Safety

Definition

Minimizes risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance.

KSAs

To see proposed knowledge, skills and attitudes for pre-licensure nursing education click on the link below.

Note: Nursing Outlook Lead Article-Competency Definitions and KSA's

Annotated Bibliography(s)

• Safety - updated June 2008

• Safety - Updated October 2007

• Safety - Updated July 2007

• Safety

Related Teaching Strategies

• Clinical settings
• Clinical Conference and the One Minute Safety Check
• Interdisciplinary CQI Course Syllabus
• Medication Reconciliation
• Reformulating SBAR to "I-SBAR-R"
• SBAR Memory Card Strategy
• Senior Nursing Student Capstone Clinical Integration Paper: Incorporating Quality and Safety Competencies
• Staff work-arounds assignment
• Website Evaluation Exercise

• Skills or simulation laboratories
• Advanced Pharmacology in Nursing Practice Competency Exam
• Basic Pharmacology in Nursing Practice Competency Exam
• Communication Picture Exercise
• Low-Fidelity Simulation: Care of the Post -CABG Patient
• OB Unfolding Case
• Pediatric Simulation and Unfolding Case Study
• Promoting Safety in an Unfolding Simulated Public Health Disaster
• Reformulating SBAR to "I-SBAR-R"
• SBAR Memory Card Strategy
• Safe Patient Handling and Movement Curriculum

• Online or web-based modules
• Exploring the Complexity of Advocacy: Balancing Patient-Centered Care and Safety
• Interdisciplinary CQI Course Syllabus
• Patient Safety Teaching Case – Hyperkalemia
• Patient Safety Teaching Case – Wrong Patient Procedure

• Classroom
• Communication Picture Exercise
• Critiquing Nursing Research Articles: Safety Research
• Exploring the Complexity of Advocacy: Balancing Patient-Centered Care and Safety
• Interdisciplinary CQI Course Syllabus
• Interprofessional Curriculum in Patient Safety and Quality Improvement
• Medication Reconciliation
• Medication Variance Report: Authentic Assessment Exercise
• Pancreatitis Unfolding Case
• Patient Safety Teaching Case – Hyperkalemia
• Patient Safety Teaching Case – Wrong Patient Procedure
• Patient Teaching and Safety: Exploring Health Literacy
• Peri-operative Nursing: An Unfolding Case Study
• Reformulating SBAR to "I-SBAR-R"

• Independent study
• Exploring the Complexity of Advocacy: Balancing Patient-Centered Care and Safety