Strategies for Making QSEN Foundational in Your Curriculum

Today's nursing students need a solid foundation of ongoing exposure to quality and safety concepts. Employing the context of work done by the national initiative Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN), this webinar will focus on early introduction of quality and safety in pre-licensure courses. Participants will leave the webinar with an in-depth understanding of how to level the Knowledge, Skill and Attitude (KSA) elements of the six QSEN competencies in their curricula. Strong emphasis will be placed on identifying resources available to all nursing faculty to effectively incorporate QSEN into their early courses.

NOTE:This webinar is open to everyone including non-members, communities of interest, practice representatives, and AACN member schools including deans, faculty, staff and students

Webinar Speaker

Gail Armstrong, PhD, DNP
Associate Professor
University of Colorado College of Nursing

Dr. Gail Armstrong, PhD, DNP, ACNS-BC, CNE is an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado in the College of Nursing (CON) where she has been on faculty since 2000. More than 12 years of Gail’s nursing practice was in Med/Surg nursing. Gail’s early work in quality and safety was in her Med/Surg practice and focused on tracking and working to improve patient outcomes on her Med/Surg unit (e.g. falls and decubitus ulcers). Gail’s increasing focus in quality and safety began in 2007 with her work in the national initiative, Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN). The University of Colorado CON was an original pilot school in the QSEN initiative. Gail worked on the CU CON leadership team to update CU’s pre-licensure clinical courses to reflect updated quality and safety trends. Currently Gail is on faculty with the Institute for Healthcare Quality, Safety and Efficiency Certificate Training Program on the Anschutz Medical Campus. This twelve-month training program trains interprofessional clinical teams in the areas of systems leadership, process improvement, and patient safety. In her PhD research, Gail studied patient safety and unit level medication error rates. Gail’s scholarship has focused on the integration of updated quality and safety content in nursing curricula and interprofessional collaboration on healthcare teams.