title: Enhancing quality and safety competency development at the unit level: an initial evaluation of student learning and clinical teaching on dedicated education units.
abstract: The need to attend to quality and safety competency development, increase capacity in nursing education programs, address the faculty and nursing shortages, and find new ways to keep step with an ever-changing health care environment has brought forth numerous creative curricular responses and collaborative efforts. To tackle these multiple needs and challenges simultaneously, a new academic-service partnership was created to collaboratively develop an innovative clinical education delivery model. The designed dedicated education unit model not only promoted student learning about quality and safety competencies via unit-based projects but also supported quality improvements in nursing care delivery. Following the initial semester of the model's implementation, a pilot study was conducted. The findings generated the evidence required to take this innovation to the next level. Moreover, the education-practice partnership, which was created to implement the clinical education delivery model, was strengthened as a result of this preliminary evaluation.
authors.affiliation: University of Massachusetts Boston, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Boston 02125, MA, USA. joann.mulreadyshick@umb.edu
authors.forename: Joann
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mulready-Shick
authors.forename: Kathleen W
authors.initials: KW
authors.lastname: Kafel
authors.forename: Gaurdia
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Banister
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Mylott
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003162:Competency-Based Education / Q000379:methods*; D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D017144:Focus Groups; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D017145:Models, Educational; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D017751:Safety Management; D014481:United States