Introduction to Quality and Safety Education for Nurses: Core Competencies

Patricia Kelly, MSN, RN, is Professor Emeritus, Purdue University Calumet, USA. She currently teaches nationwide NCLEX-RN review courses for Evolve Testing and Remediation/Health Education Systems, Inc., Houston, TX. Ms. Kelly was Director of Quality Improvement at the University of Chicago Hospitals and Clinics and Program Director of the Associate Degree Nursing Program and Faculty at Purdue University. She has served on the Board of Directors of Tri City Mental Health Center, St. Anthony's Home, and the Mosby Quality Connection. Ms. Kelly has worked as a staff nurse, school nurse, and nurse educator and has taught at conferences for The Joint Commission, Resource Applications, Pediatric Concepts, and Kaplan, Inc. in the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico. She is the Editor of Nursing Leadership and Management, Co-Editor of Essentials of Nursing Leadership and Management, and Nursing Delegation, Setting Priorities, and Making Patient Care Assignments. She has also contributed several book chapters and published numerous articles, including ""Chest X-Ray Interpretation,"" and many articles on quality improvement. Ms. Kelly is listed in Who's Who in American Nursing, Notable American Women, and the International Who's Who of Professional and Business Women.

Beth Vottero, PhD, RN, CNE, is Assistant Professor of Nursing at Purdue University Calumet, USA and a Research Associate with the Indiana Center for Evidence-Based Practice in Hammond, Indiana, a Joanna Briggs Institute Collaborating Center. She coordinated and led a successful Magnet redesignation for IU Health La Porte Hospital in La Porte, IN and co-created a course at Purdue University Calumet focused on quality and safety in health care. Dr. Vottero also completed a systematic review that was translated into a Best Practice Information Sheet for the Joanna Briggs Institute and assisted in developing an Evidence-Based Practice Fellowship program at Purdue University Calumet. She has published chapters on topics such as Systems for Evidence Based Practice in Introduction to Evidence-Based Practice: A Practical Guide for Nurses; E-Learning Assessment in Essentials of E-Learning for Nurse Educators; and has developed case studies for Nursing Today: Transitions and Trends. She has presented on topics concerning informatics at the undergraduate and graduate levels and was the keynote speaker on the Social Obligation for Evidence-Based Practice at the 2011 Evidence-Based Nursing Practice Conference. As a funded researcher through Purdue University, she has studied factors affecting medication errors in the clinical setting. Currently, Dr. Vottero is completing a study on the effects of interruptions on medication error rates.

Carolyn Christie-McAuliffe, PhD, FNP, is Associate Professor of Nursing at Keuka College, Keuka Park, NY, USA and Co-PI of a National Institutes of Health (NIH)/National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) R01 grant through the University of Rochester on preventing chemotherapy-induced nausea. In addition, she is in independent practice as a Nurse Practitioner in Syracuse, NY, providing primary care. Her clinical experience has included staff nursing, home health care, oncology care, and private practice. She has functioned as an administrator primarily in clinical research and taught at the undergraduate and graduate nursing level at Crouse-Irving Memorial Hospital School of Nursing, Syracuse, NY; The College of Notre Dame of Maryland, Baltimore, MD; SUNY Institute of Technology, Utica, NY; and Keuka College, Keuka Park, NY. She has implemented multiple Evidence-Based Practice and Quality Assurance programs and served as a Compliance Officer and Institutional Review Board Chair at SUNY Institute of Technology. Dr. McAuliffe's research interests have focused on primary prevention while the majority of her publications and speaking engagements have centered on topics of research, evidence-based practice, and leadership.