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Linda R. Cronenwett, PhD, RN, FAAN, and Jane Barnsteiner, PhD, RN, FAAN

As I was writing this chapter, a colleague sent an email saying, “I’ve been doing grant reviews for HRSA [US Health Resources and Services Administration], and half or more of the applications cite QSEN [Quality and Safety Education for Nurses] competencies or QSEN work as part of their justification.” Two textbook authors inquired about permission to reprint QSEN materials. A visiting scholar from Sweden reported that QSEN is being used as the framework for action for nursing in Sweden this year. Medical colleagues set up a conference call to talk about what they could learn from QSEN to apply to a national initiative on interprofessional education. The number of forum paper and poster presentations doubled from 2010 to 2011.

QSEN is an initiative that has been funded since 2005 by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). The purpose of this chapter is to posit answers to the questions often asked of those of us who have been involved in leading QSEN: namely, how did QSEN come to be and what do you think accounts for the extent of its spread and impact? A summary of aims and activities for the first three QSEN grants is provided in Figures 3.1 and 3.2 . Further information about QSEN outcomes is reported elsewhere, for example for QSEN Phase I (Cronenwett et al., 2007 ; Smith, Cronenwett, and Sherwood, 2007), Phase II (Cronenwett, Sherwood, and Gelmon, 2009a; Cronenwett et al., 2009b ), and initial activities of Phase III (Sherwood, 2011 ). What follows in this chapter is the history of the QSEN story, a story that is not yet over. Future historians will evaluate QSEN’s outcomes using data that will emerge during the decade to come.

The title Quality and Safety Education for Nurses emerged one summer afternoon in 2005 when I spent many hours on my screened porch generating an endless list of ideas for what to call a grant proposal that was due to the RWJF offices within the month. But of course, QSEN began long before that day.