Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Committee Initiative: Future of Nursing

Implementation of the IOM Future of Nursing Report
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Implementation of the IOM Future of Nursing Report
Robert Wood Johnson, an education advocate, had an exceptional interest in hospitals. He noticed that hospital management needed special training to enable the administrators in the healthcare advance their management skills (NASEM, 2016). To achieve this fate, he started a school that could help give such training, worked with AARP and IOM among other institutions. He also advocated for patients who seemed lost in the healthcare jumble. In that case, this paper explores the progress made after the IOM report and provides the explanation and suggestions on the skills for the practice, education, and leadership that is essential improving the profession.
RWJF and the AARP
AARP, a nonpartisan and nonprofit organization, formed a joint initiative with RWJF to improve the future of nursing. The initiative led to the formation of Campaign for Action. It is assisting in implement the IOM’s evidence-based recommendations that would improve regarding the future of nursing. The Center to Champion Nursing in America (CCNA), which is an initiative of AARP, RWJF, and the AARP Foundation, is the coordinating entity for Campaign for Action (RWJF, n.d.). It also serves as the office of the national program for the Future of Nursing State Implementation Program. AARP also helps people realize their dreams, makes the communities stronger and fights for families in matters of healthcare, job security as well as retirement planning. AARP offers lifestyle tips, education and news information, produces AARP Magazine which is the world's most circulating magazine, books, and AARP Bulletin, and a bilingual news source, The AARP VIVA. It also operates , TV & a Radio station. All these activities help in promoting the Future of Nursing Campaign for Action and the State-Based Action Coalitions.
The RWJF Initiative and the IOM Report
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) teamed up with the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to launch a key initiative for the future of the nursing occupation. A committee was established to examine the capacity of the nursing personnel to meet the demands of a transformed public health and health care system. Bold nationwide recommendations were developed addressing nursing service delivery in a shortage setting and the capability of the nursing system of education and a Campaign for Action program initiated. ‘This program is designed to spur progress by supporting Action Coalitions, most of which are led by volunteers, that are doing promising work to implement the IOM recommendations,’ (RWJF, n.d.). Besides that, they established a clear agenda, as well as a blueprint action that included the policies of the institutions at the local, state and national levels (Melnyk et al., 2012). The recommendations, in the report, addressed various changes in the system that could solve challenges such as nursing personnel shortage in the United States. The committee worked on designing and implementing a healthcare system that could tackle major issues. The concerns included how to re-conceptualize the nursing roles, expansion of the faculty, exploring solutions to health care delivery and professional education and attracting and retention of well-prepared nurses is the various care settings (IOM, n.d.)
Future of Nursing (FON): Nursing Practice
The nation’s demographics were changing with time, and thus the IOM was obliged to initiate a shift in the health care sector to fit the needs. The current system faces chronic diseases such as arthritis, diabetes, and hypertension while the previous system was built around primarily on injuries and acute illnesses treatment (Melnyk et al., 2012). The practice’s aim is providing specific needs care to patients but no most convenient healthcare. Nurses should provide healthcare to their maximum capacity of their education and training. The IOM report had an impact on the nursing practice where the number of residents and medical students joining health profession has subsequently declined. Consequently, the Physician and NPs entrance in colleges have gone up over the past years (NASEM, 2016). There is fast growth in demand to establish health care setting that incorporates APRN’s because of the incline in the insurance coverage among other ACA services.
Future of Nursing (FON): Nursing Education
Nursing training in the 20th Century was no longer adequate to tackle 21st Century challenges. IOM recommended that nursing schools adopt rapid growth in health research in addition to knowledge. The curriculum was modified to carry both the information available and the new layers of fresh content that require further instruction. New education models and approaches are still being facilitated through IOM to tackle emerging information. The IOM report also recommended that competencies be moved to a higher-level rather than the task-based competence (Kutney-Lee, Sloane, & Aiken, 2013). The shift resulted in the creation of a foundation for sound management and decisions skills under various clinical conditions or care settings. IOM report also emphasized the importance of ret...