Section I: How is this currently impacting nursing practice?
Currently, the impact of 2010 IMO Report is being experienced in various implementations under the nursing practice. The education and training have been improved due to the introduction of innovative means. This target to ensure the level of nursing training education achieves the required skills for nursing practice. This education and training program are essential in ensuring all the registered nurses are qualified to undertake their mandate professionally (Goeschel, 2011). The nursing education system incorporates the current innovation in technology and application of latest medical instruments. This connects to the need for high qualified nurses to use this medical equipment and instruments in supporting and treatment of patients. Therefore, the 2010 IMO Report has ensured that there is a progressive review in the nursing education and training program to achieve the need change in the current nursing professionalism.
The relationship between the nurses and other medical physicians and healthcare professionals has contributed to high-quality healthcare services. The 2010 IMO Report has ensured collaborative approaches to ensure the entire medical professional are working closely and as one unit to ensure the safety o the patients. The nursing program formulates the teamwork association whereby it depends on with the physician approach toward the healthcare provider instruction (Kershaw, 2013). The nursing community is encouraging the nurses to advance their education and training to achieve higher knowledge to cope with the needs of healthcare. Furthermore, it is essential to improve the nursing practice to meet the current demand for healthcare services. This is undertaken through supportive programs from the federal government and other partners in both private and public program funders.
Lifelong learning is the key to professionalism development through improving in skills to meets the upcoming challenges effectively. The 2010 IMO Report ensures the practicing nurses are provided with a platform for improving in their professionalism through engaging in lifelong learning and training. The nursing education and training program is a progressive system that accommodates all the nurses to improve in their advanced education (Goeschel, 2011).
Section II: How will this impact future nursing practice?
The 2010 IMO Report has great impacts in the future nursing practice in ensuring the removal of all the scope-of-practice barriers. This would ensure all the nurses achieve the personal development as required in the developing health care sector in the provision of high-quality services. According to advanced registered nursing, the high education and training help in achieving of 2010 IMO Report recommendation goals. These goals are subjected to the interest of nursing practice development and ensure the healthcare sector meets the interests of all players. The nursing practice required being involved in achieving the changes that would transform the entire health sector. The need of having the 2010 IMO Report recommendation is to guide the implementation of the positive impacts that seeks to health care development.
According to 2010 IMO Report recommendation, the future nursing practice subjects to an increase of nursing proportion with baccalaureate degree by 2020 to be about 80% (Goeschel, 2011). This is the major milestone in the future nursing practice as a higher number of nurses will be qualified to achieve the nursing practice objectives. The health care sector requires more qualified professional willing to transform the sector for the best of high-quality services. The need of having a proportion of more than 80 percent with a baccalaureate degree is to ensure qualification of nursing practice is high and ready to meet the health demand. Therefore, it is important to the provision of possible health mechanism that would consider the wellbeing of all practicing nurses to improve in their training and education programs.
The 2010 IMO Report advocates doubling the number o nurses to that of doctorate by the year 2020. This is essential in ensuring the workforce contributes to achieving diversity in the healthcare system. Having a high number of the health professionals and especially the nurses, it would help in improvement of the research programs and efficiency in the medical services (Bleich, 2011). Having a higher number of the nurses, the health sector would achieve its mandate in the provision of high-quality services.
Section III: What will need to happen for these changes to occur?
In achieving the changes needed in the nursing practice, the 2010 IOM report has indicated procedural recommendations. These recommendations seek to improve the nursing practice and entire health care system. The preparation of the nurses and enabling them to affect the chances need to advance the health sector are supposed to be well articulated in their teaching and learning program. The nursing education and training program play major roles in ensuring the nursing fraternity contributes to the changes required in the healthcare system. The incorporation of advanced technology and innovation in the health sector to the training and education programs would ensure the nurse's meets and effects the changes required (Kershaw, 2013). The research and innovations would also contribute in bringing changes in the health professionalism. Nursing being the profession in the healthcare sector, the training and programs should ensure the registered nurses achieve basic research skills to improve in their duties. Therefore, collective contribution in the health sector from all the professional players would be essential in achieving the changes advocated by 2010 IOM report.
In building the infrastructure that is essential in collection and analysis, it helps in coordinating the inter-professional healthcare among the players as it shows the workforce coordination data. The technology and innovation in research enhance the development of the strategic approach and know-how in improving the healthcare sector. In developing appropriate health program, professional mechanisms are supposed to be aligned with the technological development especially in research and innovations (Bleich, 2011). The data generations from the health care records are essential in developing research analysis on the scientific issues that are predominantly affecting the entire sector. Therefore, the nursing training and education program would be aligned to the changes being experienced in the health sector. This would help in improving the health care administration through having incorporated the changed being realized.
Section IV: How can nurses be involved?
The nurses can be involved in the accomplishment of 2010 IMO Report through ensuring they engage in lifelong learning. The education and training program in the nursing professional provide platforms of learning new issues and things that are associated with the healthcare. Practicing nurses are provided with chances of advancing their education in acquiring more skills in their services (Goeschel, 2011). The lifelong learning helps in advancing in the professionalism and seeking an appropriate mechanism to deal become competence while in duties. The 2010 IMO Report encourages the practicing nurses to advance in their practice as funders are outsourced to support the program. Therefore, nurses can be involved in the accomplishment of quality and improved health care services through advancing in their skills.
Expansion of the opportunities for the nurses helps in collaborative efforts improvement in the health care sector. Like other professionalism, nursing is supposed to ensure they take part in leading change and advancing the health sector. This is through the implementation of 2010 IMO Report through expanding on the available opportunities such as advancing education and training program. This should be connected to the current world needs in the health sector, undertaking research analysis on the health issues and taking part in the implementation of the recommendations achieved (Kershaw, 2013). The process would enhance the health sector achievement and qualify the skills of practice nurse to understand and undertake complex health issues.
The players in the health sectors are supposed to initiate mechanism in the removal of practice barriers according to 2010 IMO Report. The approach would ensure all the practicing nurses have a wider chance in competing for higher achievement, especially in education and training. The medical professionals are supposed to collaborate in ensuring they work as a unit to improve the health sector (Goeschel, 2011). Therefore, the nurses can be involved in the entire medical decision-making and strategize on the healthcare development. Registered nurses are supposed to have attained and qualified to undertake the health care decisions regarding the well-being of patients and for other involved players.
The 2010 IMO Report Recommendations
The key issues and recommendations advocate the changes in leading, advancing and future nursing. The first recommendation includes removal of barriers in the scope of practice. The aim of this recommendation is to allow advanced practice registered nurses to fully utilize their training. The second recommendation focuses on the opportunities expansions for nurses leading to collaborative efforts. This helps in ensuring improvement in the efforts to meet the challenges of the nursing profession and healthcare sector (Goeschel, 2011). The third recommendation is implementation of nursing residency program initiates the nursing wellbeing and accommodation of diversity. The program seeks to achieve the nursing baccalaureate level focusing to 80 percent level by the year 2020 (Institution of Medicine of the National Academies, 2010). This fourth recommendation ensures the nursing professional undertake continuous education achievement in improving their skills, leadership and advancing healthcare sector.
In recommendation five, it targets having the number of nurses doubling the doctors by the year 2020. This would improve the achievement of required changes and advance the health sector. The sixth recommendation is engagement in the lifelong learning ensures the future of nursing to be bright in meeting the upcoming challenges in the healthcare sector (Institution of Medicine of the National Academies, 2010). Preparing and enabling the nurses to take appropriate measures in changing and advancing the health is under the seventh recommendation. It provides the nurses with the opportunity to take part in health sector development. Finally, the eighth recommendation focuses on the infrastructural collection and analysis that relates to the inter-professional health care. The approach contributes to improving the workforce in the sector to that it can improve the nursing professional and how nurses relate with other healthcare professions.
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