Guidelines for Submission of Teaching Strategies
Welcome to the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) webpage that provides guidelines for how to share information about quality and safety teaching strategies you have developed. Submissions are peer reviewed.
The purpose of this website is to help spread good ideas about quality and safety education to nursing (and health professions) faculty throughout the world.
Although the QSEN project team will evaluate each submission in terms of its relevance to quality and safety education and its overall grammatical presentation, submissions will not meet traditional criteria for peer review.
By completing a submission, you are giving permission for the information to be made available on this website. You may place all relevant information in the submission, you may upload one additional file, or you may provide an overview but require interested faculty to contact you for additional materials. Regardless of which approach you take, by your submission you are giving permission to receive inquiries and requests for information.
Each teaching strategy requires a separate submission form; however, you may submit an entire course syllabus or module, if desired.
If at some future point you wish to remove your submission from the website, email qsen@unc.edu
You may wish to print the following guidelines for use during the electronic submission process.
Title: Choose any title of 12 words or less. You may want the title to reflect a specific competency, the type of strategy, or the target learner audience.
Competency category: Quality and safety competencies are inter-related, so more than one competency may be checked, but it will be most helpful to readers if you represent the focus of your submission as narrowly as possible.
Learner level: If you have used this strategy with a variety of learners, check all that apply. Otherwise, choose the one learner level with whom you worked when the strategy was developed, implemented or evaluated.
Learning setting: Check all settings to which your strategy can be easily adapted.
Type of strategy: Choose the one descriptor that best identifies your submission.
Learning objectives: If relevant, describe the targets for learning using one or more of the knowledge, skills, or attitudes (KSAs) for prelicensure education published by QSEN Nursing Outlook Lead Article-Competency Definitions and KSA's
Strategy overview: You will have up to 750 words to describe the strategy and how you have used or propose to use it. For some submissions, the entire strategy may be described in this section.
File format: If you want to upload a file to which your strategy overview will be linked, provide the filename and check the format. You may request that people contact you for additional files. Provide a description of the materials you are willing to share and direction for how to contact you.
Evaluation: You have up to 300 words to describe evaluation strategies related to student learning or student or faculty satisfaction with this strategy. If none exists to date, readers will welcome ideas about how you think learning, satisfaction, or competency development could be assessed.
There are undoubtedly hundreds of ways to help learners develop competencies in patient-centered care, teamwork and collaboration, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, safety, and informatics. Thank you for sharing your ideas and experiences with one or more teaching strategies. Your generosity adds to the collective wisdom about ‘what works’ and enhances the possibility that all nurses will one day consider these competencies to be fundamental to what it means to be a respected nurse.
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For questions, contact qsen@unc.edu