Importance of Nursing Initiatives

Importance of Nursing Initiatives

Introduction

In the paper, the nursing initiative and their relationship to the image has been discussed in which nursing for a healthier tomorrow, institute of Medicine's Quality series reports and the future of nursing with respect to leading change and advancing healthy activities have been discussed. The strategies impacting image of the professional generational issues have also been discussed in the paper with respect to the power and empowerment for changing the White face of nursing and professional presentation has been discussed.

Nursing Initiatives and its Relationship with Image

Nursing for a Healthier Tomorrow

“Nurses for a Healthier Tomorrow” is the partnership of 42 healthcare and nursing organizations working together in order to develop a campaign for communicating and attracting individuals towards the profession of nursing. The main objective of campaign is to highlight the shortage of nurses from the viewpoint of faculty staff. The school of nursing is not able to give admissions to large number of students due to the small number of nursing staff at the nursing schools. The very first campaign of the Nurses for Healthier Tomorrow (NHT) is called the “Nursing. It's Real. It's Life”. The main focus of the campaign was on the people to join nursing as their profession. The campaign that was carried out in the year 2004 as “Nursing education.. pass it on” was based on the number of advertisements aimed at attracting nurses towards the teaching staff (Cohen, 2007).

The Institute of Medicine's Quality Series reports

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) started publishing number of reports taking into account safety and quality issues of care and healthcare system of the United States. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) has been publishing reports on nursing and the quality of the healthcare system. These reports have been focused on the working environment of the nurses and the nursing professional. These reports also emphasized the role of nurses in the nursing environment and their responsibility of spending more time with the patients than any other healthcare professional in the healthcare industry. The other reports that are presented by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) do not include a particular group of healthcare professionals. By highlighting the role of nurses in an appropriate manner and including the recommendations on how the working environment can be made more helpful and effective in the nursing care, these reports have taken important step in illustrating positive ...