Using the Institute of Medicine (2003) competencies for nursing, QSEN faculty have defined pre-licensure and graduate quality and safety competencies for nursing and proposed targets for the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to be developed in nursing pre-licensure programs for each competency.

• Patient-Centered Care

• Teamwork & Collaboration

• Evidence-Based Practice

• Quality Improvement

• Safety

• Informatics

 

Led by a national advisory board and distinguished faculty, QSEN pursues strategies to build will and develop effective teaching approaches to assure that future graduates develop competencies in patient-centered care, teamwork and collaboration, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, safety, and informatics.

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Acknowledgments

 

The QSEN Institute gratefully acknowledges the following QSEN faculty and Advisory Board members for their contributions to the development of the competency definitions and KSAs:

• Paul Batalden, MD, (Dartmouth)

• Geraldine Bednash, PhD, RN, FAAN, (American Association of Colleges of Nursing)

• Jean Blackwell, MLS (UNC-Chapel Hill)

• Linda Cronenwett, PhD, RN, FAAN (UNC Chapel Hill)

• Lisa Day, PhD, RN (UC-San Francisco)

• Karen Drenkard, PhD, RN, CNAA, (Inova Health System)

• Carol Durham, EdD(c), MSN, RN, (UNC-Chapel Hill)

• Leslie Hall, MD (U Missouri-Columbia)

• Pamela Ironside, PhD, RN, FAAN, (Indiana University)

• Jean Johnson, PhD, RN, FAAN (George Washington University)

• Mary (Polly) Johnson, MSN, RN, FAAN (NC Board of Nursing)

• Maryjoan Ladden, PhD, RN, (Harvard)

• Shirley Moore, PhD, RN, FAAN, (Case Western Reserve University)

• Audrey Nelson, PhD, RN, FAAN (Veterans Administration-Tampa)

• Gwen Sherwood, PhD, RN, FAAN (UNC Chapel Hill)

• Elaine Smith, EdD(c), MBA, MSN, RN, CNAA (UNC-Chapel Hill)

• M. Elaine Tagliareni, EdD, RN (Community College of Philadelphia)

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