Assignment Task: In 2012, the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) convened a panel of experts in the field of quality and safety education and graduate-level practice and representatives of key stakeholder organizations to review the existing Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) graduate competencies and AACN's recently revised Essentials of Master's Education in Nursing (2011). Their goal was to determine the competencies that graduate-prepared nurses must possess to meet contemporary care standards. All MSN-prepared nurses should be competent in the following QSEN areas:
- Quality improvement
- Safety
- Teamwork and collaboration
- Patient-centered care
- Evidence-based practice
- Informatics
For this discussion, please choose a QSEN competency that impacts your role (nursing education or administration). Please discuss the following:
Describe the graduate-level QSEN competency and how this competency specifically impacts your role.
Specifically describe how you, a graduate-prepared nurse, will address this competency compared to how an undergraduate nurse would.
"I choose SAFETY"