An ad hoc committee under the auspices of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will produce a consensus report that will chart a path for the nursing profession to help our nation create a Culture of Health, reduce health disparities, and improve the health and well-being of the U.S. population in the 21st century. The committee will consider newly emerging evidence related to the COVID-19 global pandemic and include recommendations regarding the role of nurses in responding to the crisis created by a pandemic.

The committee will also examine the lessons learned from the Future of Nursing Campaign for Action as well as the current state of science and technology to inform the assessment of the capacity of the profession to meet the anticipated health and social care demands from 2020 to 2030, with emphasis on multi-sector teams and partnerships.

In examining current and future challenges, the committee will take into account the dramatically changed context and the rapidly deployed changes in clinical care, nurse education, nursing leadership, and nursing-community partnerships as a result of the pandemic. The committee will consider the following:

• the role of nurses in improving the health of individuals, families, and communities by addressing social determinants of health and providing effective, efficient, equitable, and accessible care for all across the care continuum, as well identifying the system facilitators and barriers to achieving this goal.
• the current and future deployment of all levels of nurses across the care continuum, including in collaborative practice models, to address the challenges of building a culture of health.
• system facilitators and barriers to achieving a workforce that is diverse, including gender, race, and ethnicity, across all levels of nursing education.
• the role of the nursing profession in assuring that the voice of individuals, families and communities are incorporated into design and operations of clinical and community health systems.
• the training and competency-development skills needed to prepare nurses, including advanced practice nurses, to work outside of acute care settings and to lead efforts to build a culture of health and health equity, and the extent to which current curricula meets these needs.
• the ability of nurses to serve as change agents in creating systems that bridge the delivery of health care and social needs care in the community.
• the research needed to identify or develop effective nursing practices for eliminating gaps and disparities in health care.
• the importance of nurse well-being and resilience in ensuring the delivery of high quality care and improving community health.
• the role of nurses in response to emergencies that arise due to natural and man-made disasters and the impact on health equity.

In developing its recommendations for the future decade of nursing in the United States, the committee will draw from domestic and global examples of evidence-based models of care that address social determinants of health and help build and sustain a Culture of Health.