2012 QSEN National Forum

Leadership, Improvement and Healthcare Systems: Implications for Professional Education in the 21st Century

G. ROSS BAKER is a professor in the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto where he teaches and carries out research on patient safety, quality improvement strategies and leadership and organizational change. He is the author of the 2008 book, High Performing Healthcare Systems: Quality By Design, that analyzes leadership and organizational strategies in seven health care systems that have been successful in using improvement tools and knowledge to transform outcomes. Dr. Baker co-chaired a working group on methods and measures for patient safety for the World Health Organization from 2006 to 2010 and recently chaired an Advisory Panel on Avoidable Hospitalizations for the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care whose report was released by the Ministry in November 2011.

QSEN from the Beginning: The What and Why of Quality and Safety Competencies

Gwen Sherwood, PhD, RN, FAAN, Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, UNC-Chapel Hill School of Nursing

If you want a refresher on QSEN basics before attending concurrent sessions where speakers will assume this background, you are invited to this session.  Dr. Sherwood, co-investigator of QSEN during each of its phases, will review the rationale for developing QSEN competencies and some of the initial curricular/teaching strategies that emerged in the work of faculty in the QSEN Pilot School Collaborative.

QSEN Basics:  Using Simulation to Develop QSEN Competencies

Carol Fowler Durham, EdD, RN, ANEF, Clinical Professor and Director, Education-Innovation-Simulation Learning Environment, UNC-Chapel Hill School of Nursing

If you are thinking about introducing QSEN competency development using low- and hi-fidelity simulations, but your experience to date is limited, we invite you to this session.  Dr. Durham has been the QSEN faculty simulation expert since QSEN began, and she will cover beginning strategies for how to integrate QSEN competencies into simulated experiences.

Quality is Our Daily Business: Developing Essential Quality & Safety Competencies for New RNs & APRNs in Primary Care

Margaret Flinter, APRN, PHD, Sr. Vice President and Clinical Director of the Community Health Center, Inc.

Margaret. Flinter is the Sr. Vice President and Clinical Director of the Community Health Center, Inc., a world-class primary care organization focused on special populations, improving health outcomes, and building healthy communities across Connecticut. She has co-led the growth of this organization for over thirty years, as it transformed from a single storefront clinic to one of the premier primary care organizations in the country, with other 130,000 patients and Level 3 recognition by the NCQA across all sites. Margaret is board certified as a family nurse practitioner and has combined administrative, executive, and clinical leadership in her work at CHC.

Just Cultures in Schools of Nursing

Jane Barnsteiner, PhD, RN, FAAN, Professor of Pediatric Nursing, University of Pennsylvania

Joanne Disch, PhD, RN, FAAN, Clinical Professor & Director, Katharine J. Densford International Center for Nursing Leadership, University of Minnesota

This presentation will review what is known about the extent and type of errors/near-misses committed by nursing students and present the rationale for instituting systems and structures that allow for trending and analysis of student errors/near-misses. It will also hightlight a national study being launched to (1) collect and analyze information on current practices and policies for reporting and trending errors/near-misses by pre-licensure nursing students; and (2) create a national data repository for capturing information on these errors and near-misses.