Question

The Institute of Medicine’s report, The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health, addresses the need for nursing leadership; it discusses the potential for nursing to lead improvement and redesign the healthcare delivery system. Take a look at the video Transforming Care at the Bedside: Empowering Better Nursing Care to see what some nurses have done to improve healthcare in their facilities. Based on your nursing experience, what change would you like to implement to improve care? What are the first steps you would take to implement the change?,,

Answer 1

Answer: Transformation is required in the nursing practice to improve care. There should be change in the methods of providing care. The nurse should involve evidence based practice in their nursing practice. This should be encouraged. Nursing practice should be patient centered. To bring better outcomes, it is important that the nurse should implement better methods of delivering care.

To achieve this change it is important to understand the need of this change. The first step that should be taken is encouraging nurses to indulge themselves in learning methods, reading journals, research papers etc. This will enhance their knowledge.