Patient Safety & Quality Care Master Classes

Professor Jonathan Drennan, Prof Eileen Savage & Kathy McGuinn before the start of the presentations 

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Two Master Classes on Patient Safety and Quality Care 

 (i) Building Relationships between School of Nursing & Midwifery, Clinical Partners and Academic Health Centres:

               Progressing a Culture of Patient Safety and Quality Care  

Facilitator:          Kathy McGuinn MSN, RN, CPHQ

For Presentation please click here.

Bio of Kathy McGuinn;

Kathy McGuinn, MSN, RN, CPHQ is the Director of Special Projects at the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN). At AACN, Ms. McGuinn has been involved in facilitating a variety of initiatives including the creation and updating of AACN’s three foundational standards documents:  the Essentials of Doctoral Education for Advanced Nursing Practice; the revision of the Essentials of Baccalaureate  Education for Professional Nursing Practice and The Essentials of Master’s Education in Nursing.  She serves as the AACN lead for the UHC/AACN Nurse Residency Program. In addition, Ms. McGuinn has served as a national quality expert for AACN, overseeing Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) faculty development grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.  From 2009-2012, she oversaw the curriculum development and roll-out of nine regional undergraduate QSEN faculty development institutes; from 2012-2014, she oversaw the curriculum development and roll-out of five graduate regional QSEN faculty development institutes.  Further, Ms. McGuinn has been active in AACN’s strategic initiatives related to interprofessional education, which includes assisting with the planning of the national Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) Institutes, and actively participating with the Interprofessional Professionalism Collaborative (IPC). Presently, Ms. McGuinn is the AACN staff lead for the AACN-Manatt Report on Advancing Health Care Transformation: A New Era for Academic Nursing.

Prior to joining AACN, Ms. McGuinn was on the Senior Management Team at The George Washington University Hospital as Director of Quality and Education. In addition, Ms. McGuinn was an Assistant Professor of Nursing at Marymount University for twelve years.

Ms. McGuinn received her undergraduate degree from Georgetown University and her graduate degree from the Catholic University of America.  She is credentialed as a Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ).

(ii) Safe Nurse Staffing in Acute Healthcare Settings: What the evidence does and does not tell us.

Facilitator:          Prof. Jonathan Drennan PhD, MEd, BSc (Hons),PG Dip (Stats), RN

For Presentation please click here.

Bio of Prof. Jonathan Drennan ;

Jonathan Drennan is Professor of Healthcare Research and Head of the Centre for Innovation and Leadership in Health Sciences at the University of Southampton. He has undertaken research in a number of areas including non-medical prescribing, emergency care, the abuse and neglect of older people in community and residential settings, the development of research priorities for nursing and midwifery and safe nurse staffing. He is the co-author of a Cochrane review on hospital nurse staffing models and staff and patient outcomes as well as systematic reviews on safe nurse staffing in medical and surgical wards and emergency departments. He presented to and advised the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Safe Staffing Advisory Committees on safe nurse staffing in medical and surgical wards and accident and emergency departments. This was part of the development process of the NICE guidelines on safe staffing. Professor Drennan was also part of the Department of Health advisory team involved in the development of guidelines for safe nurse staffing and skill mix in the Irish healthcare sector. In June 2016, Jonathan will take up the post of Professor of Nursing and Health Services Research at the School of Nursing and Midwifery, University College Cork.