Integration of Quality and Safety Education for Nurses Into Practice: Academic-Practice Partnership's Role.

There is a trend to adopt the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) competencies into nursing practice's organizational activities. Incorporating the competencies has created unique challenges for the practice setting. The purpose of this article is to identify the different types of academic-practice partnerships that promote quality and safety, including a specific focus on how the QSEN competencies are being incorporated into practice settings.

Pathways to BSN Education: Teamwork in Ohio.

Aim: The Ohio Action Coalition was formed to address the key recommendations of the Institute of Medicine's Future of Nursing report.

Background: The Future of Nursing Campaign for Action is a national initiative to guide implementation of the recommendations in the Future of Nursing report.

Method: Through statewide meetings, leaders from nursing education and practice adopted a statewide competency model.

Academic/Clinical partnership and collaboration in Quality and Safety Education for Nurses education.

The Institute of Medicine and the Carnegie Foundation for Health Education have called for significant changes in nursing education to reduce medical errors and improve health outcomes. In response to this call, a small private Catholic university undertook an innovative bachelor of science in nursing curriculum revision based in large part on the competencies described by the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) initiative. Part of the curriculum revision involved an innovative model of clinical education.