* PERSON AND FAMILY CENTERED CARE: The nurse places the patient and the family at the heart of every decision and empowers them to be partners in their care. The nurse delivers compassionate and coordinated care based on the patient/family perspective incorporating preferences, values and needs in the plan of care.
* SAFETY: The nurse minimizes risk of harm to patients, families, providers and self through system effectiveness and individual performance.
* CONTINUOUS QUALITY IMPROVEMENT (CQI): The nurse utilizes data and QI methods to identify potential and actual problems and opportunities to provide care that is safe, timely, efficient, effective, and equitable.
* TEAMWORK: The effectively engages in the process of cooperation, coordination, and collaboration in an effort to provide for safe, quality outcomes for patients within inter and intra-professional teams, including virtual teams.
* TECHNOLOGY/ INFORMATICS: The nurse utilizes appropriate information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision making across the continuum.
* PROFESSIONALISM: The nurse demonstrates a commitment to the nursing profession through lifelong learning, adherence to ANA’s Code of Ethics for Nurses, participation in a professional organization and advancing community outreach.
* LEADERSHIP: The nurse effectively collaborates and applies innovative, systems thinking to engage in systematic, evidence-based problem solving and decision making to promote effective changes within a complex care delivery system supporting the vision of Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, Stanford Children’s Health.
* REFERENCES: The following Competencies and subsequent Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes are based on the latest evidence and recommendations in nursing. Identification of key competencies originated from the Institute of Medicine and expanded to formal use through the Quality Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) Institute.