Topic 5 Flashcards
Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN)
a guide in providing quality and safety for nurses and agencies to provide the best possible care
safety
freedom from accidental injury
What is the goal of QSEN?
Address challenge of preparing future nurses with KSA’s as necessary to continuously improve the quality and safety of health care system in which they work
What are KSAs?
knowledge, skills, attitudes
what are the 6 competencies fro nursing education
patient centered care
teamwork and collaboration
EBP
quality improvement (QI)
safety
informatics
quality improvement process
bringing excellence to healthcare decision making, quality improvement and research
Quality indicators
standardized evidence bases measures of health care quality that are used to monitor of all areas of patient care (clinical performance and outcome)
who created the National Patient Safety goals?
the Joint Commission
what are the 6 patient safety goals?
identify patient correctly
improve effective communication
improve the safety of high alert medications
ensure correct site, correct procedure, correct patient surgery
reduce risk of health care associates infections
reduce the risk of patient harm resulting from falls
safety primers
priority recognition
preventable adverse event
those due to error or failure to apply an accepted strategy for prevention
Ameliorable adverse event
events that while not preventable, could have been less harmful if care had been different
adverse events due to negligence
those due to care that falls below the standards expected of clinicians in the community
near miss
an unsafe situation that is indistinguishable from a preventable adverse event except for the outcome. A patient is exposed to a hazardous situation, but does not experience harm either through luck or early detection.
error
any acts of commission (doing something wrong) or omission (failing to do the right thing) that exposes the patient to a potentially hazardous situation
