The Future Of Nursing: Goals For The Future

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This paper will review the historic and current field of nursing and look at goals for its future. It will examine a vision document created in 2002 by a diverse group of nursing associations which outlines an ideal of what the future of nursing should look like as well as the areas that need to be focused on in order to achieve this ideal state. This document will also be used in the examination of the current nursing issue of bullying among nurses. To begin the author will discuss what nursing has looked like throughout history.
Then and Now Today, nursing is regarded in a much different light than in years gone by. That is because the role of the nurse has changed but also because the world has changed and thereby so has its perception …show more content…

Together they agreed upon a concise vision statement and identified ten specific domains which were targeted as areas for improvement. Each domain is presented with a goal and several strategies that could be implemented to meet that goal. Here follows the ten domains, their goal, and an example strategy for each.
• Leadership and Planning: It is critical to have a unified leadership structure that strategically guides the direction of nursing. To do this some nurses must step beyond patient care and up to positions of power and influence in representation of the field among healthcare decision …show more content…

If a nurse is being bullied at work they will not feel safe. This problem is critical as it extends beyond the well-being of the nurse and into the functioning of the unit they work within as well as into the quality of care provided to the patient. As identified in Nursing’s Agenda for the Future (2002) there are multiple strategies which could be used to end bullying and ensure a safe work environment for all nurses. An approach which combines many of them would be for nurses to be involved in determining how bullying is dealt with and prevented on a national level. They need to work together to ensure that employers support the pursuit to end bullying and will enforce any policies that are developed. As part of prevention all nurses must be able to easily access professional development so that there is no issues between veteran and new nurses in regards to what they have learned. Likewise, veteran nurses who foster relationships with and the training of new nurses should be acknowledged and compensated for sharing their knowledge. Finally, education about the issue of bullying must highlight patient care as the center of the issue and illustrate how a bad working relationship between two nurses can be dangerous to the

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