On completion of this module students should be able to:
• Integrate knowledge, skills and understanding of specialist theory to patient care.
• Apply the principles of assessment, diagnosis, planning, intervening, and evaluating
care.
• Use evidence-based tools and related theories to guide nursing practice.
• Disseminate evidence-based knowledge to other colleagues and peers.
• Appreciate a Quality and Patient Safety tool for health professionals to discuss patent
safety and error reporting.
• Demonstrate awareness of importance of professionalism, and individual and collective responsibility for the delivery of high-
quality and safe patient care.
• Demonstrate the importance of a culture of quality and safety that promotes openness and transparency, teamwork,
and effective communication
• Describe key QPS considerations and tools to promote on-going enhancement of quality and safety in healthcare delivery.
• Understand errors and patient harm and demonstrate knowledge of how to apply tools to support identification of factors
contributing to errors and strategies to monitor and address issues.
• Demonstrate competence in the six domains of competence outlined in the Clinical Competence Assessment Tool:
1. Professional values and conduct of the nurse competences 2. Nursing practice and clinical decision-making competences, 3. Knowledge and cognitive competences 4. Communication and inter-personal competences, 5. Management and team competences, 6. Leadership and professional scholarship competences.

Not applicable to this module.

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment

Not yet recorded.