Overview
Principal Investigator Linda Cronenwett received $1,094,477 from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to fund Phase II of the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) project. The award will enable Cronenwett and project co-investigator Gwen Sherwood to continue work on Phase I that has been in progress since October, 2005. The long-range goal of QSEN is to reshape professional identity formation in nursing to include commitment to quality and safety competencies recommended by the Institute of Medicine (IOM). To date, QSEN faculty have defined quality and safety competencies for nursing and proposed targets for the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to be developed in nursing pre-licensure programs for each competency: patient-centered care, teamwork and collaboration, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, safety, and informatics. They also completed a national survey of baccalaureate program leaders and a state survey of associate degree educators to assess beliefs about the extent to which the competencies are included in current curricula, the level of satisfaction with student competency achievement, and the level of faculty expertise in teaching the competencies. A website – www.qsen.org – will be launched in April, 2007, to feature teaching strategies and resources.
In Phase II, QSEN will partner with representatives of organizations that represent advanced practice nurses to draft proposed knowledge, skills, and attitude targets for graduate education. Phase II also includes work with 15 pilot schools who commit to active engagement in curricular change to incorporate quality and safety competencies.
Other project staff from UNC-Chapel Hill include: Denise Hirst, project manager, John Carlson, statistician, and Jean Blackwell, from the UNC Health Sciences Library.
The following are QSEN content and pedagogical specialists: Deborah Ward from the University of Washington, patient-centered care; Joanne Disch from the University of Minnesota, teamwork and collaboration; Dori Taylor Sullivan from Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut, evidence-based practice; Judith Warren from the University of Kansas, informatics; Jean Johnson from George Washington University, quality improvement; Jane Barnsteiner from the University of Pennsylvania, safety; Shirley Moore from Case Western Reserve University, interprofessional learning; Pamela Ironside from Indiana University, narrative pedagogies; Carol Durham from the SON, simulation; and Lisa Day from the University of California-San Francisco, clinical site teaching.
QSEN Advisory Board members include Paul Batalden from the Dartmouth Medical School; Geraldine Bednash, executive director of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing; Karen Drenkard, Robert Wood Johnson executive fellow and chief nursing executive of Inova Health System of Falls Church, VA; Leslie Hall from the University of Missouri-Columbia; Mary (Polly) Johnson, executive director of the North Carolina State Board of Nursing; Maryjoan Ladden from Harvard Medical School; Audrey Nelson, director of the Patient Safety Research Center at the Veterans Administration in Tampa, Florida; Joanne Pohl from the University of Michigan and National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties; M. Elaine Tagliareni from the Community College of Philadelphia and National League for Nursing, and Jeanne Floyd, executive director of the American Nurses Credentialing Center.
In Phase II, QSEN will partner with representatives of organizations that represent advanced practice nurses to draft proposed knowledge, skills, and attitude targets for graduate education. Phase II also includes work with 15 pilot schools who commit to active engagement in curricular change to incorporate quality and safety competencies.
Other project staff from UNC-Chapel Hill include: Denise Hirst, project manager, John Carlson, statistician, and Jean Blackwell, from the UNC Health Sciences Library.
The following are QSEN content and pedagogical specialists: Deborah Ward from the University of Washington, patient-centered care; Joanne Disch from the University of Minnesota, teamwork and collaboration; Dori Taylor Sullivan from Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut, evidence-based practice; Judith Warren from the University of Kansas, informatics; Jean Johnson from George Washington University, quality improvement; Jane Barnsteiner from the University of Pennsylvania, safety; Shirley Moore from Case Western Reserve University, interprofessional learning; Pamela Ironside from Indiana University, narrative pedagogies; Carol Durham from the SON, simulation; and Lisa Day from the University of California-San Francisco, clinical site teaching.
QSEN Advisory Board members include Paul Batalden from the Dartmouth Medical School; Geraldine Bednash, executive director of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing; Karen Drenkard, Robert Wood Johnson executive fellow and chief nursing executive of Inova Health System of Falls Church, VA; Leslie Hall from the University of Missouri-Columbia; Mary (Polly) Johnson, executive director of the North Carolina State Board of Nursing; Maryjoan Ladden from Harvard Medical School; Audrey Nelson, director of the Patient Safety Research Center at the Veterans Administration in Tampa, Florida; Joanne Pohl from the University of Michigan and National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties; M. Elaine Tagliareni from the Community College of Philadelphia and National League for Nursing, and Jeanne Floyd, executive director of the American Nurses Credentialing Center.