Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) Project

Group Capstone Clinical Integration Project for Quality Improvement

Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) Project

Purpose:

            The purpose of the Group Capstone Clinical Integration Project for Quality Improvement is to identify and analyze a nursing or patient care concern, issue or challenge experienced in the clinical setting in relation to one or more QSEN competencies and the implications for nursing practice.

General Guidelines:

• This is a group project that includes a professionally prepared PowerPoint. Refer to syllabus/schedule for due date.
• Groups must email instructor prior to starting project for topic approval. QSEN Change Project TOPIC
• Communication via group members may be done to each groups' preference (i.e. course mail, knights mail, google docs. etc.).
• The project will be graded by the instructor and the grade shared by all members of the project team.
• All projects are realistic and require plausible solutions. References are from multiple current sources must be used to support project.
• Participation is obligatory for the project.

General Outline:

• Background and significance of health care concern
  • Conduct a literature review about the problem 
    • Why is this such a big problem?
    • What is the significance of the problem?
    • What is the current research?
• Identification of one or more of the QSEN competencies referring to the specific knowledge, skills, or attitudes and behaviors. The competencies are:QSEN_Competencies.doc
• Patient-centered Care
• Teamwork and Collaboration
• Evidence-based Practice
• Quality Improvement
• Safety
• Informatics
• Analyze the significance of the health care concern for nursing practice in relation to one or more QSEN competencies from different perspectives
  • What and why is it important to explore this concern or issue?
• Identification and synopsis of a case exemplar
  • This can be one found in the research or personal example
• Synthesize the nursing implications from recent literature to the specific health care or nursing concern
  • Include implications:
    • Practice
      • What did you conclude was the best or preferred nursing practice for this concern providing justification and evidence?
    • Education
      • What are the current guidelines for educating staff about patient care or nursing practice related to this concern or issue providing justification and evidence?
    • Research
      • What are the priorities for further study from a nursing clinical or professional perspectives?
• References  -- Citations must appear at the bottom of every slide if borrowed content is used or it is considered to be plagiarism.

Methods:

1. After team collaboration and discussion, each group will identify a critical health care safety concern.
2. Using an agreed upon case exemplar the students will use one or more of the QSEN competencies and determine the nursing implications regarding nursing practice, education, and research.
3. The topic must be submitted to the instructor via email for approval before beginning the project.
4. Once approved, the team will complete a PowerPoint presentation including all pertinent information and submit it by the due date.
5. Follow the guidelines and rubric to ensure all pieces of the PowerPoint presentation are complete.
6. Refer to the examples and rubric for this presentation.

QSEN SAMPLE project

QSEN SAMPLE project 2

Additional ideas:

• Compassion fatigue
• Nurse Turnover
• Teamwork
• Handoff
• Nurse-patient ratios/Nurse Workload and Patient Safety
• Healthcare Associated Infections
• Reducing Medication errors
• Catheter Associated Urinary Track Infections CAUTI’s Central Line Catheter Associated Blood Stream Infections CLABSI
• Ventilator Associated Pneumonia (VAP)
• Falls and Falls with Injuries
• Pressure Ulcer
• PP hemorrhage
• Chlorhexidine gluconate use in the OR
• Healthcare associated infections
• Heart Failure
• Electronic Health Record
• AMI