Trends in Health Care

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Trends in Health Care

Question 1

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) together with the Institute of Medicine (IOM) established a key initiative on the report of ‘Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health.’ Initially, the program intended to carry out a major study with an objective of producing a transformational report about the forthcoming of nursing ("About RWJF", 2016). Thus, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation planned to examine the capacity of the workforce in the nursing sector. The reason for this was to meet the demands of having a reformed public health system and a rehabilitated health care ("About RWJF", 2016). Besides, the foundation decided to cultivate a set of audacious national recommendations. These recommendations included the ones that discourse the distribution of nursing services in a dearth environment and the size of the education system in nursing. Additionally, in the report, they are to define a vibrant agenda, as well as a blueprint for action such as the changes in the institutional policies and the public, both at the local, state and national levels. The committee’s recommendations would discourse some changes in the system. These changes would include some innovative ways for solving the United States’ issue of shortage in nursing. 

            Together with the objective of recognizing critical roles for nurses in designing a more operative system of health care, this foundation may scrutinize and yield recommendations that relate to the following problems. One is re-conceptualizing the nurses’ roles within the entire workforce, the societal problems, current technology, future technology, and the shortage. Two is the expansion of faculty of nursing, nursing schools, as well as redesigning the education of nursing so that it may produce a proper number of well-prepared personnel that is in a position of meeting the health care requirements. Three is scrutinizing advanced solutions that relate to the delivery of care and education in health profession through concentrating on the nursing education and how the services are delivered. Last is attracting nursing personnel that is well-prepared in multiple areas. These settings include primary care, acute care, ambulatory, community and public health, as well as long-term care ("New York", 2016).

Question 2

            The report by the Institute of Medicine: The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health, has great significance to the nursing practice, nursing workforce development, and nursing education. The report is an in-depth analysis of the nursing workforce. It has recommendations that concentrate on the vital combination between the health’s requirements of different varying populaces across the nursing workforce actions and the lifespan. As well, these recommendations are meant to sustenance efforts so that the health of the people in the United States improves through proper nurses’ contributions to care delivery.

            The recommendations stated in the IOM report have their concentration on the following issues: First, the nursing personnel should thoroughly rehearse on their education and training. Second, they should have high grades in their studies and training following an improved system of education that is intended to endorse seamless progression in academic. Third, redesigning care of health in the United States would require the nurses to be complete associates with their physicians, as well as other professionals of health. Fourth, effective policy making and proper planning of the workforce would need a better collection of data, as well as information infrastructure.

            Lastly, the report is premeditated in such a way that it can function as a framework for changes in nursing and the delivery system in health care. These solutions in nursing are headed for the individual policy makers, payers, executives, local and national government leaders, medical scholars, philanthropic and advocacy organizations, educational institutions, and other professionals.

Question 3

            The state-based action coalitions are meant to lead the nursing personnel into campaigns at both state and local levels. These campaigns will further help them to form a robust network of stakeholders from diverse backgrounds with a clear intention of transforming the care of health through nursing. Further, they advance goals of the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, by increasing the nation’s volume of educating and retaining the nursing personnel who are made ready and sanctioned to impact costs, access and quality of healthcare in a positive way. Besides, they work towards building and sustaining the nursing labor force in the 21st century with the required skills and awareness.

            The initiatives spearheaded by New York’s action coalition are the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the AARP Foundation. They advance the nursing profession by demonstrating comprehensive, nonpartisan action support on the recommendations of the nursing report. They also encourage the high-level leaders from different fields to be involved in the actions coalitions. Other than that, they generate the significant attention from the media to any issue. Lastly, they ensure the local, state and national levels are involved.

The AARP initiative intends to spur the entrepreneurial doings through the private and public sectors. It enlists the expertise of entrepreneurs, the industry, not for profits, the investment communities and the visionary thinkers to spark innovation to encounter the requirements of the citizens over 50. Additionally, it also catalyzes the research and assists in shaping the ethos of a marketplace through the promotion of core unifying principles like the “design for all” ("About the Innovation@50+ initiative", 2016). It also stimulates other models of business reflecting the broad transformation in how the life after 50 can be imagined. Other than that, the 50-plus individuals to access, thrive, and communicate in a new durable economy.

            The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, on the other hand, is the largest initiative of the nation that is dedicated to health. Since 1972, it has been of great support to research and other programs that target the America’s most pressing issues of health ("About RWJF", 2016). It starts right from abuse of substance to access improvement to eminence health care. It works towards building a national health culture. Besides, its goal is to assist in raising the health of the Americans to the point that is deserved by a great nation ("About RWJF", 2016). It places people’s well-being at the center of all the aspects of life.

      Lastly, New York faces several barriers to advancement. Among them are education, diversity, and inter-professional collaboration. However, the nursing advocates overcome these issues through attaining an improved education which will enable them to deliver high-quality care to the patients ("New York", 2016). Other than that, they engage in partnerships with other different stakeholders so that they can spread, support and implement models of inter-professional collaboration in training.