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Graduate-Level QSEN Competencies Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes September 24, 2012 1 Background ? The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) has made significant and ongoing contributions to ensure that nursing professionals are provided the knowledge and tools needed to deliver high quality, safe, effective, and patient-centered care. Much of this work has focused on nurses in entry-level roles. Beginning with Phase I, the Quality and Safety Education in Nursing (QSEN) project, led by Dr. Linda Cronenwett, identified the knowledge, skills, and attitudes (KSAs) that nurses must possess to deliver safe, effective care (Smith, Cronenwett, Sherwood, 2007). This phase met the challenge of preparing future nurses to continuously improve the quality and safety of the healthcare systems within which they work. In Phase II, QSEN faculty, a National Advisory Board, and 17 leaders from 11 professional organizations representing advanced nursing practice defined graduate-level quality and safety competencies for nursing education and proposed targets for the KSAs for each competency (Cronenwett et al., 2009). Additionally, in QSEN Phase III, RWJF funded significant work at the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN). This work developed the capacity of faculty engaged in pre-licensure nursing education of all types to mentor their colleague faculty members in the integration of the evidence-based content that will educate en