QSEN Core Competency
The nursing practice is a complex and continuously changing profession. It’s dedication to providing excellence patient center care, improving the quality of life for all patients, and upholding patients’ rights. As a new graduate nurse, it can be hard to transition into such a field, and you may find it to be overwhelming and difficult to meet the demands of the patient and workplace. As a new graduate nurse transitioning into the nursing practice, the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) six core and five Institute of Medicine (IOM) core competencies are tools and guidelines that can be used to support you in transitioning into the nursing practice.
The QSEN six core competencies was developed to provide a means to meet the challenges …show more content…
This core competence explains how it teamwork and collaboration functions effectively within the nursing and other team members, fostering open communication, mutual respect and shared decision making to achieve quality patient care. Teamwork and collaboration is what nursing are all about. It is important to be a good team player and help your fellow nurses. It is also important to collaborate with other team members, to be all on the same page about what the plan of care will be and what is going on with the patient from different standpoints. Collaborating is a must in the nursing practice, as a nurse, you collaborate with the doctors about the plan of care and orders, with pharmacy about medications and doses recommended, with physical and occupation therapy, and so many other team members. As my nursing leader discussed, teamwork essential, and when unsure ask your fellow nurse for clarification, instead of jeopardizing the patient safety. Nurses help make safe and efficient decisions regarding the patient needs preferences and values. Communication is a key aspect to providing safe and effective care especially in nursing and with other inter-professional team …show more content…
But they found that these methods do not ensure that new graduate nurses will have a successful transition and reduced anxiety to fully interact with their new environment. In this article, Boehm and Tse, discuss how the transition into the nursing practice can cause anxiety, reality shock and moderate to severe stress, which can be a hinders nurses in providing safe and effective patient care. And a way to help new graduate nurse transition and learning needs from qualitative research conducted in a community-based novice nurse transition program. The new graduate nurse transition and learning needs are examined through new graduates and the nursing leaders and preceptors who work with them. One piece of advice my nurse leader would give to the novice nurses to help them transition and succeed in the first year nurses would be to have a safe nursing practice, she tells this to all the new nurses that come to her unit. What this means is 1) always ask yourself if I’m sure and practicing safe nursing because learning is a working progress every day. 2) Always safe guard your patient, 3) follow the 5 rights of medication administration, 4) practice visual assessment and do not rely on the monitors all the time and if you practice safe nursing, safe guarding your patient, thereby you as a nurse safe
The QSEN six core competencies was developed to provide a means to meet the challenges …show more content…
This core competence explains how it teamwork and collaboration functions effectively within the nursing and other team members, fostering open communication, mutual respect and shared decision making to achieve quality patient care. Teamwork and collaboration is what nursing are all about. It is important to be a good team player and help your fellow nurses. It is also important to collaborate with other team members, to be all on the same page about what the plan of care will be and what is going on with the patient from different standpoints. Collaborating is a must in the nursing practice, as a nurse, you collaborate with the doctors about the plan of care and orders, with pharmacy about medications and doses recommended, with physical and occupation therapy, and so many other team members. As my nursing leader discussed, teamwork essential, and when unsure ask your fellow nurse for clarification, instead of jeopardizing the patient safety. Nurses help make safe and efficient decisions regarding the patient needs preferences and values. Communication is a key aspect to providing safe and effective care especially in nursing and with other inter-professional team …show more content…
But they found that these methods do not ensure that new graduate nurses will have a successful transition and reduced anxiety to fully interact with their new environment. In this article, Boehm and Tse, discuss how the transition into the nursing practice can cause anxiety, reality shock and moderate to severe stress, which can be a hinders nurses in providing safe and effective patient care. And a way to help new graduate nurse transition and learning needs from qualitative research conducted in a community-based novice nurse transition program. The new graduate nurse transition and learning needs are examined through new graduates and the nursing leaders and preceptors who work with them. One piece of advice my nurse leader would give to the novice nurses to help them transition and succeed in the first year nurses would be to have a safe nursing practice, she tells this to all the new nurses that come to her unit. What this means is 1) always ask yourself if I’m sure and practicing safe nursing because learning is a working progress every day. 2) Always safe guard your patient, 3) follow the 5 rights of medication administration, 4) practice visual assessment and do not rely on the monitors all the time and if you practice safe nursing, safe guarding your patient, thereby you as a nurse safe