Objective Quality and safety are high priorities for US hospitals today. This focus is likely to
intensify, given the rapidly changing and complex health care environment. While health …

Significant changes in the healthcare environment have occurred that offer challenges for
quality improvement and nursing education programs, and thus impact both nursing practice …

Improvements in health care are slow, in part because doctors and nurses lack skills in
quality improvement, patient safety, and interprofessional teamwork. This article reports on …

Responding to the growing concern about medical error and patient harm, nurse educators
are seeking innovative strategies to ensure that nursing students develop the knowledge …

More than 10 years have passed since the publication of the Institute of Medicine's report, To
Err is Human: Building a Safer Health Care System, yet recent reports indicate that …

Concerns about the quality and safety of health care have changed practice expectations
and created a mandate for change in the preparation of health care professionals. The …

Abstract The Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) project is enhancing the
emphasis on quality care and patient safety content in nursing schools. A partnership …

The media tell us. The literature tells us. The accrediting agencies tell us. Our friends and
families tell us. Preventable errors continue to occur in health care organizations today. One …

Practicing nurses are required to engage in quality improvement work as a part of their
clinical practice, but few undergraduate nursing education programs offer course work and …

In 2001 I coauthored an editorial in the American Academy of Nursing's official journal,
Nursing Outlook, urging undergraduate and graduate nursing education programs to …