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Mary A Dolansky1, Tracey Dick, Elizabeth Byrd
1Author Affiliations: Associate Professor (Dr Dolansky), Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing and School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio; and Assistant Professor (Dr Dick), Assistant Professor (Dr Byrd), Professor (Dr Miltner), and Assistant Professor (Dr Layton), University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing, Birmingham.
Background:
For the last 17 years, the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) prelicensure competencies and knowledge, skill, and attitude (KSA) statements were integrated into nursing curricula.
Problem:
With the publication of the competency-based American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) Essentials , it is important to determine the overlap of the QSEN competencies.
Approach:
We developed a QSEN-AACN prelicensure crosswalk to help faculty map and integrate the 2021 AACN Essentials into their curriculum.
Outcomes:
The 6 QSEN competencies match to the 10 AACN Essentials domains except for evidence-based practice, which is listed as a concept. Fifty graduate-level QSEN KSAs were found to better align with prelicensure education and therefore important to integrate into the crosswalk. All but 1 of the original prelicensure QSEN KSA statements and all but 2 of the 50 transferred graduate-level QSEN KSAs were found in the AACN Essentials .
Conclusion:
Faculty implementing the QSEN framework can use the QSEN-AACN competency crosswalk and QSEN teaching strategies to guide their AACN Essentials journey.
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