title: Integrating quality and safety competencies into undergraduate nursing using student-designed simulation.
abstract: The purpose of this study was to determine whether an innovative teaching approach, a student-led simulation, was effective in increasing students' quality and safety knowledge, skills, and attitudes in the six Quality and Safety Education for Nurses competency areas. The sample included students (N = 141) enrolled in a traditional and accelerated leadership course in the baccalaureate-nursing program at a midwestern public university during the fall 2009 semester. A quasi-experimental pretest and posttest design was used. Paired-samples t tests were used to analyze the data. Overall scores on the self-inventory in the traditional (p < 0.001) and accelerated (p = 0.011) groups significantly increased. Knowledge and safety test scores in both the traditional (knowledge: p < .001; safety: p = 0.028) and accelerated (knowledge: p = 0.027; safety: p = 0.03) groups increased significantly. The innovation significantly improved students' self-efficacy and knowledge related to the quality and safety competencies.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, Oakland University, Rochester, MI 48309, USA. piscotty@oakland.edu
authors.forename: Ronald
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Piscotty
authors.forename: Claudia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Grobbel
authors.forename: Huey-Ming
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Tzeng
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000379:methods*; D004521:Educational Measurement; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015146:Midwestern United States; D016544:Patient Simulation; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D017751:Safety Management; D014743:Videotape Recording