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June 25-27, 2008
Oak Brook Terrace, IL
A series of national commissions have documented significant problems related to patient safety and quality in the US health care system. In light of these problems, the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) project, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, is committed to addressing the challenge of preparing nurses with the competencies necessary to continuously improve the quality and safety of the health care systems in which they work.
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) has recommended that all health care professionals be educated in the delivery of patient-centered care and function as members of an interdisciplinary team. To this end, the QSEN faculty members have adopted the Institute of Medicine's competencies for nursing. In addition to patient-centered care, these competencies include teamwork and collaboration, evidenced-based practice, quality improvement, safety, and informatics as the foundation for developing a clinical microsystems approach to nursing education.
The purpose of this seminar will be to build collaborative relationships between academic and clinical practice partners committed to creating a system of experiential learning based innovations of the microsystems design model. Such learning integrates knowledge domains and teaching techniques that result in better patient outcomes, improved system performance and transforms professional learning theory into safe, practical application. The program focus is to move clinical and academic partnerships from theory to practical application during the practicum experience. Case studies related to best practices in partnership development will be highlighted during this program.
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