title: Designing nursing excellence through a National Quality Forum nurse scholar program.
abstract: Closing the knowledge gap for current practicing nurses in the Institute of Medicine (IOM) core competencies is critical to providing safe patient care. The National Quality Forum (NQF) nurse scholar program is one organization's journey to close the gap in the IOM core competencies in a large teaching organization. The NQF nurse scholar program is positioned to provide a plan to assist current nurses to accelerate their learning about quality improvement, evidence-based practice, and informatics, 3 of the core competencies identified by the IOM, and focus on application of skills to NQF nurse-sensitive measures. Curriculum outline, educational methodologies, administrative processes, and aims of the project are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, Mayo Clinic Rochester, Minnesota 55905, USA. neumann.julie@mayo.edu
authors.forename: Julie A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Neumann
authors.forename: Katherine A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Brady-Schluttner
authors.forename: Jacqueline M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Attlesey-Pries
authors.forename: Diane M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Twedell
mesh_terms: D003162:Competency-Based Education; D020375:Education, Distance / Q000458:organization & administration; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing; D055318:Evidence-Based Nursing / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D015146:Midwestern United States; D048108:Nursing Informatics / Q000193:education*; D016730:Program Development; D058996:Quality Improvement; D013685:Telecommunications