care (Cherry & Jacob,
2016). Medical practitioners with BSN are well prepared to meet the changes and demands that
are facing the healthcare sector today. BSN nurses have an advantage due to their exceptional
leadership skills, critical thinking, incident management, and health advancement. The nurses are
also capable of practice in a diversified environment.
The IOM report, indicates that nurses should attain higher educational levels and training
in a system that promotes unified academic development. In the contemporary day, health issues
facing the population have significantly changed. The united states older people has increased