Qsen Reflection
Running head: REFLECTION
Reflection
Casandra Wakefield
University of Arizona
Reflection
There is a great need in the nursing world to ensure that quality and safety are focused and stressed upon in nursing education. The Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) address the issues of effectively teaching, in regards to quality, and safety competencies in education (Dolansky & Moore, 2013, ¶ 1). The QSEN was developed to provide nursing education from the focus of individual patient care to the focus of care of the health care system. The QSEN recommends ways to educate and calculate heath care system thinking (Dolansky & Moore, ¶ 1). QSEN really is asking for the nursing profession to move away from individual patient care frame of thinking and prepare graduating nurses with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes (KSA) to really look detailed at the health care system as a whole.
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