Implementation of the IOM future of nursing report

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Subject Area:Nursing

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The committee carried out several activities among them; examining the available nursing workforce capacity to optimally address the USA needs of the reformed healthcare as well as the dynamic public healthcare system. The committee later came up several recommendations to address effective delivery of quality nursing services in an environment with strained workforce, besides the recommendations pertaining the capacity of education systems in place for the nurses (Ogbolu, Ford, Cohn & Gillespie, 2017). The committee also defined several agenda together with a clear blueprint for the action which included national as well as state based policies. All these recommendations, were to aid in addressing several system changes including addressing the inadequate nurses population in the USA. The committee examined several issues which they late gave recommendations, among these issues were; increasing the nursing faculty by expansion of nursing schools, relevant reformation of the nursing education to produce high number of nurses, besides thorough preparation of nurses to effectively meet the present and future demands in the healthcare delivery.

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In addition to that, the report recommended expansion of nurses’ opportunities to facilitate diffusive and collective improvement efforts. This was to ensure private funder to pool and support research in care and innovative approaches, the Medicare together with Medicaid were to support establishment and subsequent evaluation of care delivery besides payment models (Sharma, 2007). The state based action coalition plays key roles which advance the goals of future nurse. These roles include; advocating for transformation in nursing education, the state of Texas action coalition provide several strategies to facilitate easier access to BSN degree or even beyond, besides advancement from RN to BSN degrees provided at various community colleges. The coalition also seeks various academic partnerships which avail scholarship to various minority students to pursue BSN-completion courses (Hassmiller, 2011).

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Fostering inter-professional collaboration and building a healthier community; under this the nurses play key advisory roles at food banks and farm markets, they may accompany the clients to farmer markets in the vicinity to educate them on the role of fresh foods. This promotes healthier living as lifestyle diseases are greatly reduced (Sharma, 2007). The above initiatives advance the nursing profession by expanding the scope of practice for instance one may specialize as a disaster management nurse, through the second initiative, the nurse is able to offer advice to not only the patient but the farmer or seller of the fresh food, by doing so several food related diseases are reduced. The nurse also serves as a nutritionist, calling for an extensive training in the line of nutrition (Hassmiller, 2011).

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