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QSEN – Quality and Safety Education in Nursing: Competency-Based Questions with Accurate Answers (KSAs Framework)

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This document contains a detailed set of questions and correct answers based on the QSEN (Quality and Safety Education for Nurses) initiative, focusing on the six core competencies: Patient-Centered Care, Teamwork & Collaboration, Evidence-Based Practice, Quality Improvement, Safety, and Informatics. Each competency is addressed through its corresponding Knowledge, Skills, and Attitudes (KSAs), with practical applications related to error prevention, patient care, communication, research ethics, clinical technology use, and quality enhancement strategies.

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QSEN: Quality and Safety Education in Nursing
questions with accurate answers
(Safety) Communication: Attitudes Ans🗸🗸🗸 Value own role in
preventing errors


(Safety) Communication: Knowledge Ans🗸🗸🗸 -Delineate general
categories of errors and hazards in care.
-Describe factors that create a culture of safety (such as, open
communication strategies and organizational error reporting systems).


(Safety) Communication: Skills Ans🗸🗸🗸 -Communicate observations
or concerns related to hazards and errors to patients, families, and the
health care team.
-Use organizational error reporting systems for near miss and error
reporting.


(Safety) Dealing with Technology: Attitudes Ans🗸🗸🗸 -Value the
contributions of standardizations/reliability to safety.
-Appreciate the cognitive and physical limits of human performance.


(Safety) Dealing with Technology: Knowledge Ans🗸🗸🗸 -Examine
human factors and other basic safety design principles as well as
commonly used unsafe practices (such as: work-arounds and dangerous
abbreviations).

, -Describe the benefits and limitations of selected safety-enhancing
technologies (such as: barcodes, Computer Provider Order Entry,
medication pumps, and automatic alerts/alarms).


(Safety) Dealing with Technology: Skills Ans🗸🗸🗸 Demonstrate
effective use of technology and standardized practices that support
safety and quality.
Demonstrate effective use of strategies to reduce risk of harm to self or
others


(Safety) Human Error: Attitude Ans🗸🗸🗸 Value vigilance and
monitoring (even of own performance of care activities) by patients,
families, and other members of the health care team.


(Safety) Human Error: Knowledge Ans🗸🗸🗸 Describe processes used in
understanding causes of error and allocation of responsibility and
accountability.


(Safety) Human Error: Skills Ans🗸🗸🗸 -Participate appropriately in
analyzing errors and designing system improvement.
-Engage in root cause analysis rather than blaming when errors or near
misses occur.


(Teamwork and Collaborative)
Intermediate Ans🗸🗸🗸 Of the Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced
Competency Level, teamwork and collaboration is _____________

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