QSEN Profile - Linda Kmetz

Linda Kmetz, RN, BSN, MN, PhD

Director
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center-Shadyside, School of Nursing
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Program Experience

ADN, Diploma, RN-BSN, BSN

QSEN Expertise

Curricular innovations: Developed structured clinical curriculum around KSA’s based on work sampling data.  High fidelity human simulation development incorporated Crew Resource Management and Crisis Team Training/Rapid Response Team for clinical courses across the curriculum. Faculty Development: Created and implemented reflective tools for personal and professional development (journaling, video playback of simulation and debriefing). Application of human factors analysis to create a culture of quality and safety.

Teaching and learning assessment strategies: Developed a process for testing due diligence to insure transparency and a just culture for students.

Competency Expertise

Teamwork and collaboration: integration of Crew Resource Management principles.

Safety: adoption of Team STEPPS curriculum.

Quality Improvement: TCAB quality improvement tools and methods

Teaching Expertise

Classroom

Research Expertise

“Applying Principles of Lean to Nursing Education:  Identifying and Analyzing Sources of Waste via TCAB (Transforming Care at the Bedside) Work Sampling.”  Deborah Struth, MSN, RN, Principal Investigator.

“Evaluation of Clinical Nursing Education: Discovering Opportunity for Redesign using Work Sampling Methodology” Cheryl Carr, RN, MSN, Principal Investigator.

Publications and Presentations

“Creating a Safer Care Environment by Creating a Safer Graduate Nurse” First Author: Deborah Struth, RN, MSN, Associate Director of Quality Improvement, UPMC Shadyside School of Nursing, accepted for publication, American Journal of Nursing (AJN2808R1).

Related Funding

$203,000 from the DSF Foundation to establish a Human Simulation Lab at UPMC Shadyside School of Nursing, 2008.