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2. List the six (6) Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) competencies and explain their importance. Answer:

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Ans2) The six major QSEN competencies developed for pre-licensure and graduate nursing programs include patient-centered care, teamwork and collaboration, evidence-based practice (EBP), quality improvement (QI), safety, and informatics.

- The QSEN competencies are:

1) Patient-centered care—Patients should be included in all decisions and the care provided to them should be based on their needs and values. Nurses need to take the patients’ perspectives, beliefs, and cultural backgrounds into consideration.

2) Teamwork and collaboration—Nursing requires interdisciplinary collaboration and shared decision-making based on the perspectives and expertise of all health team members.
3) Evidence-based practice (EBP)—Nurses need to use their clinical expertise and the best current evidence available along with patient preferences and values to provide the best and safest care possible.

4) Quality improvement (QI)— Nurses need to “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 health care systems”. When a serious adverse patient outcome or unexpected death occurs, hospitals need to conduct a root cause analysis to find out what happened, why it happened, and how it can be prevented from occurring in the future.

5) Safety—Nurses and institutions need to minimizes the risk of harm to patients and providers through a culture of safety.

6) Informatics—Nurses need to “use information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision making” while promoting safety and quality .