Ten times every hour you want to take a deep breath in
and so this rises up and that helps prevent you from getting pneumonia
in your lungs.
A nurse is an expert clinician, comforter,
coordinator of complex care and patient advocate.
There's no rash, I don't see any rash. It just gets so itchy.
Nursing is the largest health care profession in this country with over
three million registered nurses.
As our population ages with more chronic illnesses
and the Affordable Care Act gives more people access to health care services
more highly skilled nurses are needed. I do believe that nurses have the
solutions
and we're on a path to get them there.
Alright, good job. Concerned about the growing demands on our health care system
and on the heels of a report about an impending nurse shortage
the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation enlisted the Institute of Medicine in 2008
to assess the changes needed to transform health care
through nursing. We worked with the Institute of Medicine because we wanted the
evidence and we needed a
national blueprint. It's called the Future of
Nursing: Leading Change Advancing Health.
The landmark IOM report contains four key messages about nurse training,
education, professional leadership and workforce policy.
which specific recommendations. Among them
Remove scope-of-practice barriers so Advanced Practice Registered Nurses are
able to practice to the full extent
their education and training. Increase the proportion of nurses with a
baccalaureate degree to
eighty percent by 2020 preparer and enable nurses to lead change to
advance health.
Build an infrastructure for the collection and analysis of inter-
professional health care
workforce data. I want to get programs that are working on things together.
To implement the IOM recommendations, RWJF partnered with the
largest consumer organization in the world,
AARP. It was found to make sure that people had health care
as well as economic security and we also have a very high priority for family
caregivers.
AARP had already established the Center to Champion Nursing in America
and so it was designated to coordinate the new
Campaign for Action. We do it through webinars and phone calls on
face-to-face meetings regionally and of course the most recent summit where we
brought all of the action coalitions
to Washington and believe me when they get together it's
pretty powerful. In just over two years
Action coalition's were established in every state and the District of Columbia
mobilizing thousands of volunteers in the nursing,
business, consumer and non-profit communities.
There has to be some transformative change
and what you were talking about
is a culture change. For two days in early 2013
representatives from all the action coalitions gathered in Washington
to talk about the challenges they faced. we've got today
We've got to do more coalition building
and get more solidified.
To share their struggles and successes.
I think it's extremely important for nurses to be on board and so I wanted to
gain
a little bit of knowledge from all of you to help to move that forward in
our state.
And to create a strategic game plan to address specific issues in their state.
We're focusing on doubling
the number of doctors
and workforce data collections.
The Campaign for Action website is a valuable resource for
action coalitions to find evidence about the issues,
to learn how to frame their messages and to track the campaign's progress.
They can also see whose partnering with other action coalitions
to help them strategize ways to reach out to stakeholders
who can strengthen their own organizations. This transformation is not
about
nurses, it's about nurses leading change
and not leading it alone, leading it with others.
So let me tell you what the plan is today for you, we want to get you
out of bed.
Nurses on the front lines of care and prevention,
at the bedside and in the community. Nurse scientists and researchers making
discoveries in the lab,
nurse faculty teaching the next generation of highly skilled nurse
leaders.
If our nation's health care system is to undergo
real transformational change to meet the growing demands of our population
nurses are the key.