The IOM future of nursing, have made essential proposals for the nurses to attain higher education to remain viably important in the evolving health care reform. I would use this paper to examine my fitting into the IOM Future of Nursing suggestions. IOM recommendation 4 underscores on the need to, “increase the proportion of nurses with a baccalaureate degree to 80 percent by 2020” (Institute of Medicine [IOM], 2010, p. 12). By God’s abundant grace, I will be one of the nurses who will be fitting into this recommendation since, I am expecting to receive my Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) from the Grand Canyon University (GCU) well before 2020. A question I have asked myself many times before enrolling into the BSN program is: do you really
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13). There are two streams for the nurses to attain a doctorate degree: Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP), which is geared to direct patient care practice, and the application of evidence based knowledge of healthcare; and a PhD which is geared to an academic career, and the generation of evidence based knowledge using researches (Khan, 2015). Report also calls for funding increase to accelerated masters and doctorate degrees for the nurses, and offer competitive remuneration and perks to retain highly accomplished nursing faculty. These programs are costly and require a longer time commitment to complete. Based on the mode of learning, after completing the MSN, a DNP preparation may require another two to three years while the PhD program requires an extended time ranging from four to five years (Johnson, 2014). Even though both programs are viewed as the most elevated level of nursing education and provide better patient outcome, I do not see myself fitting into this recommendation by attaining a doctorate degree by the year of 2002, because of the financial and time …show more content…
Nurses will be working more in a primary care setting to promote prevention and wellness, and they need to manage more chronic health conditions than acute care due to the shift in nation’s demographics and increase in the obesity level (National Academy of Sciences, 2015). The nurses are expected to emerge and leaders and managers who can address the needs of the community and groups and provide safe and effective care to patients with complex as well as ineffectively characterized needs. Subsequent to accomplishing my BSN degree I will acquire the critical thinking skills, knowledge, and independent nursing judgments to work in a collaborative platform to address health issues of the group beyond the individual by leading and managing health care
13). There are two streams for the nurses to attain a doctorate degree: Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP), which is geared to direct patient care practice, and the application of evidence based knowledge of healthcare; and a PhD which is geared to an academic career, and the generation of evidence based knowledge using researches (Khan, 2015). Report also calls for funding increase to accelerated masters and doctorate degrees for the nurses, and offer competitive remuneration and perks to retain highly accomplished nursing faculty. These programs are costly and require a longer time commitment to complete. Based on the mode of learning, after completing the MSN, a DNP preparation may require another two to three years while the PhD program requires an extended time ranging from four to five years (Johnson, 2014). Even though both programs are viewed as the most elevated level of nursing education and provide better patient outcome, I do not see myself fitting into this recommendation by attaining a doctorate degree by the year of 2002, because of the financial and time …show more content…
Nurses will be working more in a primary care setting to promote prevention and wellness, and they need to manage more chronic health conditions than acute care due to the shift in nation’s demographics and increase in the obesity level (National Academy of Sciences, 2015). The nurses are expected to emerge and leaders and managers who can address the needs of the community and groups and provide safe and effective care to patients with complex as well as ineffectively characterized needs. Subsequent to accomplishing my BSN degree I will acquire the critical thinking skills, knowledge, and independent nursing judgments to work in a collaborative platform to address health issues of the group beyond the individual by leading and managing health care