This movement toward a restructuration of the patient’s care process had led to the incorporation of the Core Competencies and Standards of Quality into their curricula and most of the nursing programs are currently in the process of change. The objective of this curricular redesign is to ensure that the nurses of the future fulfill the requirements necessary to perform a quality care (AACN, …show more content…
In first place, the average age of the nursing workforce was 47 years in 2008 and expected to be 44.5 years by 2012, which leads to the consideration that twenty years ago Quality Improvement was not within the core competencies of the nursing practice and curricula (AACN, 2012a). As a result, this group of nurses within the healthcare system and actively practicing may lack of knowledge, skills, and attitude to completely engage the Quality Improvement required