2012 QSEN National Forum

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

G. ROSS BAKER, PhD, 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.

Building the Foundation for Quality and Safety in Practice: Translation of QSEN Competencies to the Practice Setting

Kathleen Bradley, DNPc, RN, NEA-BC, Director of Performance, Practice and Innovation, Magnet Program Director, Porter Adventist Hospital, Denver, CO, Centura Health

Lavone Hastings, M.Mgt., BSN, RN-BC, Manager of Professional Development, Porter Adventist Hospital, Denver, CO, Centura Health

Scott Barber, MS, RN, RN Educator, Littleton Adventist Hospital, Littleton, CO, Centura Health

Vanessa Gardner, MS, RN-BC, Clinical Manager of Medical Telemetry, Porter Adventist Hospital, Denver, CO, Centura Health

This interactive session incorporates a panel presentation along with a case study application activity translating QSEN into a continuum of professional nursing practice. The presentation focuses on four exemplars; standardized RN job description, nursing orientation, RN New Grad Residency and front-line leadership program. Integrating and translating QSEN into performance expectations, competencies and outcomes within a hospital system facilitates rapid change, improved performance and growth of professional practice.

QSEN: Innovation to Transformation

Linda Cronenwett, PhD, RN, FAAN, Beerstecher-Blackwell Term Professor, UNC-Chapel Hill School of Nursing, Principal Investigator, Quality and Safety Education for Nurses,
UNC-Chapel Hill School of Nursing, Chapel Hill, NC

Dr. Cronenwett will update the markers of transformation in professional formation and development that have occurred as QSEN finishes its seventh year of activity. She will also describe plans for transitions in leadership of the QSEN website and QSEN Forum.

QSEN: Growing Up

Mary Dolansky, RN, PhD, BSN, MSN, Assistant Professor, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH

Dr. Dolansky will describe future directions for QSEN with an emphasis on how QSEN can help participants reach their goals to enhance quality and safety in nursing education.

QSEN: Transitions and Transformation

QSEN Teams – Past, Present, and Future

Join us in celebrating the many people who have led QSEN during seven years of funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and, most importantly, the new leaders to whom we will collectively pledge our gratitude and support.

Quality and Safety in Nursing: A Competency Approach to Improving Outcomes

The long awaited textbook entitled Quality and Safety in Nursing: A Competency Approach to Improving Outcomes, edited by Gwen Sherwood, PhD, RN, FAAN, and Jane Barnsteiner, PhD, RN, FAAN, will be available for purchase during the conference. Many of the QSEN Advisory Board and Expert Panel members are contributors and will be present to sign their chapters at an author signing during our conference. you won't want to miss this one-of-a-kind edition on quality and safety in nursing!

As a special bonus for QSEN National Forum attendees, the publisher is offering the book at a 15% discount. Only a limited number of books will be available on-site at the conference, so feel free to order directly from the publisher using the link below and bring your copy to the author signing. Be sure to use discount code "AFF15" when making your purchase.