Step 1 Post your response to the discussion board.

Address the following topics in your discussion post:

• Select a report from the IOM website.
• Summarize the IOM report you selected.
• Describe the impact this report has had on the nursing profession.
• Explain how it will impact quality for consumers.
• Include a reference list citing any sources used, written in APA format.

Step 2 Read other students’ posts and respond to at least two of them by Friday at 11:59pm Mountain Time.

Use your personal experience, if it’s relevant, to support or debate other students’ posts. Address the following topics in your responses:

• Consider the reports chosen by other students and their impact on the nursing profession.
• Share whether you agree or disagree on how the report impacts quality for consumers and explain why.
• If differences of opinion occur, debate the issues professionally and provide examples to support your opinions.
  

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Peer Discussion (Sarah)

In the article, Poor Education Predicts Poor Health- A Challenge Unmet by American Medicine, Richard Johnston (2019) explains the connection between a persons education quality and quality of health. Although many Americans “are just fine”, there are too many Americans that lack the basic skills to ensure a life that includes steady employment, health and wellness, social stability, and overall well-being. Furthermore, this article explores the depressingly low health statistics within the United States despite the U.S. spending more on health care than any other country. One alarming statistic that was highlighted was that children born in the U.S. are 57% more likely to die before adulthood than children who are born in 19 other wealthy countries (Johnston, 2019). This leads one to question if there is a connection between education and health? More specifically, Johnston (2019) explains that better educational opportunities are statistically linked to better over-all health and better educated adults tend to live longer, healthier lives than their peers who are less educated. The social class divide and can be seen in a myriad of ways including one’s diet, use of substances such as drugs, alcohol, and smoking, physical exercise, financial burdens and freedoms, social support, and personal stressors such as housing and transportation. Additionally, education not only improves one’s knowledge, but it also improves reasoning skills, social skills, and the ability to understand the science behind choices one makes that include a healthy lifestyle and how to achieve it (Johnston, 2019). According to Johnston (2019) “getting an education can prevent disease. Inadequate education is a fundamental driver of deficiencies in other social determinants of health. It is a realistic target for improvement that offers an individual a path out of poverty and ill health; and coincidentally, it offers the nation a stronger workforce, a more stable economy, and more intelligent participants in its democracy” (p. 5). NUR 435 Denver School of Nursing Week 10 Migrant Health in Vietnam Discussion

As nurses, this report sheds light on the absolute importance of community outreach and finding the populations within our communities, states, and country that have social determinants of health that affect their access to quality education and health care. These communities need us, as nurses and health care providers, to reach them where they are at; go into the schools, community centers, and more to offer health education that includes nutrition, health and wellness, sexual health and safety, preventative screenings, vaccines, social support, hygiene, and more. Furthermore, this sheds light on areas where we, as nurses, can use our voice to create change in policies both in education and health care. By using our voices, platform, and presence in the community we can impact the educational and health care quality provided to the “consumers” within our communities. Although social determinants of health are challenging, knowledge and education is powerful. The more we can teach and provide to the people we hope to serve, the better suited they will be improve their health and overall well-being, and they can teach their children and so forth.

References

Johnston, R. (2019). Poor education predicts poor health—a challenge unmet by american medicine. National Academy of Medicine. Retrieved from https://nam.edu/poor-education-predicts-poor-health-a-challenge-unmet-by-american-medicine/

Peer Discussion (Patricia)

The report I chose was The Next Decade of Nursing: NAM Town Halls Explore How New Roles, New Tech, and Social Needs Are Transforming the Field (Micelli, 2019). This article discusses the expansion in the field of nursing from the traditional clinical role to “health system leadership, clinical research, and digital health” (Micelli, 2019, p. 2).

The impact of this report is that it stresses the importance of education of future nurses in public health as well as clinical nursing. Nurses should be lifelong learners and the expansion of nursing roles into research and community health is vital (Micelli, 2019). Because of their position on the front lines of care, nurses have a critical role to play in the change needed in nursing, especially the outcomes of social determinants and health disparities (Micelli, 2019).

Changes in the education provided during and continuing after nursing school, resulting in more nurses practicing to the highest level of their education, will impact healthcare through the removal of disparities and inequities, and will be felt across the nation in areas such as the health of “migrant workers, firearm violence prevention, and the heart health of formerly incarcerated black men” (Micelli, 2019, para. 9).

These changes in education of nurses will allow for any nurse to find their niche. Not all nurses desire to remain in bedside or clinical nursing, especially older nurses, and they can find a very rewarding career in another area such as public or community health, informatics, or nursing education. Every nurse has a different reason for choosing nursing as a career and “We have to always remember why we got into this and give people equal opportunity to act on their ‘why’” (Micelli, 2019, para. 16). NUR 435 Denver School of Nursing Week 10 Migrant Health in Vietnam Discussion

References

Micelli, S. (2019, August 27). The next decade of nursing: NAM Town Halls explore how new roles, new tech, and social needs are transforming the field. National Academy of Medicine. https://nam.edu/the-next-decade-of-nursing-nam-tow…