IOM’s Clarion Call for Health Care Transformation: The Role of Nursing Science
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BRNspbrnBiol Res NursBiological Research For Nursing1099-80041552-4175SAGE PublicationsSage CA: Los Angeles, CA10.1177/109980041243974610.1177_1099800412439746IOM’s Clarion Call for Health Care TransformationThe Role of Nursing ScienceCashionAnn K.PhD, RN, FAAN1ZeimetzMariePhD21College of Nursing, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA2National Institute of Nursing Research/National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USAAnn K. Cashion, PhD, RN, FAAN, College of Nursing, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, 920 Madison, Suite 507, Memphis, TN 38163, USA Email: acashion@uthsc.edu42012142113114© SAGE Publications 20122012SAGE PublicationsAll the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come. – Hugo (1877)Leading Change: The Research ImperativeIn its data-driven, landmark study, The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) identified evidence-based nursing and nursing leadership as integral for the reinvention and reinvigoration of health care in the United States (Institute of Medicine [IOM], 2011). In this report, the IOM advanced recommendations relative to practice, policy, and education designed to bring about sweeping and sustainable improvements to our nation’s health care system. As importantly, the IOM report demonstrated that both scientific research and its translation are central to our national efforts to improve health care. Nursing science, the report states, “is key to providing better