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nursing competencies

Assessing nurses’ competency to achieve highly reliable care

December 27, 2016

As tenured nurses leave the workplace, healthcare organizations are striving to provide additional development and support for the less-experienced new hires who replace them. Assessing their clinical competency and…

Developing a quality framework for annual nursing competencies

January 13, 2015

Patients expect safe, high-quality care when they enter a healthcare facility, and healthcare facilities pride themselves on the care they provide. With so much emphasis on quality, many…

Key competencies for nursing

February 14, 2018

To innovate is to put new ideas into practice or existing ideas into practice in new ways. Innovation isn’t new, but its prominence and need in health care…

What I’m hearing about competence

February 11, 2009

As ANA president, I have the privilege of representing RNs, the nursing profession, and the ANA in many local, state, regional, national, and international settings. Those responsibilities have…