QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | 2026 UPDATE | 100% CORRECT
Quality, Safety, and Education in Nursing (QSEN) Answer - The overall goal is to
meet the challenge of preparing future nurses who will have the knowledge,
skills and attitudes (KSAs) necessary to continuously improve the quality and
safety of the healthcare systems within which they work.
The 6 competencies
of Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes Answer - 1. Patient-Centered Care
2. Teamwork and Collaboration
3. Evidence Based Practice
4. Quality Improvement
5. Safety
6. Informatics
Patient Centered Care Answer - "Recognize the patient or designee as the
source of control and full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated
care based on respect for patient's preferences, values, and needs."
Patient Centered Care: Knowledge Answer - -*Understand* complex dynamics
of patient centered care.
-Describe the main points of communication.
-Determine and describe how to improve health care for the patient.
, Patient Centered Care: Skill Answer - -Applying your knowledge.
-*Draw out* expectations and needs of patient/family and treat accordingly.
-Assess levels of pain and comfort.
-*Engage/encourage* patients/family in "active partnerships" that promote
health, well-being, and self-care management.
- Communicate effectively with team members when transitioning care.
Patient Centered Care: Attitude Answer - -"Seeing health care situations
through the patients eyes".
-"*Willingly support* patient-centered care for individuals and groups whose
values differ from own".
-Take the situation you encounter and learn from it, seek improvement.
Teamwork and Collaborative Answer - "Function effectively within nursing and
inter-professional teams,fostering open communication, mutual respect and
shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care."
(Teamwork and Collaborative)
QSEN addresses the Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes needed to... Answer
- ...ensure quality, safety and patient care when a nurse is on a team or
involved in a collaboration
(Teamwork and Collaborative)
Intermediate Answer - Of the Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced
Competency Level, teamwork and collaboration is _____________
Teamwork and Collaborative: Knowledge-when in a work team, each should
know Answer - -Strengths and limitations
-Values of functioning as a member of the team