Infusing Quality and Safety Education for Nurses into Your Curriculum - PROJECT ABSTRACT – DISSEMINATION AND IMPLEMENTATION
“Infusing Quality and Safety Education for Nurses into Your Curriculum”
Goal/Objectives: The conference goal is to provide nurse educators with the knowledge
needed to develop and implement teaching strategies that support integration of the
IOM/QSEN Competencies into education programs for nurses and for nursing students in
order to improve quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care for all Americans.
The objectives are that participants will be able to: 1) Identify knowledge, skills, and attitudes
that emphasize the IOM/QSEN Competencies; 2) Understand educational strategies to be
incorporated into the classroom and/or clinical practice environment that support behaviors
consistent with the IOM/QSEN Competencies; 3) Identify available resources to support
educational and implementation strategies aimed at quality improvement, increased patient
safety, and efficiency of health care delivery systems; 4) Analyze strategies to promote
teambuilding and facilitate effective communication between healthcare team members to
improve effectiveness and efficiency of care; and 5) Use methodical strategies and reflection
as a means to improve both system and individual effectiveness in providing care for patients.
Rationale: In 2005, it was estimated that 98,000 persons die annually from healthcare
error; however, 10 years later, data indicate that 400,000 persons die annually from healthcare
error. Given this staggering new figure, full and swift implementation of the established patient
healthcare quality and safety competencies is critical to improving healthcare. This conference
will address a gap in nursing education to produce a new-to-practice nurse who will be able to
meet established patient healthcare quality and safety competencies at the start of service in
order to provide safe, effective, high quality care to broad populations.
Design: This will be an intensive one-day conference for which continuing education
credits will be awarded by the American Nurses Credentialing Center through TCNJ’s affiliation
the QSEN Institute at Case Western Reserve University.
Topics Covered: The conference will cover teaching strategies and innovative methods to
operationalize activities that support the IOM/QSEN Competencies. Strategies will be
demonstrated to engage learners on topics of implementing patient-centered actions, building
evidence-based practice, creating a just culture to support patient safety, using quality
improvement to drive high reliability organizations, using informatics to help patients manage
their own care, and using communication strategies that create effective work environments.
Audience: Up to 125 nurse educators from the academia and practice arenas.
