The IOM Future of Nursing Report

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) report on the Future of Nursing was released on Tuesday, October 5. Tim Knettler, AANP CEO, Dr. Jan Towers, AANP Director of Federal Health Policy Gov. Affairs and Dr.Penny Kaye Jensen, AANP President were in attendance at the National Press Club in DC where the report was announced. The full report is nearly 600 pages and is available for download for free at http://www.nap.edu/catalog/12956.html

Click the links below for the press release and a link to a brief of the report.

Press Release: http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=12956

Brief of the report: http://www.iom.edu/~/media/Files/Report%20Files/2010/The-Future-of-Nursing/Future%20of%20Nursing%202010%20Report%20Brief%20v2.pdf

Photo of Dr.Penny Kaye Jensen and Dr. Donna Shalala, chair of the Committee on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative on the Future of Nursing, at the IOM