Using nursing grand rounds to enforce Quality and Safety Education for Nurses competencies

Creative teaching is critical to engaging students. Medical grand rounds emerged as a central teaching activity in United States medical schools for the first half of the past century but have faded as education has moved to the classroom. Combining this age-old Socratic teaching method with modern high-fidelity laboratory manikins makes for an optimal learning opportunity for nursing students. Development of activities with the structure of Quality and Safety Education for Nurses competencies supports evidence-based practice and critical reasoning skills. (C) 2012 National Organization for Associate Degree Nursing. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.