Emerging Roles and Model of Care: How to Affect Change at the Bedside (1 Hour)

The class titled, "Emerging Roles and Model of Care: How to Affect Change at the Bedside". The goals for this course were to "Describe importance of matching nursing practice and skills to future needs, not past demands, describe implications for graduate education, and explain the Campaign for Action." This course talked about current issues and trends in healthcare. As nurse leaders, we need to be educated on current events in healthcare so we can be leaders as we get involved and influence change. The healthcare reform is focused on three things, reducing cost, increasing quality and improving safety. This course gave great advice on how to become involved in influencing healthcare policy. There are many organizations that nurses can join that offer resources to become involved in healthcare policy. This course also encouraged nurses to seek higher and advanced degrees. There is a need for more nurses with advanced degrees in the healthcare system. These nurses are needed to replace the current leaders that will eventually retire and leave the workforce. This course was a good broad course that really covered current trends that all nurses need to be informed about.