This course prepares nurses to engage in quality and safety initiatives in healthcare and practice settings.

Students use knowledge from biological sciences, social sciences, physical sciences, and humanities to develop skill in improving the quality and safety in health care delivery, ultimately improving health care outcomes for diverse individuals, groups and communities with consideration given to healthcare disparities.

Students will learn the value of systems thinking with a focus on teamwork and collaboration, quality improvement, safety, healthcare standards, and informatics for improving outcomes in health care settings.

Students will complete 16 hours of clinical practice experience. A quality improvement project will be identified during this course as the foundation for the capstone project.