According to Garson (2000), the primary issues of healthcare, which were improving access, lowering costs, and improving the quality of care, would accelerate through 2010. Later in 2008, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) along with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation researched the need of radically changing the nursing profession to confront the issues of healthcare (National Academy of Sciences, n.d.). Through these issues the IOM has devised a report suggesting the transformation of nursing practice, education, and leadership. By transforming the nursing profession, the IOM will give way for positive changes in the healthcare system. With this said, the IOM has researched and devised a plan to confront the issues of healthcare, however, how will this impact the nursing profession? …show more content…
Though it seems that it was specifically made for nursing, it serves as a broader picture by ways of improving the access to healthcare, lowering the cost of it, and improving the quality of care. For this purpose the IOM report has set fundamentals changes such as the transformation of nursing education, practice, and leadership. For the remainder of this paper this paper I will elaborate on how the IOM report impacts the nursing