Six competencies were developed in Phase I (QSEN, 2012):
1. Patient-centered care: The patient has control of and is a full
partner in the provision of holistic, compassionate, and
comprehensive care based on the patient’s values, needs, and
preferences.
2. Teamwork and collaboration: Nurses and other health
professionals must collaborate effectively with open
communication, respect, and mutual decision making to achieve
quality care.
3. Evidence-based practice: Current evidence must be integrated
to support clinical expertise in providing optimal health care.
4. Quality improvement: Measure data and monitor patient
outcomes to develop changes in methods so as to continuously
improve the quality and safety in healthcare delivery.
5. Informatics: Use information technology to effectively
communicate, manage knowledge, eliminate error, and support
collaborative decision making.
6. Safety: Minimize the risk of harm to patients and healthcare
providers through self- and system evaluation.
QSEN competencies for graduate education. Expert consultants
and stake-holders achieved four primary goals (QSEN, 2012):
1. Develop a consensus on the competencies in quality and
safety that must be mastered in a graduate nursing program.
, 2. Create learning resources and interactive materials to help
prepare graduate students to deliver quality and safe care.
3. Host workshops to train faculty to facilitate implementation of
competencies into curriculum.
4. Develop an online collaborative of education materials for use
by graduate-level faculty and clinical partners.
four key messages were developed by a multidisciplinary
committee whose membership represented a variety of
healthcare professionals, educators, researchers, policymakers,
consumers, advocacy groups, and healthcare institutions
(IOM, 2011):
1. Nurses should practice to the full extent of their education and
training.
2. Nurses should achieve higher levels of education and training.
3. Nurses should be full partners with health professionals in
redesigning health care.
4. Effective workforce planning and policy making require
better data collection.
barriers to teaching
are defined as those factors that impede the nurse's ability to
deliver educational services.
Obstacles to learning
those factors that negatively affect the ability of the learner to
pay attention to and process information.
Factors Affecting the Ability to Teach