Quality and safety curricula in nursing education: matching practice realities.
Health care delivery settings are redesigning in the wake of staggering reports of severe quality and safety issues. Sweeping changes underway in health care to address quality and safety outcomes lend urgency to the call to transform nursing curricula so new graduate competencies more closely match practice needs. Emerging views of quality and safety and related competencies as applied in practice have corresponding implications for the redesign of nursing education programs. Nurse executives and nurse educators are called to address the need for faculty development through strategic partnerships.
Sherwood
Gwen
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Nursing, NC 27527, USA. Gwen.sherwood@unc.edu
Drenkard
Karen
K
D003479:Curriculum; D004506:Education, Nursing; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D048108:Nursing Informatics; D018802:Patient-Centered Care; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D017751:Safety Management; D014481:United States