Cronenwett et al. (2007) suggested a framework
of six nurse competencies for Quality and Safety Education for
Nurses (QSEN) to be included in all pre-licensure nursing programs.
The six competency domains include: patient-centred care, evidencebased
practice, quality improvement, informatics, patient safety, and
teamwork and collaboration (Cronenwett et al., 2007). In each of
these competency domains, there were proposed statements of the
knowledge, skills, and attitudes (KSAs) for each competency that should
be developed during pre-licensure nursing education, and more discussion
on these statements can be found elsewhere.1 Many schools
of nursing have started to align their nursing curricula with the sixcompetency
QESN framework (DeBourgh, 2012