The Impact of the 2010 IOM Report on The Future of Nursing
The United States is at a significant junction. Health care reforms are being carried out and the system is beginning to change. The largest component of the health care workforce is nurses and the needs to strengthen this group will only improve the delivery of care and the health care system. The IOM and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation established that accessible, high quality care cannot be achieved without extraordinary nursing care and leadership (American Nurses Association, 2014, p. 1).
The report calls on nurses individually and as a profession to embrace changes needed to promote health, prevent illness and care for people across the lifespan. The report also calls for support from interprofessional collaborations from physicians, dieticians, physical therapist and other multisector professions to work with nurses to make the changes necessary for a more accessible, cost efficient and high quality health care system. This report expands on the theme that high quality, safe, evidence based patient centered care is a critical role of nursing and that to have a successful health care system rests on the future of nursing (Institute of Medicine, 2010).
In 2010 the President signed into law and Congress approved health care legislation called the Affordable Care Act. This legislation gives the United States the opportunity to transform its health care system to provide seamless, affordable, quality care that is accessible to all. To make this transformation possible a remodeling of many different aspects of the health care system will need to take place. This is especially true of the largest segment of the healthcare...
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