Renowned Leader Helps Improve Health Care Quality and Safety by Transforming Nursing Education
Posted 8/8/2011
RWJF program director Linda Cronenwett leads project to help faculty prepare new nurses to continuously improve the safety and reliability of health care systems
To deliver the care patients want and need without the alarming number of failures in the nation's increasingly complex health care systems, today's nurses need to know how to provide individual patient care—but they also need to know how to contribute effectively to creating and improving the systems of care in which they work. Nursing schools excel at teaching students to provide safe, high quality patient care to individuals. But until recently, the education of new nurses has included only minimal learning related to competencies that prepare them for their roles in creating safe, reliable, patient-centered and evidence-based systems of care.
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