Professional Development in Nursing Practice

Running head: NURSING ASSIGNMENT
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
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Summarize the four messages outlined in the IOM report and explain why these are
significant to nursing practice.
The four key messages that were covered in the IOM report included the following
(Meghani & Hinds, 2015):
 Nursing professionals should practice to the complete scope of nursing education and
training. It can be said in this regard that increasing the scope of practice would lead
to positive patient outcome and maximise job satisfaction with the workforce.
 The nursing professionals must acquire higher education and training that is delivered
through an improved and refined education system. The vision of the education
system should emphasise more upon seamless academic progression in order to
enhance the quality of skills required for addressing patient needs.
 The nursing professionals should share equal partnership with the physician and other
allied healthcare professionals in order to redesign the existing healthcare
infrastructure to substantially address patient needs across the United States of
America. This would significantly ensure an effective coordination and smooth flow
of information within various healthcare departments.
 Effective workforce planning and policy making would require refined data collection
and inclusion of premium quality of infrastructure. Inclusion of reformed
infrastructure would yield improvement in the service quality.
Discuss the direct influence the IOM report has on nursing education and nursing
leadership. Describe the benefits and opportunities for BSN-prepared nurses.
According to the IOM the nursing professionals must acquire higher educational
degrees in order to address the critical and challenging needs of the patient. In addition to
this, the report also emphasises on restructuring the nursing leadership stature to enable

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professionals to undertake critical decisions and adapt to complex management systems to
improve the quality of services provided to the patients (Thomas, 2015).
The IOM has focused on the need to assist professionals to take up higher education
in the field of nursing profession. In order to encourage RNs to take up higher education and
bridge the shortage of primary care providers within the U.S healthcare system, the IOM has
assured a set of benefits and opportunities exclusively for the professionals who pursue
higher educations (Sabo:AWA, 2018). The benefits assured can be enlisted as:
BSN-prepared nurses address community needs in a better way and hence there is an
increased demand for them (Kunic & Jackson, 2013)
 Improved job opportunities. Local hospitals prefer BSN over RNs
 Improved pay scale offered to the BSN professionals
 BSN entrance serves as a primary eligibility criteria to enter community or state
college for higher education
Explain why it is important that a nurse's role and education evolve to meet the needs of
an aging and increasingly diverse population.
The IOM report critically focused upon the fact that the nursing professionals must be
adequately equipped with knowledge and expertise to meet the demand of the ageing
population base of the United States of America. In close association to this particular
recommendation published within the IOM report, it can be said that with the rapidly ageing
population base of the US, it is important for the professionals to understand the trend in
ageing and the concurrent chronic illness that affect people with ageing (National Academies
of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2016). It is important for the nurses to be
sufficiently trained to manage chronic illness health issues in order to prevent disease
progression and acute care episodes. In addition to this, it should also be noted that the