Note: We recommend that you complete the team assignment first so that you will be better prepared to complete this week’s individual assignment.
You are working on a committee of nurse educators at the Ratched School of Nursing where you have been directed to create a course promoting quality and safety for all prelicensure BSN students. The course will focus on promoting the incorporation of the 6 QSEN competencies (patient-centered care, teamwork and collaboration, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, safety, and informatics) into daily nursing practice.
Ratched School of Nursing Information
The school is accredited by CCNE.Philosophical StatementThe School Philosophical Framework focuses on lifelong learning, skills, knowledge, and attitudes that are demonstrated by proficient and effective nurse leaders. Effective nurse leaders, in all settings, are the core to promoting health, leading health care change, and advancing the profession.
Mission StatementThe College of Nursing will promote and nurture leadership for nursing students through the development and delivery of educational opportunities that embody the value of caring, excellence in practice, and leadership in the nursing profession.
VisionThe purpose of the College of Nursing is to educate students in professional educational programs at the graduate and undergraduate levels that advance the profession of nursing. This will be achieved through a systematic delivery of programs that focus on student experiences that enhance students’ lives through lifelong learning, professional practice, leadership, scholarship, safe patient-centered care, caring, and interprofessional collaboration to improve the health outcomes of the communities served.
ValuesLeadership, Scholarship, Professional Practice, Interprofessional Collaboration, Safe Patient-Centered Care, Caring
Program Student Learning Outcomes
- Students will integrate ethical values, ethical reasoning, and respect for cultural diversity in safe patient-centered health care delivery and practice in a variety of health care settings.
- Students will apply theories, knowledge, and the nursing process to provide safe patient-centered care in a variety of health care settings.
- Students will apply health promotion and disease management principles that integrate evidence-based nursing knowledge to ensure safe patient-centered care.
- Students will integrate professional nursing leadership roles as designer, manager, and coordinator of safe patient-centered care in a variety of health care settings.
- Students will use health care equipment, technology, communication devices, and information systems to provide safe patient-centered care in a variety of health care settings.
- Students will analyze the effect of health care policy, regulatory, legal, economic, and sociocultural environments on health care delivery and practice in a variety of health care settings.
- Students will integrate professional role as educator in health care delivery and practice in a variety of health care settings.
Assignment Instructions
Research QSEN competencies and what prelicensure BSN students should know regarding them.
Conduct a learning needs assessment, which includes:
Write learning objectives for this course. Consider the following as you create the learning objectives:
- SMART goal guidelines
- The school’s philosophy, mission statement, vision, and values
- State- and program-specific accreditation requirements
- Industry standards
- BSN competencies
Show the following in a matrix, concept map, or paper:
- How the objectives align to the school’s philosophy, mission statement, vision, values, and program student learning outcomes
- How the objectives align to accreditation requirements, industry standards, and professional competencies
- Rationale for the prioritization of the objectives
Cite a minimum of 2 sources in an APA-formatted reference page.
Submit the learning objectives; the concept map, matrix, or paper; and reference page.
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