Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN)

• The purpose of this assignment is to identify a problem in the clinical area and to utilize evidence-based strategies to improve the quality and safety of patient care.

• In 2008, a committee of healthcare experts proposed 6 competencies to ensure that nursing students develop the knowledge, skills and attitude (KSA) necessary to provide quality and safety patient care.

1. Patient-Centered Care
2. Teamwork and Collaboration
3. Evidence-Based Practice
4. Quality Improvement
5. Safety
6. Informatics
Assignment Criteria:

A. Identify an event that happened in the clinical area during practicum; discuss how this could have caused or did cause a negative patient outcome.

B. Develop a scenario to illustrate the problem. Patient’s identifiers are not to be used.

C. Discuss how each of the 6 QSEN competencies were or were not followed and ultimately caused, or could have caused a negative patient outcome.

D. Discuss the importance of integrating the QSEN competencies into the following areas; clinical practice, nursing education, and nursing research. Each point must be specifically addressed in a separate section.
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