The Institute of Medicine Report (2011):
a. recommended that only physicians have the legal privilege to prescribe medications.
b. called for increasing the number of baccalaureate-prepared nurses in the workforce to 80% by 2020.
c. called for a minimum staffing ratio be in place in no later than 10 years.
d. called for nurse technicians to provide care during the nursing shortage.
ANS: B
Correct: The IOM report (2011) addresses the evolving complexities of the current health care system and a need for 80% of the nursing workforce to be baccalaureate prepared by 2020.
Incorrect:
a. The IOM report does not address prescribing only by physician.
c. Minimum staffing is not a recommendation of the IOM but was a recommendation in the state of California.
d. The need for nurse technicians or nurse extenders were not addressed, but the IOM report recommended the highest educational level for nurses.
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