Exam 1 - Chapter 13 Flashcards
What does QSEN stand for?
Quality and Safety Education for Nurses
Goal of QSEN?
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 health care systems within which they work
What are the six categories under QSEN?
Patient-Centered Care Teamwork and Collaboration Evidence-Based Practice Quality Improvement Safety Informatics
What falls under Patient-Centered Care?
Listening to the patient and demonstrating respect and compassion
What does KSA stand for?
Knowledge, Skills, and Attitudes
Patient Centered Care: KSA - K
Integrate undersanding of multiple dimensions of person-centered care
Patient Centered Care: KSA - S
Elicit patient values, preferences, and expressed needs as part of the clinical interview, implementation of care plan
Patient Centered Care: KSA - A
Value seeing health care situations “through patients eyes”
What falls under Teamwork and Collaboration?
Traditional view of teamwork may involve working side by side with other health care professionals while forming nursing skills
Teamwork and Collaboration: KSA - K
Describe scope of practice and roles of health care team members
Teamwork and Collaboration: KSA - S
Follow communication practices that minimize risk associated with handoff among providers and across transition in care
Teamwork and Collaboration: KSA - A
Acknowledge own potential to contribute to effective team functioning
What is Evidence-Based Practice
Traditional practice involve adhering to internal policies to standardize skills execution
Evidence-Based Practice: KSA - K
Describe evidence-based practice to include compotents of research evidence, and clincial expertise
Evidence-Based Practice: KSA - S
BAse individualized care plan on patient values, clinical experience
Evidence-Based Practice: KSA - A
Value the concept of evidence-based practice as integral to determining best clinical practice
What is quality improvement?
Long-standing approach to quality involves routinely updating nursing policies and procedures
Quality Improvement: KSA -K
Recognition that nursing and other health professions students are parts of systems of care and care processes that affect outcomes for patients and families
Evidence-Based Practice: KSA - S
The Delphi rating did not identify a beginning skills in quality improvement, but rather recommended introduction and emphasis in intermediate or advanced experiences
Evidence-Based Practice: KSA - A
Appreciate continuous quality improvement as essential in the daily work of all health care professionals
What falls under Safety
Simplistic, traditional definition of safety is to use bed rails properly to ensure that my patient does not fall during my shift
Safety: KSA - K
Examine human factors and other basic safety design principles as well as commonly used unsafe practices
Safety: KSA - S
DEmonstrate effective use of strategies to reduce risk of harm to self or others
Safety: KSA - A
Value the contributions of standardization and reliability to safety
