Nursing Role In Nursing Education

Nursing has been influenced by a myriad of factors since the days of Florence Nightingale. Influences of wars, influences from the need for caring for loved ones at home, and the shortages of nurses, to name a few, has even caused how the nursing role has evolved. Additionally, there has been a shift in the rapidity and a change in the format of nursing education. The demands seen in the need for advances of medicine has initiated some to review the future of nursing. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) Report, The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health in November, 2010, is a report that is the result of the Initiative on the Future of Nursing, sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) (ANA, 2016), that looks at the role nurses should play in a changing healthcare system.

The Impacts of the Institute Of Medicine Report The IOM’s “key messages” has had major impacts on several factors of nursing. The IOM report has made major influences on achievements of higher levels of nursing education. It has made an impact in nursing practice, particularly primary care. It has swayed the nurse’s role to emerge as a leader. Furthermore, the IOM report prompts one to examine

The law required the two state public education sysytems community colleges-CCC and the California State University-CSU systems to streamline nursing education progression by the fall of 2012 (Jones, 2015). In Minnesota, to increase student access to a baccalaureate program and attainment of a bachelor’s degree in the science of nursing (BSN) the IOM report strengthened momentum for Minnesota Alliance for Nursing Education (MANE). According to its project director, Fay Uppman, MS, RN, MANE was already in development in 2010, Uppman said, but the IOM report lent it “substance” and “validity”, and support from the Minnesota Action Coalition helped it “move forward.” (Jones,