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Nurses to lead change to advance health care
The Role of the Nurse in Transforming Healthcare is to equip the nurse with knowledge about this historic report and its significance in shaping the future of healthcare and nursing.
Nurses are Key to Healthcare Reform. Improved access can be achieved by expanding the availability of healthcare services and by broadening services that provide reasonable patient choices. Most nursing leaders agree that healthcare should be safe, effective, patient-centred, timely and efficient
Nurses need to be full partners in shaping health care and health care policy. One way to do this is to be present and active on boards at all levels. The orientation experiences of nurses involves to influence health care and health care policy.
Nurses have the unique responsibility of bringing the business of caring to board agendas. Nurse executives are charged with the induction of non-members to the health care industry by giving those opportunities to regularly interact with patients and the professionals who serve them. Nurses and nurse executives also have expert knowledge of how to best achieve high-quality, safe care.
The key role of bringing change to advance health care
-Create a professional workforce with the skills and knowledge to meet the needs of citizens for improved access, high quality and value care.
-Prepare and enable nurses to lead change to advance health
-Collect workforce data that is consistent across states
- Foster an environment that provides consumers with access to high-quality care that meets their needs for affordability, access, and quality
-Nurses should practice to the full extent of their education and training.
-Nurses should achieve higher levels of education and training through an improved education system that promotes seamless academic progression.
-Nurses should be full partners, with physicians and other health care professionals, in redesigning health cares
-Effective workforce planning and policy making require better data collection and an improved information infrastructures.
Nurses are already committed to delivering high-quality care under current regulatory, business, and organizational conditions. But the power to change the conditions to deliver better care does not rest primarily with nurses, regardless of how ably led or educated they are; it also lies with governments, businesses, health care institutions, professional organizations and other health professionals, and the insurance industry.By virtue of its numbers and adaptive capacity, the nursing profession has the potential to effect wide-reaching changes in the health care system.