Nursing in a transformed health care system: new roles, new rules
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- Research brief (Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics)
- Author(s):
- Fraher, Erin, author Spetz, Joanne, author Naylor, Mary, author
- Contributor(s):
- Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, issuing body. Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative, issuing body. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, issuing body.
- Publication:
- [Philadelphia, Pennsylvania] : Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, June 2015
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Delivery of Health Care Health Care Reform Legislation, Nursing Nurse's Role Nursing Professional Practice -- legislation & jurisprudence Caregivers Education, Nursing Geriatric Nursing Insurance, Health, Reimbursement Interdisciplinary Communication Job Description Medical Informatics Nurses -- supply & distribution Transitional Care Humans United States
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- Key takeaway message: Although the supply of nurses is likely to meet overall demand, the nature of a nurse's job is changing dramatically. In redesigned health care systems, nurses are assuming expanded roles for a broad range of patients in ambulatory settings and community-based care. These roles involve new responsibilities for population health, care coordination and interprofessional collaboration. Nursing education needs to impart new skills and regulatory frameworks need to be updated to optimize the contributions of nurses in transformed care delivery models. Introduction The health care system is undergoing rapid changes that put new emphasis on population health, quality of care, and the value of the services delivered. These changes present both opportunities and challenges to the 2.9 million registered nurses (RNs) employed in the United States. There are about four times as many nurses in the health workforce than there are physicians; nurses, by sheer numbers, will play a significant role in this transformation, and will themselves be transformed in the process. Because immediate concerns about RN shortages have abated, there is an opportunity to turn attention and resources away from expanding the educational pipeline toward redesigning the system to support nursing practice in a transformed heath care system. In this Research Brief, we describe the changing roles nurses have in the delivery system and assess the educational, policy, and regulatory structures that must change with them. We address the fundamental question: how can we create the right mix of nurses in the right locations, specialties,
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (10 pages)).
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101679491 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101679491