Topic outline

  • Graduate Level QSEN Competencies - American Association of Colleges of Nursing - Sept 2012

    Per AACN - In order to accomplish the first goal, AACN convened a panel of experts in the field of quality and safety education and graduate-level practice as well as representatives of key stakeholder organizations. This advisory group reviewed the existing QSEN graduate competencies, as well as AACN’s recently revised Essentials of Master’s Education in Nursing (2011), to determine the competencies that graduate-prepared nurses must possess to meet contemporary care standards.

  • The Essentials of Master's Education in Nursing, American Association of Colleges of Nursing

    Per AACN -
    The Essentials of Master’s Education in Nursing reflect the profession’s continuing call for imagination, transformative thinking, and evolutionary change in graduate education. The extraordinary explosion of knowledge, expanding technologies, increasing diversity, and global health challenges produce a dynamic environment for nursing and amplify nursing’s critical contributions to health care. Master’s education prepares nurses for flexible leadership and critical action within complex, changing systems, including health, educational, and organizational systems.