The Institute of Medicine (IOM) has described five core competencies (CCs) required of health professionals to improve professional practice and patient outcomes (IOM, 2003). Quality and Safety Education for Nurses QSEN has expanded these to include knowledge, skills and attitudes (KSAs) that nurses demonstrate in six areas (Cronenwett, et al., 2007):Patient-Centered CareTeamwork and CollaborationEvidence-based PracticeQuality […]

The idea for critical reflection is to encourage you to dig a bit more on a single topic and give it that personal reflection.People are often asked to write about a topic; they then proceed to regurgitate from books or articles about the topic without really learning anything unless it actually relates to their own […]

– The five-paper minimum means five full pages – a cover page does not count as one of these pages, nor does a reference page, and getting a paragraph onto the fifth page does not count as a full page.- You should use double spacing, a common font, and

The first step create a short summary of the article. You may use a PowerPoint slide show, to convey the key information and argument in the article. It does not need to be elaborate, but there should be NO typos. A map or other graphics may be useful. The presentation should take about five to […]

The final paper will be the combination of the four areas. Please see separate file items for each phase specific instructions. Again follow APA style mandates.Paper will be submit it via turn it in.The final submission is basically the combination of the other four phases into one paper. This paper will need to be corrected […]