The Beside Assessment and Documentation Basics: A Pocket Card for Beginning Nursing Students is a clinical tool to promote quality, safe care in beginning nursing students. First semester pre-licensure nursingContinue reading
Author: QSEN Institute
Giving and Receiving Constructive Feedback
This is a narrated presentation. Students may listen to it on-line, at home, or in the classroom with a faculty member. The presentation can be loaded into Electronic Course FrameworksContinue reading
“Elder” Centered Care: Flipping the concept map
This clinical activity is used to teach students to create an elder centered plan of care. In preparing to understand more about elders the student will review the following learningContinue reading
An Interactive Teaching Strategy Using I-SBAR-R to Improve Communication and Quality and Safety in Patient Care
This teaching strategy encourages practice with I-SBAR-R so that students can develop communication skills that are necessary for safe practice. The purpose of this strategy is to 1) promote theContinue reading
“Building a Quality House” Using an Interdependent QSEN Competency Model
Integrating the Quality and Safety for Education of Nursing (QSEN) competencies as individual concepts or “silos” of knowledge into existing nursing curricula limits the student’s ability to apply the conceptsContinue reading
Simulation
Educator will assign 2-4 students to triage 15 patients. Discuss each patient scenario with the class and decide if each patient was triaged appropriately. Transition the clinical group to theContinue reading
AACN Faculty Development Workshops
Mark your calendars! In an effort to further disseminate the QSEN teaching strategies, AACN (American Association of Critical-Care Nurses) has launched six web-based learning modules focused on the six coreContinue reading
A Conceptual Model of QSEN
A copy of the conceptual model of qsen is attached as Strategy Material: File 1. The use of a visual conceptualization of QSEN can be especially important by allowing studentsContinue reading
Perinatal Unfolding Case Study
This unfolding perinatal case study takes the learner from the initial prenatal visit of a patient with many risk factors and complications through the perinatal period. Through this exercise, theContinue reading
Practicing Effective Provider Phone Contacts
Develop a realistic patient scenario that would mandate a health care provider contact (consider some of your past clinical experiences). Consider a typical situation that would warrant this phone call – aContinue reading