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 …

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

Engaging staff in performance improvement and patient safety initiatives is no easy task. It is
not just time that is involved but there is also a definite repertoire of knowledge, skills, and …

The world in which today's graduates will provide care is changing, as are expectations
about caregivers' performance. Learning how to improve quality of care must occur during …

Evaluating various nursing program outcomes helps faculty assess program quality.
Evaluation efforts may reveal programs are not meeting their established benchmarks …

Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) competencies of patient-centered care,
teamwork and collaboration, quality improvement (QI), evidence-based practice, safety, and …

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 …

During the past decade, there has been increasing emphasis on nurses leading and
participating in quality improvement (QI) activities, creating a need for nursing students to …

As new healthcare reforms are implemented and as the Joint Commission on Accreditation
of Healthcare Organization standards are revised, the demand for continuous quality …

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 …