Professional Development of Nursing Professionals
Ifeyinwa Acholonu
11/19/2020
Professional Development of Nursing Professionals
The health care system has continued to evolve over the years, with critical changes meant to improve quality care and improve patient outcomes. The IOM report supports the importance of professional development in leadership and nursing education while caring for diverse populations (Institute of Medicine, 2010). This paper focuses on the report’s key messages, the effects of the nursing report, the importance of professional development, and nurses’ role in managing patient care.
Four messages and their Significances to the Nursing Practice
The need to transform practice: nurses needed to practice the full extent of the learned education and training. This could ensure that citizens could now access optimal health care services, and also their contribution to the community will be maximized. State actions were required to update on the regulations required to maximize the instituted training and education effectiveness. The full optimization of skill and education could ensure that the nurses are efficiently employed, whether in a hospital or outside the community, to the full extent of their education, skill, and competencies (Green, 2018).
The need to transform education: the message was all about how nurses could achieve high education levels. This could lead to seamless academic progression, thus ensuring safe, quality, and effective primary care, community, and public health (IOM, 2010).
The need to transform leadership: Nurses should be well equipped with physicians and all health professionals in redesigning health care in the health centers. Since not all nurses were to be leaders, yet leadership was essential in every health center, there was a need to educate and train them on all the required leadership techniques.
The need for better data on the health care workforce: better data collection and improved infrastructure was now required to achieve optimal and most effective health services (IOM, 2010). This could help the nurses to get more reliable information for better treatments. Also, patients could receive high level and effective services from the nurses. This could be made effective by collect data collection measures, thus more reliable information.
Influences of IOM on Education, Leadership, Benefits, and Opportunities for BSN Prepared Nurses
IOM nursing practices affect education so that nursing schools have been instituted an explosion of research and knowledge needed to provide health care in an increasingly complex system by adding layers of content that requires more instructions. Additionally, nurses have few incentives to pursue further education and face all the active disincentives to advance education. Nurses and physicians are not educated together (IOM, 2010).
IOM nursing practice influences leadership so that nurses could take on conceptualized roles in new settings, educating and reeducating themselves along the way. The introduction of more nursing schools also was entailed as a result of IOM nursing. Whether on the front lines, education, or administrative positions and health policy roles, nurses have well-grounded knowledge-based experience and perspective needed to serve as full partners in their health care work (American Nurse, 2020). The BSN-prepared nurses are directly linked with better patient outcomes, and also it gives the nurses credibility. This increases their efficiency in working and also improving their skills and competencies while attending to their patients.
Importance of Evolution of the Education and Role of the Nurse to Meet the Needs of an Aging and Diverse Population
After the IOM introduction of education, nurses are equipped with tools needed to evaluate and improve patients’ standards, and the quality and safety of patients are also achieved with more care and a responsible manner. Nurses can adapt and be flexible in science, technology, and population, which shapes care delivery. Moreover, they receive knowledge on managing complex conditions and coordinate care with educated. Additionally, nurses are in a vital position to provide geriatric care to the aging population. However, they should have the needed skills and education because older adults are subject to chronic health issues.
Significances of Professional Development, Lifelong Learning, about Diverse Populations across the Lifespan and Health-Illness Continuum
Well, skilled and competent nurses are equipped to keep pace with the rapidly changing demand for health care. They can also adapt and be flexible in responding to the diverse population and technology to achieve all the required health wants. The practices demonstrate new system thinking competencies, quality improvements, and care management on basic policies (Green, 2018). Lifelong learning will equip nurses to take care of extremely vulnerable populations. Nevertheless, the nursing field is large, and the nurses should professionally equip themselves effectively for their role.
Effectiveness of Nurses Managing Patient Care within an Evolving Health Care System
The IOM plays the main role in accomplishing the needs of health care patients. Nurses have all the required skills and competencies to handle their patients; they are also flexible in responding to the diverging technology and population. This helps them to achieve their goal in the health center and also to the community as well. They can also plan for the fundamental changes required to achieve a reformed health care system by understanding the necessary contributions of various professionals (Green, 2018). With the proposed changes, patient care will become a vital factor in health care through the nurses’ role.
Conclusion
The IOM report shows that nurses have the skills required for driving changes in healthcare settings. The changing system calls for critical nursing changes to provide the best quality care to patients. Nurses should therefore equip themselves sufficiently to give safe and quality health care to their patients effectively.
References
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