Section I: The current impact on nursing practice
The current U.S. health care system has substantial barriers to providing quality and accessible care at a very affordable price to many communities. It is characterized by a high degree of fragmentation across different sectors and this disconnects public and private services. This makes communications between health care providers difficult and this result to providing lesser quality of service to the people. The 2010 IOM report explored how the nursing profession can be changed to help transform the current health care system, so that it can meet the demand for safe, accessible, affordable quality patient-centered care. It focuses on ...