HSE Ireland: Quality and Patient Safety Competency Navigator (24 January 2025)

Summary

The Quality and Patient Safety Competency Navigator is a self-assessment tool. It will help you identify and develop the key competencies needed to provide safe and quality care. It will also sign-post you to relevant educational resources and learning opportunities.

Content

Who can use the QPS Competency Navigator?

This resource is for everyone and can be useful for:

• students to develop skills for safe patient care
• staff to self-assess competence and identify learning needs
• line managers to guide professional development conversations
• healthcare educators to inform the design of learning programmes.
• patients to learn how they can play a role in supporting quality and patient Safety.

How to use the QPS Competency Navigator?

The QPS Competency Navigator describes six topics related to quality and patient safety. You can explore these depending on your role. You can use the tool to identify specific knowledge and skills that you need to develop and discover ways to learn more about a topic.