La Salle University Undergraduate Nursing Programs

1. La Salle UniversityUndergraduate Nursing Programs Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN)

2. Project Team • Zane Robinson Wolf, PhD, RN, FAAN • Geralyn Altmiller, EdD, MSN, RN, CCRN • Patricia Bicknell, EdD(c), MSN, RN, APRN-BC

3. Project Title • Mitigating Risk: Infusing Safety Across the Curriculum • Simulations: high to low fidelity • Classroom: unfolding case studies • Learning Resource Center: simulations • Clinical Agency: Medication reconciliation • Blackboard: Faculty Resource • Patient Safety Test (Piloted) • Dissemination (article submitted): Nursing Student Medication Errors involving Tubing and Catheters • Faculty Folder

4. Blackboard: Faculty Resource • Dissemination strategy • Elements • AHRQ Glossary of Safety and Quality-Related Terms • Safety Resources: Books and Videos • Web Links • SBAR Tools • Teaching Strategies matched with courses

5. Blackboard: Faculty Resource • AHRQ Glossary of Safety and Quality-Related Terms • http://www.webmm.ahrq.gov/glossary.aspx

6. Blackboard: Faculty Resource • Safety Resources: Books and Videos • Videos: Decreasing Medication Errors; Things Your Should Know Before Entering the Hospital; First, Do No Harm, Parts 1, 2, and 3; SBAR: Staff Training for Improved Communication; Patient Safety: Lighting the Way • Books: Preventing Medication Errors; Patient Safety: Achieving a New Standard of Care; Medication Errors; Keeping Patients Safe: Transforming the Work Environment of Nurses; Health Professions Education

7. Blackboard: Faculty Resource • Web Links • QSEN Web site • National Patient Safety Foundation • AHRQ • Joint Commission • Institute for Safe Medication practices • ECRI Institute • World Health Organization

8. Blackboard: Faculty Resource • Web Links • WebM& M: Morbidity & Mortality Rounds on the Web • U.S. food and Drug Administration • U.S. Pharmacopeia • American Society of Medication Safety Officers • IGuard • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

9. Blackboard: Faculty Resource • Web Links • Fall Prevention Center of Excellence • National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel • U/S. Ford and Drug Administration, Center for Devices and Radiological Health (MAUDE) • Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting Systems (VAERS)

10. Blackboard: Faculty Resource • Web Links • National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance System (NNIS) • National Center for Health Statistics • CBER Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research

11. Blackboard: Faculty Resource • Other Elements • Clinical Microsystem Presentation (Slides) • SBAR Resources

12. Blackboard: Faculty Resource • Teaching Strategies matched with courses • NUR 307: Improving Hospital Care for Surgical Patients (Unfolding Case Study: Class) • NUR 316: Caring for Patient with Prostate Disease (Unfolding Case Study: Class) • NUR 405: Pediatric Simulation and Unfolding Case Study (Lab, Simulation)

13. Teaching Strategies matched with courses • NUR 412: Delivering Safe Care to an Adult with COPD (Lab, Simulation) • NUR 408: QSEN Research Article Critique Exam on Safety Study including Example Test (Exam) • NUR 411: Public Health Disaster Drill (Lab, Simulation)

14. Blackboard: Faculty Resource • Teaching Strategies matched with courses • NUR 409/416: Medication Reconciliation (Clinical, Acute Care) • NUR 409/416: Care of Patient with Pancreatitis (Class, Unfolding Case Study)

15. Blackboard: Faculty Resource • Teaching Strategies matched with courses • More QSEN-based strategies to be added to the remainder of courses