QSEN Competencies And Inter-professional Collaboration

The goal of the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) project is to promote the knowledge, skills and attitudes (KSAs) necessary for nurses to raise the level of quality and safety in healthcare.

• Review the following six QSEN Competencies, then choose one and discuss how the chosen competency was implemented in your practice site and how it influenced nursing practice.
  1. Evidence-based Practice (EBP)

• Briefly describe a clinical experience you had in which inter-professional collaboration resulted in an improved patient outcome. How did this situation affect your KSAs about the competency of teamwork and collaboration? Clinical experience you have to write about is ” Infection Control”

• QSEN Institute. (n.d.). QSEN competencies. Retrieved from http://qsen.org/competencies/pre-licensure-ksas/
• Altmiller, G. (n.d.). Quality and safety education for nurses: An introduction to the competencies and the knowledge, skills, and attitudes [PowerPoint presentation]. Retrieved from http://qsen.org/wp-content/uploads/formidable/110.NUR307-QSEN-KSA-Introduction.pdf

Watch the following

• QSEN Institute. (2010, April 15). QSEN informational video, part 1 . Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnksQO7oi_Q

• QSEN Institute. (2010, April 18). QSEN informational video, part 2 . Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-LzIlm2b2U