title: Fundamentally updating fundamentals.
abstract: Recent educational research indicates that the six competencies of the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses initiative are best introduced in early prelicensure clinical courses. Content specific to quality and safety has traditionally been covered in senior level courses. This article illustrates an effective approach to using quality and safety as an organizing framework for any prelicensure fundamentals of nursing course. Providing prelicensure students a strong foundation in quality and safety in an introductory clinical course facilitates early adoption of quality and safety competencies as core practice values.
authors.affiliation: University of Colorado College of Nursing, Aurora, CO 80045, USA. gail.armstrong@ucdenver.edu
authors.forename: Gail
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Armstrong
authors.forename: Amy
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Barton
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D003479:Curriculum; D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D061214:Patient Safety; D011787:Quality of Health Care