In 2008, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) launched a two-year initiative to respond to the need to assess and transform the nursing profession. The IOM appointed the Committee on the RWJF Initiative on the Future of Nursing, at the IOM, with the purpose of producing a report that would make recommendations for an action-oriented blueprint for the future of nursing.
As part of its report, The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health, the committee considered many challenges that face the nursing education system and some of the solutions that will be required to advance the system. It determined that nurses should achieve higher levels of education and training through an improved education system that promotes seamless academic progression.
The ways in which nurses were educated during the 20th century are no longer adequate for dealing with the realities of health care in the 21st century. As patient needs and care environments have become more complex, nurses need to attain requisite competencies to deliver high-quality care. These competencies include leadership, health policy, system improvement, research and evidence-based practice, and teamwork and collaboration, as well as competency in specific content areas such as community and public health and geriatrics. Nurses also are being called upon to fill expanding roles and to master technological tools and information management systems while collaborating and coordinating care across teams of health professionals. To respond to these increasing demands, the IOM committee calls for nurses to achieve higher levels of education and suggests that they be educated in new ways that better prepare them to meet the needs of the population
In order to be better prepared to care for patients in the hospital, long term care, skilled nursing, or rehabilitation facilities nurses must achieve higher levels of education and must be educated in innovative ways that are relevant to the patient population in Tarrant, Johnson and Parker counties.
Did you know that Tarleton State University has a campus in Fort Worth that prepares Associate Degree RNs to receive their Baccalaureate (BSN) degrees? We offer full and part time options in a face to face setting on the Trinity River East Campus in downtown Fort Worth.
In addition, we will be offering RN-MSN classes this fall at our Fort Worth campus conveniently located on Camp Bowie. These classes will be offered face to face in a comfortable environment.
Tarleton State University offers low tuition rates and designs course offerings around working nurses. Students are able to finish their degrees in as little as one year in the RN-BSN program. Come check us out! We are the best kept secret in nursing education in Fort Worth!
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