Recognizing The Changing Health Care System - 2383 Words

Introduction of Issue Recognizing the changing health care system, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), launched a two-year initiative to assess and transform the nursing profession. The report produced by the IOM RWJF, The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health, called out four key messages to guide the changes needed to heighten the future of nursing. One of these messages, nurses achieving higher levels of education- increasing baccalaureate prepared nurses to 80% by 2020, enforces the need for nurses to obtain higher degrees and changes the requirements for entry-level nurses. Improving education levels in the nursing workforce is beneficial to both the nurse receiving the education and the patient receiving care, however with expensive degree programs and an older workforce not willing to go back to school, turmoil has erupted within the profession. 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