Future Of Nursing

In 2008, The Institute of Medicine (IOM) along with The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) comprised a report that would made recommendations for an action-oriented blueprint for the future of nursing. This was in response to a need to assess and transform the nursing profession. Nurses have an important role in transforming our current health care system (IOM, 2010). The IOM nursing reports have several recommendations that will propel us into the future of nursing.
There are eight total recommendations and it is important for all advanced practice nurses to focus on the recommendations to provide better practices. There is a lot of focus on education for nurses. IOM states that nurses should have lifelong continuing education, the number of nurses with a DNP should double by 2020, and the number of nurses with a baccalaureate degree should be increased to 80% by 2020 (IOM, 2010). I will have my master’s degree as an advanced practice nurse and depending on the setting of my practice, I will encourage other …show more content…
This not only applies to new graduate nurses but nurses going from one position to another. As a nurse practitioner, I will make myself available to participate in these residency programs. If there is a nurse advancing from a staff nurse position to nurse practitioner, I will volunteer to be a mentor or preceptor to them just as I have with nursing students. I currently work at a teaching facility and recently a nursing residency program was implemented. Many advanced practice nurses function in helping this program succeed by teaching and mentoring. Nurse residency programs improve nurses’ work experiences, increase retention of new nurses, and show financial return for organizations investing in nurses as resources. Residency evaluations show increases in leadership and communication skills and decreases in stress and turnover (Kosman,

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The Future Of Nursing

IOM Future Of Nursing