NURS 3303 Concepts Of Professional Nursing
Questions
Professional Development of Nursing Professionals
2. Discuss the direct influence the IOM report has on nursing education and nursing leadership. Describe the benefits and opportunities for BSN-prepared nurses.
3. Explain why it is important that a nurse’s role and education evolve to meet the needs of an aging and increasingly diverse population.
4. Discuss the significance of professional development, or lifelong learning, and its relevance in caring for diverse populations across the life span and within the health-illness continuum.
5. Discuss how nurses can assist in effectively managing patient care within an evolving health care system.
Answers
1. The four key messages that were covered in the IOM report included the following (Meghani & Hinds, 2015):
- Nursing professionals should practice to the complete scope of nursing education and training. It can be said in this regard that increasing the scope of practice would lead to positive patient outcome and maximise job satisfaction with the workforce.
- The nursing professionals must acquire higher education and training that is delivered through an improved and refined education system. The vision of the education system should emphasise more upon seamless academic progression in order to enhance the quality of skills required for addressing patient needs.
- The nursing professionals should share equal partnership with the physician and other allied healthcare professionals in order to redesign the existing healthcare infrastructure to substantially address patient needs across the United States of America. This would significantly ensure an effective coordination and smooth flow of information within various healthcare departments.
- Effective workforce planning and policy making would require refined data collection and inclusion of premium quality of infrastructure. Inclusion of reformed infrastructure would yield improvement in the service quality.
2. According to the IOM the nursing professionals must acquire higher educational degrees in order to address the critical and challenging needs of the patient. In addition to this, the report also emphasises on restructuring the nursing leadership stature to enable professionals to undertake critical decisions and adapt to complex management systems to improve the quality of services provided to the patients (Thomas, 2015).
The IOM has focused on the need to assist professionals to take up higher education in the field of nursing profession. In order to encourage RNs to take up higher education and bridge the shortage of primary care providers within the U.S healthcare system, the IOM has assured a set of benefits and opportunities exclusively for the professionals who pursue higher educations (Sabo:AWA, 2018). The benefits assured can be enlisted as:
BSN-prepared nurses address community needs in a better way and hence there is an increased demand for them (Kunic & Jackson, 2013)
- Improved job opportunities. Local hospitals prefer BSN over RNs
- Improved pay scale offered to the BSN professionals
- BSN entrance serves as a primary eligibility criteria to enter community or state college for higher education
3. The IOM report critically focused upon the fact that the nursing professionals must be adequately equipped with knowledge and expertise to meet the demand of the ageing population base of the United States of America. In close association to this particular recommendation published within the IOM report, it can be said that with the rapidly ageing population base of the US, it is important for the professionals to understand the trend in ageing and the concurrent chronic illness that affect people with ageing (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2016). It is important for the nurses to be sufficiently trained to manage chronic illness health issues in order to prevent disease progression and acute care episodes. In addition to this, it should also be noted that the nursing profession is committed to provide a holistic and a culturally safe care to the patients irrespective of their cultural or ethnic background (Altman et al., 2016). In order to realize the same, it is important to ensure that the professionals are sufficiently equipped with cultural competency and render positive patient outcomes.
4. The IOM report specifically recommends that nursing professionals must engage in life-long learning and create an environment that reinforces the same spirit. In this regard, it should be mentioned that the healthcare sector is the most dynamic sector that is characterized by advancements in research and technology. Nursing professionals must harbour a spirit of continuous learning in order to support patients with critical healthcare needs belonging to diverse cultural communities (Stevens, 2013). Further, continuous training assists better ability of the professionals to care for patients placed in terminal or palliative care (Weston & Roberts, 2013). It can be mentioned in this regard, that the process of continuous learning is directly proportional to professional development and acquiring clinical expertise to deal with critical cases within the clinical scenario and deliver quality service to the patients.
5. Nurses must effectively assist and manage patient care by remaining updated with the evolving health care system (Sabo:AWA, 2018). Nurses must be educated in handling complex information management systems and be aware about the system improvement, evidence-based practices, recent research, healthcare policies and life-saving technology in order to improve the effectiveness of the quality of care delivered to the patient. Further, it should be noted in this regard that the nature of the disease and illness is rapidly assuming a more complicated form with the passing years. This significantly highlights the fact that there is a need to continuously improve and closely track the changes within the healthcare sector and accordingly undertake training and certification to address the changing trend of the treatment assistance delivered to the patients.
References:
Altman, S. H., Butler, A. S., & Shern, L. (Eds.). (2016). Assessing progress on the Institute of Medicine report The Future of Nursing. National Academies Press.
Kunic, R. J., & Jackson, D. (2013). Transforming nursing practice: Barriers and solutions. AORN journal, 98(3), 235-248.
Meghani, S. H., & Hinds, P. S. (2015). Policy brief: The Institute of Medicine report Dying in America: Improving quality and honoring individual preferences near the end of life. Nursing outlook, 63(1), 51-59.
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2016. Assessing progress on the Institute of Medicine report The Future of Nursing. National Academies Press.
Sabo:AWS, A. (2018). Grand Canyon University – Digital Resources. Retrieved from https://www.gcumedia.com/digital-resources/grand-canyonuniversity/2018/dynamics-in-nursing_art-and-science-of-professional-practice_1e.php
Stevens, K. R. (2013). nursing and the next big ideas. Pp.111-113
The Sentinel Watch (2018). IOM Advocates for Higher Levels of Nursing Education. [online] The Sentinel Watch. Available at: https://www.americansentinel.edu/blog/2011/01/10/iom-advocates-higher-nursing-education/ [Accessed 6 Dec. 2018].
Thomas, T. (2015). Management and leadership for nurse administrators. Jones & Bartlett Publishers.
Weston, M., & Roberts, D. (2013). The influence of quality improvement efforts on patient outcomes and nursing work: A perspective from chief nursing officers at three large health systems. OJIN: The Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, 18(3), 1-10.
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