Nursing Outlook
Volume 55, Issue 3 , Pages 151-155, May 2007

Quality and safety curricula in nursing education: Matching practice realities

  • Gwen Sherwood, PhD, RN, FAAN

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    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Gwen Sherwood, PhD, RN, FAAN, Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Nursing, Carrington Hall CB#7460, Chapel Hill, NC 27527.
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  • Karen Drenkard, PhD, RN, CNAA

Health care delivery settings are redesigning in the wake of staggering reports of severe quality and safety issues. Sweeping changes underway in health care to address quality and safety outcomes lend urgency to the call to transform nursing curricula so new graduate competencies more closely match practice needs. Emerging views of quality and safety and related competencies as applied in practice have corresponding implications for the redesign of nursing education programs. Nurse executives and nurse educators are called to address the need for faculty development through strategic partnerships.

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PII: S0029-6554(07)00061-9

doi:10.1016/j.outlook.2007.02.004

Nursing Outlook
Volume 55, Issue 3 , Pages 151-155, May 2007

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