Nurses make up the largest segment of the health care profession, with 3 million registered nurses in the United States. Nurses work in a wide variety of settings, including hospitals, public health centers, schools, and homes, and provide a continuum of services, including direct patient care, health promotion, patient education, and coordination of care. They serve in leadership roles, are researchers, and work to improve health care policy. As the health care system undergoes transformation due in part to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the nursing profession is making a wide-reaching impact by providing and affecting quality, patient-centered, accessible, and affordable care.

In 2010, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released the report The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health, which made a series of recommendations pertaining to roles for nurses in the new health care landscape. This current report assesses progress made by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/AARP Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action and others in implementing the recommendations from the 2010 report and identifies areas that should be emphasized over the next 5 years to make further progress toward these goals.

Contents

• The National Academies of SCIENCES • ENGINEERING • MEDICINE
• COMMITTEE FOR ASSESSING PROGRESS ON IMPLEMENTING THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE REPORT THE FUTURE OF NURSING: LEADING CHANGE, ADVANCING HEALTH
• Reviewers
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Acronyms and Abbreviations
• Summary
  • STUDY CHARGE AND APPROACH
  • STUDY CONTEXT
  • STUDY FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
  • CONCLUSION
• 1. Introduction
  • CONTEXT
  • STUDY SCOPE
  • OVERVIEW OF THE FUTURE OF NURSING: LEADING CHANGE, ADVANCING HEALTH
  • THE FUTURE OF NURSING: CAMPAIGN FOR ACTION
  • RWJF ACTIVITIES OUTSIDE OF THE CAMPAIGN
  • ORGANIZATION OF THE REPORT
  • REFERENCES
• 2. Removing Barriers to Practice and Care
  • ACTIVITY AND PROGRESS
  • DISCUSSION
  • FINDINGS AND CONCLUSION
  • RECOMMENDATION
  • REFERENCES
• 3. Achieving Higher Levels of Education
  • INCREASE THE PROPORTION OF NURSES WITH A BACCALAUREATE DEGREE TO 80 PERCENT BY 2020
  • IMPLEMENT NURSE RESIDENCY PROGRAMS
  • DOUBLE THE NUMBER OF NURSES WITH A DOCTORATE BY 2020
  • ENSURE THAT NURSES ENGAGE IN LIFELONG LEARNING
  • RECOMMENDATIONS
  • REFERENCES
• 4. Promoting Diversity
  • INTRODUCTION
  • ACTIVITY
  • PROGRESS
  • DISCUSSION
  • FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS
  • RECOMMENDATION
  • REFERENCES
• 5. Collaborating and Leading in Care Delivery and Redesign
  • INTERPROFESSIONAL COLLABORATION
  • PREPARING NURSES TO LEAD
  • NURSES IN LEADERSHIP POSITIONS
  • THE CAMPAIGN FOR ACTION'S COMMUNICATION EFFORTS TO SUPPORT COLLABORATION AND LEADERSHIP
  • RECOMMENDATIONS
  • REFERENCES
• 6. Improving Workforce Data Infrastructure
  • ACTIVITY AND PROGRESS
  • DISCUSSION
  • FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS
  • RECOMMENDATION
  • REFERENCES
• Appendices
  • Appendix A. Data Sources and Methods
  • Appendix B. The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health Key Messages and Report Recommendations
  • Appendix C. Committee Biographies

Suggested citation:

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. Assessing Progress on the Institute of Medicine Report The Future of Nursing. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.