Running head: CHANGES IN NURSING 1 Changes in Nursing Name Institution CHANGES IN NURSING 2 Changes in Nursing The role of nurses is changing at an unprecedented rate. Notably, the scope of nursing is widening, and nurses are filling in many positions. This paper discusses the changes in nursing. The role of advanced practice nurses (APN) has evolved in the last decade, and their responsibilities have increased. For example, APNs can assess patients and formulate diagnoses that can help restore a sick person (Salmond & Echevarria, 2017). Besides, APNs are significant healthcare practitioners because they develop and implement treatment plans, order laboratory tests, and prescribe medications. As a result, APNs are prepared to provide full-scope primary services because physicians have a deficit. Therefore, nurses go for advanced degrees and obtain essential knowledge that has significantly transformed the healthcare system. They offer many services that complement the shortage of physicians and assistant physicians. Additionally, nurses should fill other roles that will improve the care for patients. For example, nurses should take up leadership positions and help their institutions develop policies and procedures to enhance patient outcomes. They should also advocate for their patients, who form a vast following. Further, nurses should take up the responsibilities of helping physicians regarding infection controls and other interventions that touch on manageable diseases. Therefore, nurses' skills can be used to transform the healthcare industry. There are different ways in which nurses can transform the health care industry. For example, nurses use technology to carry out many activities, such as linking them to physicians (Johnson & Johnson Nursing, 2014). As a result, nurses who use technology save time and money for their institutions while improving patients' health outcomes. Nurses are also transforming the health care industry through innovations because their ideas are essential in creating and establishing new devices for use (Thomas, Seifert, & Joyner, 2016). For example, CHANGES IN NURSING 3 nurses introduced the bar code scanner in the health care industry to ensure that the patients receive the right medication. Therefore, their innovations are used to minimize medical errors and improve patient outcomes. My state should take some significant milestones to ensure that the nurses become effective in transforming health care. For instance, the state should contribute to nursing teaching professions' changes by accepting more new courses, such as the ones dealing with the health care business. The state should also overhaul the bureaucracy that takes much of the nurses doing things that are not related to their professions. Therefore, this will transform the nursing profession. In conclusion, nursing has dramatically changed, and nurses are doing many things they could not do in the last ten years. For example, nurses diagnose patients and prescribe medication. As a result, nurses' new roles have transformed the health care industry. CHANGES IN NURSING 4 References Johnson & Johnson Nursing. (2014, November 14) Nurses: Their vital role in transforming healthcare [YouTube File]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_s05qFON5EA Salmond, S. W., & Echevarria, M. (2017). Healthcare transformation and changing roles for nursing. Orthopedic Nursing, 36(1), 12. DOI: 10.1097/NOR.0000000000000308 Thomas, T. W., Seifert, P. C., & Joyner, J. C. (2016). Registered nurses are leading to innovative changes. OJIN: The Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, 21(3). DOI: 10.3912/OJIN.Vol21No03Man03
