The document outlines six QSEN competencies essential for nursing: patient-centered care, teamwork and collaboration, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, safety, and informatics. It emphasizes the importance of respecting patient values and preferences while ensuring effective communication and collaboration among healthcare teams. Additionally, it highlights the need for continuous quality improvement using data-driven approaches to enhance patient safety and care outcomes.

1. 6 QSEN Competencies
in Nursing

2. Nurses need to acknowledge patients or
designees as partners in providing
compassionate care based on respect for
patient preferences, values, and needs.
Patient-Centered Care

3. This ensures nurses function effectively
within nursing and interprofessional teams
with open communication and respect to
ensure optimal patient care.
Teamwork & Collaboration

4. This enables nurses to employ the best
current evidence, coupled with their clinical
expertise and patient/family preferences and
values for quality healthcare.
Evidence-Based Practice

5. Healthcare is always evolving. Nurses need
to use data to monitor patients’ outcomes
and to implement processes to design and
test changes to continuously improve health
care systems’ quality and safety.
Quality Improvement

6. This competency aims to minimize the risk of
harm to both patients and providers through
an effective system and individual nurse
care.
Safety

7. Nurses need to use information and
technology to communicate effectively,
mitigate errors, and enable good decision-
making.
Informatics