NUR 513 Identify recommendations for nursing education you believe will be most effective or radical in creating change within the industry
Refer to the consensus report of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, The Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity, provided in the topic Resources. Identify recommendations for nursing education you believe will be most effective or radical in creating change within the industry. Provide rationale based on your experience in practice. Do you agree or disagree with how the report describes the evolution of the advanced practice registered nurse role? Why or why not?
According to the consensus report of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, The Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity, “The authoring committee produced a set of recommendations for the field of nursing and it provided a blueprint for improving nurse education; ensuring that nurses can practice to the full extent of their education and training; providing opportunities for nurses to assume leadership positions; and improving data collection for policymaking and workforce planning.” Out of the nine key recommendations the consensus report has addressed, the two main ones that I consider to be on the top level of importance within my community and organizations involve the nurse’s health and wellbeing and the inequities surrounding public health emergencies.
Recommendation 3: By 2021, nursing education programs, employers, nursing leaders, licensing boards, and nursing organizations should initiate the implementation of structures, systems, and evidence-based interventions to promote nurses’ health and well-being, especially as they take on new roles to advance health equity.
Recommendation 8: To enable nurses to address inequities within communities, federal agencies and other key stakeholders within and outside the nursing profession should strengthen and protect the nursing workforce during the response to such public health emergencies as the COVID-19 pandemic and natural disasters, including those related to climate change.
Recommendation 8 hits close to home on so many levels. I have been a nurse for 3 years, and the pandemic took me by surprise. I had been working as a nurse for about a year when Covid started. The a
NUR 513 Identify recommendations for nursing education you believe will be most effective or radical in creating change within the industry
mount of stress and distrust myself and my coworkers felt navigating around the everchanging policies and procedures associated with the pandemics CDC instruction was unnecessary. Unfortunately, I experienced the blatant disregard our organization had for our health and wellbeing by withholding and rationing vitally needed supplies when they were readily available for us to use. It was infuriating at the time, because this was a whole new ballgame for even the most seasoned nurses, and it caused a significant number of employees to resign. Management never came on the unit anymore like they used too and we felt abandoned. Bringing up the concerns with our director and management at staff meetings was futile and our concerns would be triumphed over with CDC recommendations and the organizations rationales based on fear and lack of knowledge. The COVID pandemic was an eyeopener to the world in terms of high-level planning and preparation for patient and provider safety.
I agree with how the report describes the evolution of the advanced practice registered nurse role. The solution the report proposes states, “The committee recommends that all relevant state, federal and private organizations enable nurses to practice to the full extent of their education and training by removing practice barriers that prevent them from more fully addressing social needs and social determinants of health and improve health care access, quality, and value.” Advanced practice nurses can help curb disparities and positively influence communities’ health and wellbeing by letting the ever evolving career of nursing take the front seat with the physicians and other specialty roles. As nurses we are in the frontlines and are the eyes and ears for our physicians. We may not be as edu
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