patients. Additionally, the purpose of this paper is to explain and provide examples of how our patient care included the concepts of Quality and Safety Education for Nursing (QSEN) competencies, delegation, hand off reporting, and a reflection of our clinical experience. Quality and Safety Education for Nursing (QSEN) Competencies To provide patient centered care, I had to educate the patient when administering medications about why the patient was taking the medication and side effects. Care had to
Discuss the IOM competencies of patient-centered care and quality improvement and their accompanying KSA. Discuss how you apply these competencies in your practice The Institute of Medicine strives to ensure appropriate healthcare is delivered to patients by recommending quality improvement approaches. The Quality Chasm report provided by the Institute of Medicine strives to ensure quality improvement in the 21st century. The IOM identifies core competencies that are needed for healthcare providers
to the specificity of a particular healthcare organization. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing QSEN Education Consortium (2015) briefly discusses six elements that are identified as essential components leading to the quality improvement of an organization. These six essential elements include safety, teamwork and collaboration, patient-centered care, evidence-based practice, health informatics, and quality improvement. Safety is important to minimize the risk of harm to patients
Give an example of a nurse who is emotionally intelligent. How is this different from being cognitively intelligent? What are the ramifications for patients and families if a nurse is emotionally underdeveloped? For health care team members? A nurse that possesses emotional intelligent is one that is able to voice their opinion in an appropriate manner in a case that there is a staff disagreement and is able to avoid or end an argument between two staff employees. A nurse who is emotionally intelligent
to a variety of prior papers created as part of the program, the understanding of the intention of those projects become clearer as development of researching, analyzing, critical thinking and understanding of evidence base practice. The rationalization of looking at evidence base practice as an important tool at the time of approaching any particular situation seems now as the best rational way, when I have to face a conflict or dilemma not only along the nursing career but also in my personal life