Synthesis Of QSEN

Synthesis of the Literature

According to Pollard et al. (2014), The purpose of this study was to determine the degree of integration of QSEN competencies and learning strategies in nursing programs in New York State. The implementation of (QSEN) in nursing programs is the most important because it guides teaching future nursing professionals to raise the quality and safety of health services.

Another idea by, Jang, & Lee, (2017), was to evaluate nursing educators’ competencies and educational needs for patient safety in hospitals and nursing schools. They say that educational needs of “medication” and “infection prevention” as being higher and “human factors” and “complexity of systems” as being lower. When nurses have the knowledge and skills to work in an emergency room, they know the priorities and the steps to take in different situations, decreasing the risk of complications for patients. Nursing educators want different types of education for patient safety. Education cannot be only theory; it also must go hand in hand with clinical practice.

For example, if the nurses had made opportune and adequate treatment in the emergency service, the patient would not have presented complications, and therefore the life of the patient would not have been put at risk, and the cost would have