Health care is an essential basic need in which its safety and quality must be maintained at high standards at all times. If quality and safety of the health care is compromise, this can led to huge disasters such as lost of lives and patients who are receiving treatment might develop complications due to the disruptions of care plans they were subjected to by their health practitioners. Thus, is very important for any health care facility to make sure the safety and quality of services given to client is of high standards at all times. Hence, the staffs working at any health facility should have adequate educate on how safety and quality can be maintain at all times to reduce patient’s suffering, stay at the facility and more importantly reduce or eliminate chance of readmission (ANA, 2014). However, practically this phenomenon of maintaining 100% high quality and safety standards at all times at any health facility is becoming quite impossible to implement. This impossibility is mainly brought by the shortage of staffs. The current staffs at the health care sectors cannot meet the demand for health. The demand for health care is skyrocketing and the health care staff is shrinking at alarming rate which is getting out of control on hands of policy makers. The staffs who are currently discharging their duties are facing a huge work load and overtime working is increasing uncontrollably due to the huge demand has been cause by the increase in population. Thus, working overtime often combine with the huge workload is putting pressure and exhaustion at the current health practitioners. Thus, the quality and safety of the health care is in great danger since the current staffs cannot attend to every patients needs and due to fatigue. Thus, medical errors are bound to happen often if urgent measures are not taken to address this problem. Therefore, due to this reality on the ground, the policy makers such institute of medicine have put in place mechanism to make sure the new graduates especially nurse have the right knowledge and competency on how to navigate through these challenges and offer quality and safe care to client which address all the crucial needs of the client and the health practitioner is satisfied with his/her work. Some of these mechanisms and models are QSEN competencies and KSAs. These models prepare nurses to have adequate competences which are crucial in discharging their duties effectively whereby safety and quality are emphasize. Additionally, these model aims at providing care which optimal outcome is the main focus.
