Topic: Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN)
Description:
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. For more information about the QSEN, go to https://www.qsen.org/ksas_prelicensure.php
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
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. Topic for scenario: One day post ankle surgery patient fell during change of shift in the orthopedic nursing unit.
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.
Instructions for Formatting and Submitting the Assignment:
Utilize a minimum of 5 evidence base practice articles from peer reviewed journals no older than 5 years.
The paper is 6 pages not including the cover and the reference pages.
APA (6th ed.) format is required with no grammar, spelling, and punctuation errors.
Before the final submission to Blackboard, please post the paper to Turnitin.com and review the report. Similarity index is to be <15%.