The future of nursing: leading change, advancing health

The Nursing practice has broader scope as it covers a broad continuum from health promotion, to disease prevention, to coordination of care, to cure and to palliative care when cure isn’t possible. However, many members of the profession require more education and preparation to adopt new roles quickly in response to rapidly changing health care settings and an evolving health care system. IOM received these recommendations by acknowledging the unique role that nurses play within the health care system. Because nurses have regular and shut proximity to patients and scientific understanding of care processes across the continuum of care, they have a singular ability to act as partners with other health…