The need to attend to quality and safety competency development, increase capacity in
nursing education programs, address the faculty and nursing shortages, and find new ways …

Nurse-graduates today must be prepared to practice in a complicated healthcare system
with numerous safety challenges. Although patient safety and quality competencies are a …

Second, a recent analysis of the implications of the rapidly aging registered nurse (RN)
workforce projects a further increase in the average age of employed RNs. In fact, after …

Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) remains a priority at all levels of nursing
education, 1, 2 but many programs do not have a systematic integration plan for the QSEN …

United States national reports have called for improvement in healthcare professions
education to better address patient care outcomes. In response, an initiative titled “Quality …

Eight years later, patient safety and quality improvement are, together, fundamental
American healthcare policy concerns. While the quality of care in the United States remains …

The Institute of Medicine has noted that a key factor underlying patient safety problems in the
United States is a paucity of quality and safety training programs for clinicians. The Greater …

• Application of informatics Applying this and keeping up with the current information is not
easy. The reports describe a health care system that is complex and fragmented—one in …

In this department, the authors highlight hot topics in nursing outcomes, research, and
evidence-based practice relevant to the nurse administrator. The goal is to discuss the …