Quality and Safety Education

Running head: QUALITY AND SAFETY EDUCATION
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QUALITY AND SAFETY EDUCATION 2
Quality and Safety Education
It is essential to incorporate QSEN essentials in nursing education. The QSEN
essentials provide tools for evaluating, acknowledging, and supporting good work done by
nurses; hence enhancing the establishment of work environments that uphold quality and
nurses’ fulfilment. Incorporating the QSEN essentials in the curriculum ensures that nurses
bring mindfulness and attention into their work, deliver patient-focused care, identify
problems in the process of care delivery and seek possible solutions, utilize the best
practices and engage in life-long learning (Sherwood & Zomorodi, 2014). Nurses who pay
attention to the QSEN essentials also develop a safety mindset, monitor situations and scan
their context and environment to take informed actions, and offer mutual support to each
other. Further, the nurses who understand QSEN essentials uphold the spirit of inquiry and
question their actions to ensure that they are either best practice or evidence-based. They
also identify safety issues in clinical environments and are proactive in the prevention of
error. They are capable of fostering continuous quality improvement, address failures in
healthcare systems, and contribute to the development of new processes. The nurses have
higher job satisfaction, longer job retention, and can maintain a healthy work environment
(Sherwood & Zomorodi, 2014). There are no prominent disadvantages of quality and safety
education. However, it is limited by gaps in the healthcare system resulting in lack of
support for development and education, prejudice against advancement of practice and
issues of reduction in workforce (Correa-de-Araujo, 2016).
Maintaining familiarity with the latest research is essential for incorporating quality
and safety education into everyday practice. Pauly-O'Neill and Cooper (2013) cited that
patient care is optimized when nurses have access to the latest research and have the
knowledge, skill, and attitudes (KSAs) necessary to make judgments founded on a