Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) addresses the challenge of preparing nurses with the competencies necessary to continuously
improve the quality and safety of the health care systems in which they work. The
QSEN faculty members adapted the Institute of Medicine1 competencies for nursing (patient-centered care, teamwork and collaboration, evidence-based
practice, quality improvement, safety, and informatics), proposing definitions that
could describe essential features of what it means to be a competent and respected
nurse. Using the competency definitions, the authors propose statements of the knowledge,
skills, and attitudes (KSAs) for each competency that should be developed during pre-licensure nursing education. Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) faculty and advisory
board members invite the profession to comment on the competencies and their definitions
and on whether the KSAs for pre-licensure education are appropriate goals for students
preparing for basic practice as a registered nurse.
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Biography
Linda Cronenwett is a Professor and Dean at the School of Nursing, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Gwen Sherwood is a Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the School of Nursing, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Jane Barnsteiner is a Professor and Director of Translational Research at the School of Nursing and Hospital of the University of Pennysylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
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Joanne Disch is Kathyrn R. and C. Walton Lillehei Professor and Director of the Densford International Center for Nursing Leadership at the School of Nursing, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
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Jean Johnson is a Professor and Senior Associate Dean for Health Sciences at The George Washington University, Washington, DC.
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Pamela Mitchell is Elizabeth S. Soule Professor and Associate Dean for Research at the School of Nursing, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
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Dori Taylor Sullivan is an Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Nursing at Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT.
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Judith Warren is an Associate Professor at the University of Kansas School of Nursing and Director of Nursing Informatics at Kansas University Center for Healthcare Informatics, Kansas City, KS.
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