Running Head: THE FUTURE OF NURSING
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Influence the IOM report and state-based action coalitions on Nursing Profession
Name
Institutional Affiliation
Date
, THE FUTURE OF NURSING
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Work of the Robert Wood Foundation Committee Initiative
Nurse practitioners form the largest population of health care professionals. Thus they
can change the health care system in terms of offering quality care and improving access to care
when authorized to perform to the full scope of their education and knowledge. However, this
has not been the case in the United States. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) in 2008
realized this and faced the Institute of Medicine with the proposal to collaboratively assess the
work of nurses and react to the necessity to change the nursing profession in the United States.
Nurses were facing a lot of challenges that interfered with the care provision and
affecting the individual nurses because they were not doing what they learned in nursing schools.
They had a hard time realizing the purpose of the transformed health care system and
accomplishing the demands of national health. Thus, the RWJF, in collaboration with the IOM,
formed a two-year action on the Future of Nursing. The central part of the action was the
committee, which was accountable for generating a report that comprised of recommendation for
an action-oriented plan. These include alteration in governmental and institutional policies at the
federal, state, and local governments. After the report, the RWJF and the IOM then met later in
2010, where they discussed how they put the recommendations into action.
Key Messages
The committees, through collaboration with IOM, develop four important vital messages.
Firstly, that nurses should be authorized by the law to exercise to the complete scope of their
knowledge and education. Second, nurses must strive and obtain necessary or advance
knowledge and education through the enhanced or advance training system that supports
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Influence the IOM report and state-based action coalitions on Nursing Profession
Name
Institutional Affiliation
Date
, THE FUTURE OF NURSING
2
Work of the Robert Wood Foundation Committee Initiative
Nurse practitioners form the largest population of health care professionals. Thus they
can change the health care system in terms of offering quality care and improving access to care
when authorized to perform to the full scope of their education and knowledge. However, this
has not been the case in the United States. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) in 2008
realized this and faced the Institute of Medicine with the proposal to collaboratively assess the
work of nurses and react to the necessity to change the nursing profession in the United States.
Nurses were facing a lot of challenges that interfered with the care provision and
affecting the individual nurses because they were not doing what they learned in nursing schools.
They had a hard time realizing the purpose of the transformed health care system and
accomplishing the demands of national health. Thus, the RWJF, in collaboration with the IOM,
formed a two-year action on the Future of Nursing. The central part of the action was the
committee, which was accountable for generating a report that comprised of recommendation for
an action-oriented plan. These include alteration in governmental and institutional policies at the
federal, state, and local governments. After the report, the RWJF and the IOM then met later in
2010, where they discussed how they put the recommendations into action.
Key Messages
The committees, through collaboration with IOM, develop four important vital messages.
Firstly, that nurses should be authorized by the law to exercise to the complete scope of their
knowledge and education. Second, nurses must strive and obtain necessary or advance
knowledge and education through the enhanced or advance training system that supports
