Reference no: EM132264114 , Length: word count:600

Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) JOURNAL Assignment - Quality Improvement JOURNAL

Upon competition of this activity the students will be able to:

1) Review the QSEN website com for details on the QSEN competencies. The following are examples of QSEN Competencies.

• Quality Improvement (QI): Use data to monitor the outcomes of care processes and use improvement methods to design and test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of healthcare systems.
• Safety: Minimize risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance.
• Teamwork and Collaboration: Function effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care.
• Patient-centered Care: Recognize the patient or designee as the source of control and full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for patient's preferences, values, and needs.
• Evidence-Based Practice (EBP): Integrate best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values for delivery of optimal health care.
• Informatics: Use information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate

2) While at clinical, you will identify a clinical problem on the nursing unit by using one of the QSEN competencies (see examples below). The student will individually prepare and write a reflective journal emphasizing best practices within their topic. The journal should be written in an APA format and should be two (2) pages in length and double spaced.

3) The journal must include a minimum of two evidence based nursing articles written within the 5 years.

Examples:

• Pain Assessment and Management
• Fall preventions
• Medication errors
• Communication -SBAR (Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation) -
• Types of Alarms - clinical
• Hand hygiene
• HIPPA and safety of patient information
• EMR (Electronic Medical Record) and bar coding scanning
• Braden scale
• Preventing pressure ulcers and turning practices.

Note - Need 600 words.

Attachment:- Assignment File.rar