Running Head: IMPACTS OF IOM REPORT ON NURSING

IMPACTS OF IOM ON NURSING PRACTICE, EDUCATION AND

LEADERSHIP ROLES

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 Introduction.

Nursing is among the growing career in the field of medicine across the globe. The field

has grown and changed drastically for the last two decades. The change has accelerated because

of the importance of nursing practice. The report released by the Institute of medicine discusses

many issues in nursing, but this paper focuses on three areas only. Some of the areas that the

paper focuses on includes; practice, education and leadership roles.

The impact of report on transforming practice

The impact of this report on the primary care is very huge. From the last two decades, we

have realized that the field of nursing is increasingly developing and becoming essential. The

system is becoming integral in the healthcare sector and improving to cater to the demands of the

patients. Apparently, because of the growing population and the need for healthcare need, there

is the need for more nurses in the field. According to the research taken shows that without a

significant number of the nurses in the industry it would be impossible to avoid short service

delivery and untimely deaths of the patients. We have noticed that the field has changed

significantly and advanced to cope with the situation in the health sector (Kelly et al 2014).

The nurses need to make shifts in the mode of care practice to deal with the development.

The changes are also required to cope with the growth and the primary goals set in the report by

the planers. The report shows that the nurses serving in the healthcare sector will acquire high

skills and education that will facilitate service delivery. According to the researchers, by vision

2020 almost eighty percent of the nurses will obtain a degree in nursing to cope with the changes

in the sector (Kelly et al 2014).

 The impact on education

There is the need for expanding the roles of education and also improved systems. The

improvement need support to provide high support for the patients and also provide quality care.

The quality care creates satisfaction to the patients and therefore motivates the nurses to serve

better in their places of work. The system has improved by offering quality education to the

learners to equip them adequately for the roles they face in the workplace. The nurses have

acquired the education of high caliber such as degrees and diplomas in the institutions of higher

learning. Most of the nurses take four years in colleges and universities to acquire the bachelor's

degree that equips them to serve according to the needs of the patients that they take care.

Additionally, the education gives the nurses confidence to work by offering them the necessary

skills that enable them to perform duties well Billings and Halstead (2015).

The impact of leadership

According to the IOM report, the nurses viewed as leaders. They are thought to offer

leadership role in the design, implementation of duties and all the evaluation process.

Additionally, advocacy of the reforms will be needed to transform the sector according to the

current trend. The nurses should, therefore, move on with the agenda of advocating on the care

delivery of the entire system to bring changes in the sector Kelly et al 2014). The nurses should

speak the same language that involves policy and find ways of shaping and develop the industry

to improve more than the before (Kelly et al 2014).

According to the IOM report, the healthcare providers play challenging roles that lack an

exact solution to tackle correctly. The roles played by these service providers are interdependent

among themselves and therefore requires sacrifice and commitment. The report shows that the
nurses need to work with others with respect and effective collaboration to facilitate service

delivery. The type of the provision of services where the nurses collaborate with others helps in

creating patient satisfaction, fewer errors of medical and improved patient outcome. The report

also shows that transforming the current state of affairs in the hospital is not easy and therefore

requires much to be effective (Northouse, 2015).

Additionally, in the past, the nurses have been viewed by many people to carry duties

delegated by senior physicians. The nurses have been considered to act depending on the

authority of other hospital staff and not make their own decisions independently. To enable the

nurses to become full and efficient health partners, the nurses need some new competencies.

Some of these competencies include patience safety, cost management, patient safety, care

delivery, policy-making and translating the research. The nurses need to be educated sufficiently

to know their roles to improve their service provision in the workplace.

Additionally, the report emphasizes the need for mentorship programs of the nurses to

achieve the transformation (Master, 2015).The report states that the education that nurses get

should prepare them to be leaders across all the levels. Both the public and the private health care

decision makers should appoint some nurses in leadership positions to equip them adequately to

the current trends in the health sector.

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Masters, K. (2015). Role development in professional nursing practice. Jones & Bartlett

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Northouse, P. G. (2015). Leadership: Theory and practice. Sage publications.