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Chapter 4: The Process of Educating Nurses (Nursing Schools) • The nurses who graduated from diploma schools were proficient in basic nursing skills and could assume positions in the hospital wher... e they were trained or in home nursing, where they worked on a case-by-case basis without any additional orientation or education. On the job training in the hospital • Because of the 24-hour-a-day, 7-day-a-week socialization process administered by these schools, diploma graduate nurses tended to be very submissive to authority and willing to carry out any duty to please the physician, administrator, or head nurse. Before the advent of licensure examinations and standardization of practice, nurses from diploma schools were often limited to employment in their own training institutions or in home health-care settings. Nursing Programs: What are the 2 degree- granting programs for beginning nurses? ASN degree and BSN degree What are the similarities and differences between the programs? QSEN: • QSEN-Quality and Safety Education of Nurses: A national movement that guides nurses to redesign the “What” and “How” they deliver nursing care to ensure high-quality self-care. Help guided what is being taught it nursing programs • The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation undertook a three-phase project to improve the quality and safety of client care by focusing nursing education on student competency. The project, QSEN, is built on the six competencies developed initially by the IOM. 1. Client-centered care. 2. Teamwork and collaboration. 3. Evidence-based practice (EBP). 4. Quality improvement (QI). 5. Safety. 6. Informatics. Case Management: • As case managers, nurses are responsible for developing clinical pathways and for directing and guiding the overall health care of a specific group of clients. • Case management includes overseeing the clients’ care while they are in the hospital and following them through their rehabilitation at home, long-term follow-up, health-care practices, and developmental stages. • Care management is a general term that refers to a method of coordinating care either with an individual client or on a system-wide basis. • Case management is now a certified specialty; however, there is a lack of qualified nurses trained in case management. Interprofessional Education: • Defined as “two or more students from different professions learning about, from and with each other to enable effective collaboration and improve health outcomes. 1. Values and ethics for interprofessional practice 2. Roles and responsibilities 3. Interprofessional c ..........................................................CONTINUED....................................... [Show More]

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