I truly like and agree with all categories of the QSEN’s graduate competencies for the nursing profession, taking the profession to the next level while preparing graduate nurses to be competent in the role of a nurse practitioner defined by the American Association of Practitioners. According to the American Association of Practitioners (2017) “Nurse practitioners assess, diagnose, treat, and manage acute episodic and chronic illnesses. NPs are experts in health promotion and disease prevention. They order, conduct, supervise, and interpret diagnostic and laboratory tests, prescribe pharmacological agents and non-pharmacologic therapies, as well as teach and counsel patients, among other services. As licensed, independent clinicians, …show more content…
The QSEN’s primary goal is to prepare graduate nurses to improve the overall safety and overall quality of their work place by targeting for the knowledge, skills, and attitude of the graduate nurses. Each category has an aspect I found interesting or essential for any nurse practitioner graduate to be successful, improve safety and provide quality of care.
Patient-Centered Care: The value of seeing through the patient’s eyes is a great representation on how nurse practitioners should address all aspects of patient care, by understanding the patient values, preferences and expressed needs; sometimes I feel this is lost in health care.
Teamwork and Collaboration: The first aspect of this category I found essential for team work is; knowing my own limitations and strengths as a team member. In addition, observe limitations and strengths of other team members, always devise a plan to develop relationships, improve care and the most important aspect, team work is essential for
Nursing, as a crucial part of the health care system, keeps evolving while dealing with an increasingly complex clinical situation that involves quality of patient care. Therefore, to successfully handle these scenarios, nursing needs to become more advanced, clinically and academically. A DNP degree is needed in this situation because according to Dunbar- Jacob, Navito & Khalil (2013), a DNP degree is considered to have more impact on nursing than a Master’s or Bachelor’s degree due to the advanced clinical education a DNP provides (p. 425). Hence, the DNP degree has an enormous impact in nursing practice especially in terms of improving clinical care, promoting leadership roles, and improving educational status.
The QSEN initiative is the progression of quality and safety of education for nurses that began in 2005 and has been continued over the past eight years. It is a multi-phase process that shows current and future nurses how to apply knowledge, skills, and attitudes to their everyday nursing activities(QSEN, 2013, 1). Nurses and student nurses can use their knowledge, skills and attitudes to help prevent never events such as hospital acquired conditions. Never events are medical errors that could have been serious and preventable. They could have been caused by poor communication, lack of proper nursing skills, or simply just negligence. QSEN can also be used to improve nursing outcomes for everyone involved in the healthcare field.
“The overall goal for the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) project is to
Nurses are key components in health care. Their role in today’s healthcare system goes beyond bedside care, making them the last line of defense to prevent negative patient outcomes (Sherwood & Zomorodi, 2014). As part of the interdisciplinary team, nurses have the responsibility to provide the safest care while maintaining quality. In order to meet this two healthcare system demands, the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) project defined six competencies to be used as a framework for future and current nurses (Sherwood & Zomorodi, 2014). These competencies cover all areas of nursing practice: patient-centered care, teamwork and collaboration, evidence-based practice, quality
Nursing is a discipline in change. As the intricacy and acuity of patients expand, nurses are taking an ever-expanding role in health care management and patient outcomes. As nursing has advanced so has the curricular structure of nursing education. The current focus on nursing education needs to meet the curricular standards developed by the national accrediting agencies such as the American Accreditation Colleges of Nursing (AACN). Learning methods used in nursing education need to support the evolution of nursing skills needed for continuous safety and quality improvement in practice. QSEN reflective journaling has been shown to assist nursing students in developing these important skills. The integration of the QSEN standards in nursing
Theisen, J. L., & Sandau, K. E. (2013). Competency of new graduate nurses: A review of their weaknesses and strategies for success. Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, 44(9), 406. doi:10.3928/00220124-20130617-38
Nursing provides the best quality of care by exercising six models formulated by QSEN: patient-centered care, teamwork, and collaboration, evidence base practice, quality improvement, safety and informatics (Competencies, n.d.). Following the competencies set forth by QSEN decreases errors and gives patients the care they desire and
As a nurse we are responsible for the safety and overall health promotion of our patients. Competency in the nursing field is what ensures patient safety and decreased hospital acquired injury. Continued competence ensures that the nurse is able to perform efficiently and safely in a constantly changing environment. Nurses must continuously evaluate their level of skill and find where improvement needs to be made in order to keep up to date with the expected skill level set by their
In 1990 a group of educators, called the National Task Force for Family Nurse Practitioner Curriculum and Evaluation, created the initial curriculum guidelines for nurse practitioners (Graduate nurse practitioners education competencies, n.d.).Today, the NONPF represents most NP educational institutions worldwide and they continue to develop/improve the NP competencies and guidelines in order to prepare healthcare professionals across the world (Graduate nurse practitioners education competencies,
Patient-centered care recognizes the patient or designee as the source of control and full partner in
This essay will explain what patient centred care is, how nurses use it in practice, the benefits of using it, and the barriers that need to be overcome to be able to use it, and the key principles of patient centred care. It will explain how patient centred care enables nurses to communicate and engage with the patients in a more effective way, and how it helps understand the uniqueness of each patient, which helps professionals avoid ‘warehousing’ patients (treating them all the same). It will also demonstrate how this type of care can help maintain the dignity of patients when nurses carry out tasks such as personal care. The Health Foundation describes patient centred care as being a type of health system where patients take control of their own care.
Patient centered care is defined as “caring for the patient using a holistic care approach considering each client’s personal preferences, values, family situations, religious and cultural traditions, involving clients in their decision making”(Hood,2018,p.384)
The American Nurses Association defines nursing as, “The protection, promotion and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, facilitation of healing, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations.” In other words, nurses protect and promote the health of patients by taking care of not only the illness but by advocating for both the individual and their families. Nurses not only administer medicine, perform physical exams and conduct research, but they interpret patient information and act as a liaison between the doctor and the patient. Nurses provide health promotion and counseling. Nurses
The overall goal for the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) plan is to meet the challenge of educating and preparing future nurses to have the knowledge, skills and attitudes that are essential to frequently progress the quality and safety of the healthcare systems in the continuous improvement of safe practice (QSEN, 2014).Safety reduces the possibility of injury to patients and nurses. It is achieved through system efficiency and individual work performance. Organizations determine which technologies have an effective protocol with efficient practices to support quality and safety care. Guidelines are followed to reduce potential risks of harm to nurses or others. Appropriate policies
It includes listening to, informing and involving patients in their care. Involve patients in decision-making, recognizing they are individuals with their own unique values and preferences. Treat patients with dignity, respect, and sensitivity to his/her cultural values and autonomy. While patients vary in their desire to be involved in their healthcare, all too often, patients feel excluded from discussions and decisions that affect them and the healthcare that they receive. Therefore, patients may find their healthcare to be not only impersonal, but they are often left confused and unsure as to what they need to do in regard to participation in their care. Per what I have learned in class and work, patient centered care expands to coordination and integration of care, information and education, emotional support, involvement of family and supporters, continuity of care and transition and access to care. When it comes to workers, as I mentioned earlier, by providing support to the staff, listening to them, their concerns, setting attainable goals with ample time to work on improvements and make adjustments to achieve quality at every level. Leadership also need to ensure that staff is properly trained and meets the required competencies to provide care for patients/residents and support their