Quality and Safety Mission
National Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) project Mission:
“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.”
Our Mission:
QSENIZE the curriculum
Consistency of the QSEN with our Mission:
The QSEN initiative is consistent with School of Nursing professional level competency in the following eight strategies: safe, quality compensatory practice; teaching and counseling, ethical decision-making, leadership, effective communication, collaboration, critical application of research/evidence, and policy development. Our goal is to integrate the concepts of quality and safety as a lens to view nursing education not as ‘additional courses’.
Aims
1) Develop Faculty
· Develop faculty expertise to implement contemporary quality and safety education in all types/levels of nursing programs (BSN to PHD)
· Increase use and application of standardized language related to quality and safety
· Increase use of resources and reference from National quality and safety organizations
2) Transform Student Learning
· Plan and integrate QSEN concepts (6) throughout the curriculum (BSN→PhD)
· Implement innovative teaching strategies (Simulation, web- casts)
3) Collaborate with clinical partners and share resources
(interprofessional-interinstitutional)
· Increase communication of QSEN information (newsletter, website, resource center, drop-in meetings, blog)
· Expand clinical partnerships with quality and safety focus (use of clinical experts for lectures, use clinical experts for student projects and experiences)
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