This movement toward a restructuration of the patient’s care process had led to the incorporation of the Core Competencies and Standards of Quality into their curricula and most of the nursing programs are currently in the process of change. The objective of this curricular redesign is to ensure that the nurses of the future fulfill the requirements necessary to perform a quality care (AACN, 2008). During the implementation of this new nursing curricula design, the new approach proposed by QSEN initiative had face some challenges to enhance Quality Improvement into nursing education. For instance, some of the challenges are the shortage of nursing faculty, ineffective and/or deficient training, and increased cost of training and/or continued education. In accordance with the American Association of College of Nursing (2012a) the shortage of nursing faculty had indicated that several nursing faculty may be academically or experientially unqualified to teach students on how to approach and implement the Quality Improvement process. This academic difficulty convey to unprepared faculty of nursing, which increases the discrepancy between the academic needs and Quality Improvement process. The AACN (2012a) had revealed that the average age of master and doctoral nursing graduated is superior to 55 years of age, which consist with high rate of retirement and disassociation relate to personal conditions. The lack of incentives and delayed into pursue an advanced degree in nursing education may be some factors leading to the nursing faculty shortage. There are few factors that should be considered in the impact of the nurse 's ability to participate in the efforts to improve the Quality Improvement process. …show more content…
In first place, the average age of the nursing workforce was 47 years in 2008 and expected to be 44.5 years by 2012, which leads to the consideration that twenty years ago Quality Improvement was not within the core competencies of the nursing practice and curricula (AACN, 2012a). As a result, this group of nurses within the healthcare system and actively practicing may lack of knowledge, skills, and attitude to completely engage the Quality Improvement required nowadays. Another challenge to the Quality Improvement is based in the fact that each year healthcare institutions around the world are implementing new strategies to achieve quality improvement and reduce the cost of health service. It can never be forgotten that health care is a business and changes in the health care service has resulted in the expansion