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What is QSEN?
Quality and Safety Education for Nurses
The National QSEN project (funded by the RWJF) address the challenge of preparing
future nurses who will have the knowledge, skills and attitudes (KSAs) necessary to
continuously improve the quality and safety of the healthcare systems within which they
work.
The long-range goal of QSEN is to reshape professional identity formation in nursing to
include commitment to quality and safety competencies recommended by the Institute
of Medicine (IOM).
QSEN initiatives:
1) Defined quality and safety competencies for nursing and proposed targets for the knowledge, skills, and attitudes
to be developed in nursing pre-licensure programs for each competency: patient-centered care, teamwork and
collaboration, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, safety, and informatics.
2) They also completed a national survey of baccalaureate program leaders and a state survey of associate degree
educators to assess beliefs about the extent to which the competencies are included in current curricula, the level of
satisfaction with student competency achievement, and the level of faculty expertise in teaching the competencie.
3) QSEN partnered with representatives of organizations that represent advanced practice nurses and drafted (in
press) proposed knowledge, skills, and attitude targets for graduate education.
4) Funded work with 15 pilot schools who committed to active engagement in curricular change to incorporate
quality and safety competencies.
Where can I learn more about the QSEN project?
www.QSEN.org
The web site is a comprehensive resource for quality and safety education for nurses.
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RESOURCE HIGHLIGHT
Over the Winter break, be sure to take a look at these great QSEN resources.
~Instant Inspiration for your project proposal~
I. Teaching strategies posted on the QSEN website.
www.QSEN.org
II. Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) IHI Open School for Health Professions.
www.ihi.org/OpenSchool or contact at OpenSchool@ihi.org
The purpose of this website is to teach patient safety and quality improvement skills to
the next generation of health care professionals.
The curriculum of online courses is designed to help students develop competencies at
beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels ****Offers certification
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Patient Centered Care
QSEN
February Theme
Definition: Recognize the patient or designee as the source of control and full partner in providing compassionate
and coordinated care based on respect for patient’s preferences, values, and needs.
http://qsen.org/competencydomains/patient-centered-care/
REFLECTION:
How prepared are our new grads to successfully listen, invite and incorporate the patient and
family into care? Do they consider the patient and families concerns, inputs and desires?
FEATURED RESOURCS:
Creative Healthcare Management: Relationship-based Care
Mission is to have all patients and their families experience the healing and caring that result from the
organizational transformation grounded in Creative Health Care Management´s Relationship-Based Care Model
and I2E2 (Inspiration, Infrastructure, Education and Evidence) Implementation.
http://www.chcm.com/index.htm
Culture Clues - University of Washington Medical Center
Culture Clues™ are tip sheets for clinicians, designed to increase awareness about concepts and
preferences of patients from diverse cultures.
http://depts.washington.edu/pfes/CultureClues.htm
Blue Bag: Patient Centered Care
Feb. 16 11 am to 12 noon 2280
*this will be videotaped and posted on the blackboard
Blackboard Presentation
Posting Feb. 27 (T/L excellence- QSEN)
Patient-Centered Care at the End of Life
(Dr. Mary Jo Prince-Paul)
www.QSEN.org
Together, we can QSENize FPB Nursing
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