We live in exciting times. As nurses, we are participants in a time of tremendous change in nursing and in healthcare.Massachusetts (MA) Department of Higher Education, in coordination with nurses from Massachusetts nursing practice and education settings, developed the framework for professional nursing called the Nurse of the Future (NOF) Nursing Core Competencies (NCC).
Now that you have examined the Nurse of the Future Nursing Core Competencies, why do you think that these competencies were selected? Which 2 of the 10 competencies will be most important to your future nursing practice and why?We live in exciting times. As nurses, we are participants in a time of tremendous change in nursing and in healthcare.Massachusetts (MA) Department of Higher Education, in coordination with nurses from Massachusetts nursing practice and education settings, developed the framework for professional nursing called the Nurse of the Future (NOF) Nursing Core Competencies (NCC). Their work began in 2006 with completion of the model in 2010. Work continues today on this important document and model (Massachusetts Department of Higher Education).The Nurse of the Future Nursing Core Competencies Model includes the following competencies.Patient-centered care
Professionalism
Informatics and technology
Evidence-based practice (EBP)
Leadership
Systems-based practice
Safety
Communication
Teamwork and collaboration
Quality improvement
(Massachusetts Department of Higher Education, 2010, p. 4).We will consider each of these competencies during NR351. These form the foundation for the remaining courses.The QSEN Institute is another set of competencies for the nursing profession. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has funded quality and safety education for nurses (known as QSEN) since 2005, in response to the Institute of Medicine\’s recommendations for physicians and healthcare (Hood, 2014). QSEN aims to “address the challenge of preparing future nurses with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes (KSAs) necessary to continuously improve the quality and safety of the healthcare systems within which they work\” (QSEN Institute, 2014, \”About QSEN: Project overview,\” para. 1).QSEN KSAs specific to the prelicensure nurse or the graduate nurse include the following.Patient-centered care
Teamwork and collaboration
Evidence-based practice (EBP)
Quality improvement (QI)
Safety
Informatics
(QSEN Institute, 2014, “Competencies,\” para. 1)You may want to go to https://qsen.org/, and explore this website for further information regarding this important initiative in nursing today.
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