Safety
Definition
"Minimizes risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance."
KSAs
To review the proposed knowledge, skills and attitudes (KSAs) for nursing education on Safety, see the following pages:
Annotated Bibliography(ies)
For a list of resources on Safety, see the following page:
Related Teaching Strategies
Clinical settings
- Standardized Wristband Learning Activity
- Identifying Continued Use of Error Prone Abbreviations
- Clinical Evaluations Using KSA's:Developing Tools and Strategies
- Senior Nursing Student Capstone Clinical Integration Paper: Incorporating Quality and Safety Competencies
- Reformulating SBAR to "I-SBAR-R"
- Medication Reconciliation
- SBAR Memory Card Strategy
- Clinical Conference and the One Minute Safety Check
- Staff work-arounds assignment
- Website Evaluation Exercise
- Interdisciplinary CQI Course Syllabus (Graduate Level)
- Clinical Assessment Tool: Teaching strategy for safety and patient centered care
- Creating a Climate of Safety in the Clinical Setting
- Alarm Safety Learning Activity
- When Things Go Wrong Seminar Strategy
- Little Room of Errors
- The 60 Second Situational Assessment
- Reframing Constructive Criticism Using Reflection Based on QSEN Competencies
- Focusing on QSEN competencies during high-fidelity simulation The role of the observers
Skills or simulation laboratories
- Basic Pharmacology in Nursing Practice Competency Exam
- Advanced Pharmacology in Nursing Practice Competency Exam
- Pediatric Simulation and Unfolding Case Study
- Low-Fidelity Simulation: Care of the Post -CABG Patient
- Promoting Safety in an Unfolding Simulated Public Health Disaster
- Safe Patient Handling and Movement Curriculum
- Communication Picture Exercise
- OB Unfolding Case
- Reformulating SBAR to "I-SBAR-R"
- SBAR Memory Card Strategy
- A template for simulation scenario development that incorporates QSEN competencies
- Clinical Assessment Tool: Teaching strategy for safety and patient centered care
- Environmental Safety Learning Activity
- Developing A QSEN Competency Checklist for Simulation Experiences
- Mass Casualty Triage Bear Learning Activity
- Little Room of Errors
- The 60 Second Situational Assessment
- Integration of QSEN competencies when designing simulation scenarios
- Utilizing SBARR: Using Peer Reviewers in a Low-Fidelity Lab Exercise
- Integrating QSEN Competencies into a Capstone Simulation
Online or web-based modules
- Patient Safety Teaching Case - Hyperkalemia
- Interdisciplinary CQI Course Syllabus (Graduate Level)
- Patient Safety Teaching Case - Wrong Patient Procedure
- Exploring the Complexity of Advocacy: Balancing Patient-Centered Care and Safety
- Creating a Climate of Safety in the Clinical Setting
- Introduction to Quality and Safety in Nursing
Classroom
- Medication Variance Report: Authentic Assessment Exercise
- Peri-operative Nursing: An Unfolding Case Study
- Pancreatitis Unfolding Case
- Critiquing Nursing Research Articles: Safety Research
- Communication Picture Exercise
- Reformulating SBAR to "I-SBAR-R"
- Medication Reconciliation
- Patient Safety Teaching Case - Hyperkalemia
- Interprofessional Curriculum in Patient Safety and Quality Improvement
- Interdisciplinary CQI Course Syllabus (Graduate Level)
- Patient Safety Teaching Case - Wrong Patient Procedure
- Patient Teaching and Safety: Exploring Health Literacy
- Exploring the Complexity of Advocacy: Balancing Patient-Centered Care and Safety
- Introduction to Quality and Safety in Nursing
- Sentinel Event Analysis Learning Activity
- Quality and Safety Education for Nurses: An Introduction to the Competencies and the Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes