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Competency

Competency versus proficiency: trying to develop an understanding of these terms in the context of practice learning

The professional governing body for nursing in the UK, the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), has long produced educational standards to support the preparation of those wishing to become registered...

Nurses' wound care competency in a sample of hospitals in Northern Vietnam

In all, 518 participants completed the study, the general characteristics of subjects are presented in Table 2. The majority of participants were young, average age was 32.25±7.31; with women...

Perceptions of competency in advanced clinical practice

This study aimed to explore ACPs' perceptions of the term competency and how they evidence competency in their practice..

A review of pessary for prolapse practitioner training

The literature search was performed using the following databases: AHMED, MEDLINE including in-process and other non-indexed citations, BNI, CINAHL, and EMBASE. Search terms used were: ‘pessary’,...

International scoping exercise into expertise in children's orthopaedic nursing and educational pathways

CON is in danger of being assimilated within generic surgical and medical nursing, with little recognition that certain skills and knowledge remain unique and are essential to providing the best...

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