Quality and Safety Education for Nurses Competencies

Running head: QSEN COMPETENCIES
QUALITY AND SAFETY EDUCATION FOR NURSES COMPETENCIES
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1QSEN COMPETENCIES
The prime goal of the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) was to determine
the nurse’s capabilities to face the challenges they will be facing in their future (QSEN, 2018).
Further it will make them aware of their skills, capabilities, knowledge and attitude that will help
them to face those challenges gracefully in future. While my QSEN project, I also gone through
several situations that made me aware of my KSA’s (knowledge, skills and attitude) (Barnsteiner
et al., 2013). there are few KSA’s that I can designate as the strength of my personality and those
are collaborative and team work, improvement quality and knowledge related to safety. These
three are few of the basic nuances that helps healthcare professionals to develop or grow as
healthcare professionals.
Knowledge of safety related matters such as use of technological and standardized
practice to support safety and quality, use strategies so that safety related risk factors can be
reduced or eliminated and different safety enhancing technologies so that awareness related to
safety can be spread. Knowledge of these skills made my QSEN practice safe and of high
quality. Further, I was able to use previous data to determine my improvement as a healthcare
professionals. Therefore, I had provided myself the ability to develop my healthcare quality.
Further I am free to newer informations that kept me informed with newer ideas and concepts
hence, quality improvement was another strength. Finally I was able to work in collaboration or
within team (due to my previous work experience in the U.S.Army) that helped me to develop a
diverse personality and interpersonal communication skills. Hence these are the strengths of my
personality.
However, there are several aspects of my personality that I can develop are patient
centered care and usage of healthcare informatics. Due to my long career in USA army, I