Integrating NLN Principles into Nursing Programs

The Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) works in conjunction with the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) to revise and enhance existing nursing curricula, focusing on six valued nursing goals. The National League for Nursing (NLN) promotes excellence in nursing education by establishing a strong and diverse nursing workforce. NLN's core values include caring, integrity, diversity, and excellence. The organization offers professional development, networking opportunities, testing services, research grants, and policy initiatives. QSEN and NLN aim to promote continuous development of faculty as educator-scholars, develop research initiatives, and advance evidence-based nursing education.

Comparison of industry stands
Present paper describes the comparison of major components of standards across the world.
American Association of College of Nursing
Mission vision
Statement
AACN is the national voice for baccalaureate and graduate nursing education. The
organization works to establish quality standards for nursing education, assists
schools in implementing those standards; influences the nursing profession to
improve health care; and promotes public support for professional nursing education,
research, and practice (AACN, 2016). The vision is to lead efforts to transform health
care and improve health.
Mission: As the collective voice for academic nursing, AACN serves as the catalyst for
excellence and innovation in nursing education, research, and practice.
Covert Goals
Depth / Length
It has its underlying purpose the role of advance nurses in leadership and increased scope
of practice as the nursing discipline evolves. Development of nurses to the highest degree
includes scientific inquiry and research. Following are goals of AACN
o To drive an innovative and excellence in academic nursing in order to promote inter
professional health care; build strategic partnerships
o To improve the health care, and higher education
o To advocate for advancing diversity and inclusivity within academic nursing
o To authoritative knowledge to advance academic nursing
It appears that AACN agenda of continuous expansion and leadership potential of the
nurse as they become more educated. The CCNE is a subsidiary of this organization and
is the voluntary credentialing division for nursing programs.
Overt Goals
Depth / Length
The AACN has published three papers which are fundamental in their perspective of
nursing goals;
1. The Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice
2. The Essentials of Master's Education for Advanced Practice Nursing
3. The Essentials of Doctoral Education for Advanced Practice Nursing.
The focus on educational goals of the nursing graduates are enumerated and explained
within these documents. They set the standards for expectations of the student curriculum
and faculty of each academic area.
“AACN maintains seven Leadership Networks for nursing school faculty and staff
involved in instructional development, research, organizational leadership, faculty
practice, business operations, graduate student recruitment, and
communications/development AACN, 2016).”
Alignment to
Mission
The published documents and steadfast adherence to the principles of improved healthcare
are manifested throughout the AACN website. The supportive resources they have align
with the mission of producing curriculum standards of research inclusivity and assisting
schools in maintenance of these goals. The AACN contains adequate expertise to provide
strategic plan for the implementation of standards in the nursing education and research
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Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN)
Mission Building nursing’s capacity to continuously improve the quality and safety of health care.
Vision No clear vision statement is posted on site. However it can be understood from the content of
web for the below vision
“Creation and nurture a learning environment to facilitate the highest standards of excellence
in nursing research and education. It provides a platform to accelerate the standards utilizing
diverse training programs”
Goals To “QSENize” school curriculum. The QSEN was founded in part after stakeholders became
aware of the IOMarticle with below goals
o To promote health and reduce the burden of disease. Dedicated to interdisciplinary
scholarship, we are committed to the pursuit of excellence in service to local and
global communities.
o To increase the number of graduating health care professionals who will be able to
communicate with Spanish-speaking patients.
o To provide care to underserved patients by addressing oral health and systemic
health care needs.
Six principles components make up the core of QSEN which have as the ultimate purpose to
revise curriculum to focus on patient-centered care, teamwork and collaboration, evidence-
based practice, quality improvement and informatics, and safety (QSEN, 2016). The updated
list comprising eight competencies is provided in the web. The definitions of the knowledge
skills and attitudes to support these individual elements were also determined. In 2007
QSEN.org was initiated with the support of the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation (AACN,
2016). The complete details pertaining to the strategies are provided in detail under diverse
four phases. Following the first phase of development in which the six competencies were
described (QSEN, 2016) was phase II. This phase saw the official commencement of the
organization and pilot programs were which included these principles into various academic
programs.
Depth /
Length
Alignment
to mission
The focus of the QSEN works in conjunction with the AACN to consistently revise and
enhance existing nursing curricula. The table which specifies exact nursing behaviors in
respect to the knowledge, skills and attitudes provides the foundation for excellence and
improvement of the six valued nursing goals (Dolansky & Moore, 2013). QSEN actively
pursues strategies to meet the increasingly complex nursing agenda. The learning activities
have been covered in semesters to distribute and review current National Patient Safety Goal
(NPSG) Worksheet with clinical instructors during orientation of the first clinical course;
encourage clinical instructors to review the NPSG Clinical Worksheet with students during
orientation to the acute care facility and during pre-conference on the designated clinical day;
direct students to monitor and evaluate safety practices in the clinical setting; instruct students
to document observations and recommendations on NPSG Clinical Worksheet and direct
activity questions and safety concerns to the clinical instructor; instruct each student to
develop a plan of care during the clinical day based on analysis of observations and discuss
observations, recommendations, and plan of care with clinical group during post-conference.
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National League of Nursing (NLN)
NLN Mission The National League for Nursing promotes excellence in nursing education to build a
strong and diverse nursing workforce to advance the health of our nation and the global
community. The core values of NLN are to establish caring, integrity, diversity and
excellence in its members. In addition, NLN offers professional development, networking
opportunities, testing services, nursing research grants, and public policy initiatives.
Promotes nursing research by providing projects to the eligible investigators
Vision
Statement
The NLN has a series of vision statements listed on its site. Each vision statement
concerns major topics such as collaboration, diversity and simulation. In a sentence, the
values can be described as a premier organization for nurse faculty and leaders in nursing
education. The principles can be reviewed in their statement, A Vision for Recognition of
the Role of Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurses in Advancing the Nation’s Health
Covert Goals
Depth/length
The NLN has as its underlying focus the excellence in the faculty and nurse leaders with
below goals.
o To enhance leadership qualities of nurses
o To promote the preparation of a nursing workforce that contributes to health care
quality and safety
o To build a diverse, sustainable, member-led organization with the capacity to
deliver the task effectively, efficiently, and in accordance with our values.
o To utilize evidence-based nursing education and the scholarship of teaching.
(Rizzolo et al., 2015)
o To promote continuous development of faculty as educator-scholars
o To develop, design, and advance research initiatives that have broad-based
significance
NLN covers a depth of understating in terms of scope for diverse educational resources to
advance and support transformative nursing. These include testing, development and
evaluation of administrators and those who aspire to lead. They also concern themselves
in the political arena, by their dedication to the shaping and influencing policies which
affect nursing workforce development
Overt Goals
Depth / Length
NLN supports the faculty, experts and leaders by providing resources for excellence. NLN
publishes numerous books (Building the future of nursing, Periodic Professional
Development Bulletin, Nursing Education Perspectives: The NLN Research Journal) and
updates for the benefit of health work force to minimize the gap of nursing services. The
publications recognize the mission objectives of advancement of the health of the global
community. This organization has partnered with Laerdal Medical and Wolters-Kluwer
Health to provide technologically advanced simulation laboratories. The concentration on
the provision of these skills; as well as development programs for faculty represent their
commitment to the mission to “build a strong and diverse nursing workforce (NLN, 2016).
Alignment with
mission
NLN Vision Series serves as a roadmap for the future of nursing, reflecting the NLN's role
as the leader in nursing education.
The NLN boasts a remarkable past, an exceptional present, and a shared, transformative
future. Meet some of the individuals who bring the NLN’s mission and core values to life
with purpose, passion, and power. NLN provide programs and quantitative reports for the
distribution of curriculum hours and corresponding requirements for clinical experience that
would permit the analysis. The accreditation review bodies of the NLN are reported to
expect baccalaureate programs to offer some basic preparation in community health via
diverse statements. The statements however formerly known as position statement delve
into the local, national and global criteria of the nursing as a community advocate.
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References
AACN (2016) Vision and mission Retrieved from http://www.aacn.nche.edu/about-aacn/vision-mission
Dolansky, M.A & Moore, S.M (2013) Quality and safety education for nurses (QSEN): The key is systems
thinking. Online J Issues Nurs. 18(3), 1.
NLN (2016) Retrieved from http://www.nln.org/newsroom/newsletters-and-journal
Rizzolo, M.A., Kardong-Edgren, S., Oermann, M.H & Jeffries, P.R (2015) The national league for nursing
project to explore the use of simulation for high-stakes assessment: Process, outcomes, and
recommendations. Nurs Educ Perspect. 36(5), 299-303.
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