My Ideology Of The Six Concepts Of QSEN

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My Ideology of the Six Concepts of QSEN
According to QSEN.org (2020), “The Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) project addresses the challenge of preparing future nurses with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes (KSAs) necessary to continuously improve the quality and safety of the healthcare systems within which they work.” Using my clinical experience; I will be discussing various aspects of each of the six concepts of QSEN. These concepts include patient-centered care, quality improvement, Informatics, evidence-based practices, teamwork & collaboration, and Safety. Discover and reflect with me as I evaluate how well the hospitals I went to, Mercy Health Behavior Institute, St. Charles, and Promedica Toledo Hospital, implemented …show more content…

Quality improvement is a concept that I witnessed being embraced by both the Promedica and Mercy health systems. Not only are things constantly changing, being observed, and improving, but they offer extensive teaching, precepting, and job opportunities to students who will potentially be working in their facilities. Both facilities are opening new positions to students that will give them hands-on nursing experience in their off semester. Both facilities have found it beneficial to implement a nurse extern position where nursing students are able to work with and observe an assigned nurse to gain critical thinking skills. I personally took up one of these offers from Toledo Hospital and believe new programs like these promote quality improvement in learning and working in …show more content…

At Toledo Hospital I noticed that the male extern catheters have been completely changed to a new design. Upon further investigation, I found that they have done so by observing and collecting evidence that the old model was doing more harm than good. The old models were very frequently leaking and causing discomfort and skin breakdown from the adhesive as well as the leaking urine that was constantly getting on the patient’s skin. To fix the issue they completely changed the design for external catheters for men and it has been found that application is easy and there is less discomfort and urine leakage from the catheters. From even my own experience this was a great change for the patient and