Gerry Altmiller is an assistant professor at La Salle University and a board certified adult clinical nurse specialist practicing at Albert Einstein Medical Center, both in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She has been a member of the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) Grant funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation since 2006 and has been a consultant for QSEN since 2009. As a consultant for QSEN she has published teaching strategies for focusing nursing education on quality and safety concerns, has published on quality and safety in graduate nursing education, and has spoken nationally at conferences sharing strategies for incorporating QSEN competencies into nursing curriculum and clinical practice.