Question

DSEN Adiviny

Answer 1

#. Quality, Safety, and Education in Nursing (QSEN)

The overall goal is to meet the challenge of preparing future nurses who will have the knowledge, skills and attitudes (KSAs) necessary to continuously improve the quality and safety of the healthcare systems within which they work.

The 6 competencies of Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes

1. Patient-Centered Care

2. Teamwork and Collaboration

3. Evidence Based Practice

4. Quality Improvement

5. Safety

6. Informatics

#. patient centered care

The pt is the source of control and full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for the pt's preferences, values, and needs

#. Safety

Ability to keep the pt and staff free from harm and minimize errors in care,

#. Teamwork and interprofessional collaboration

- fostering open communication, mutual respect, and share decision making to achieve quality pt care

-Includes the pt, family, nurses unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP) and other health professionals and their assistants needed.

#. Evidence based practice

-The integration of the best current evidence and practices to make decisions about pt care. It considered the pt's preferences and values and one's own clinical expertise

-Has levels of evidence with level 1 being the strongest which is systematic reviews and integrative or meta-analysis studies.

#. Quality improvement (QI)

-Sometimes called evidence based practice improvement because the best sources of evidence are used to support the improvement or change in practice

-The process in which nurses and others use indicators (data) go monitor care outcomes and come up with solutions to change and improve care

-Systematic QI models

---PDSA - plan do study act

---FOCUS-PDCA

---DMAIC

#. Informatics

-The access and use of information and electronic tech to communicate, manage knowledge, prevent error and support decision making

-Electronic health record, phones, computers, barcode medication administration