QSEN Profile - Paula Jarzemsky

Paula Jarzemsky, MS, RN

Clinical Professor
University of Wisconsin - Madison, School of Nursing
Madison, WI

Program Experience

BSN

QSEN Expertise

At WI, we created a partnership with our academic medical center, which brought together clinician-faculty partners in order to generate QSEN teaching strategies in clinical settings. Specific outcomes included implementation of a patient safety scan across all clinical sections and several unit-specific projects related to quality initiatives.  In classroom settings, an informatics competency assessment for first-year nursing students and online tutorial about information literacy in nursing were implemented. I also developed a template for developing simulation scenarios that incorporated QSEN competencies.

Competency Expertise

Informatics

Safety

Patient-centered care

Teaching Expertise

Primarily Skills/Simulation Lab and Clinical. I also developed 2 guest lectures on nursing informatics for first and second-year didactic courses.

Research Expertise

I surveyed first-year nursing students about their informatics competencies and preferences among information sources, then incorporated their responses in a lecture presentation.

Publications and Presentations

3 teaching strategies on the QSEN website:

Assessment of Informatics Competencies – Nursing Students

Information Literacy in Nursing

Clinical Assessment Tool Scan

Recently submitted and in review :

A Template for Simulation Scenario Development that Incorporates QSEN Competencies.

Informatics for Nursing Students: Assessment and Action (manuscript for JNE)

Related Funding

None