Taking a “Deep Dive” on Integrating QSEN Content in San Francisco Bay Area Schools of Nursing

While the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) initiative launched a national movement to improve the education of prelicensure nursing students, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation funded a series of activities in California over 4 years (2009–2013) to support the implementation and evaluation of the impact of incorporating the QSEN content into nursing curricula in 22 schools of nursing in the San Francisco Bay Area. The purpose of this article is to describe this work, which included a series of workshops for faculty and clinical leaders, support for curricular revision and academic–clinical partnerships, a longitudinal evaluation of the impact of incorporating the QSEN competencies into these schools of nursing, and a set of “deep dives” in a subset of these schools through on-site visits. Early results show that the Moore Foundation initiative is making a difference. The majority of schools have instituted many of the knowledge, skills, and attitudes for the 6 competencies; significant curricular change is occurring; and academic–clinical partnerships have been strengthened.