The Role Of The Future Of Nursing

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Nurses constitute the greatest sector of health care workers, and are vital to meeting the objectives of the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA). Identifying the barriers that nurses face, and recommending a plan to overcome those barriers, were the goals of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in their two-year movement to “assess and transform the nursing profession” (The National Academies of Sciences, 2016). This paper will recapitulate the IOM report, Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health. It will also recognize the position of the RWJF and the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) on the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action. It will stress the implication of the IOM report as it relates to the nursing vocation and examine the objectives of the Future of Nursing: Campaign …show more content…

According to the CAC website, proposed incentives include higher pay for higher degrees, scholarships, grants, tax breaks, and loan forgiveness. Suggestions for schools include different start times, pairing hospitals with BSN programs, improving convenience, more relevant studies, increasing pay for teachers, reducing the number of classes for experienced RNs, and removing statistics from the curriculum. Hospital suggestions include flexible schedules for enrolled students, increasing recognition, increasing the number of mentors, increasing the opportunity for advancement, and eliminating ADNs from the bedside by 2020. Another initiative, also aimed at higher education, is to develop a standardized curriculum workgroup. Suggestions from the coalition include standardized simulation, a continuing mental health thread, decreasing obstetrics, labor and delivery, and pediatrics, standardizing RN to BSN curriculums, and developing relevant

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