Core Competencies for Chronic Disease Prevention Practice

Designing Competencies for Chronic Disease Practice

INTRODUCTION Competencies are the cornerstone of effective public health practice, and practice specialties require competencies specific to their work. Although more than 30 specialty competency sets have been developed, a particular need remained to define competencies required of professionals who practice chronic disease prevention and control. To that end, the National Association of Chron...

Core competencies for injury and violence prevention.

Efforts to reduce the burden of injury and violence require a workforce that is knowledgeable and skilled in prevention. However, there has been no systematic process to ensure that professionals possess the necessary competencies. To address this deficiency, we developed a set of core competencies for public health practitioners in injury and violence prevention programs. The core competencies...

Core competencies in cancer genetics for advanced practice oncology nurses.

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To determine core competencies in cancer genetics for advanced practice nurses (APNs) in oncology. DESIGN Survey. SAMPLE Expert panel of 9 nursing educators or researchers, 9 general genetics experts, 9 genetics experts with specialties in oncology, and 10 oncology APN nurse consumers (N = 37). METHODS Utilizing the Delphi Technique, two rounds of surveys were conducted...

Core Competencies for Clinical Supervisors

Training needs of healthcare providers related to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention core competencies for fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.

BACKGROUND Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs) are birth defects directly linked to consumption of alcohol during pregnancy and hence completely preventable. Many health and allied health professionals are in prime positions for primary prevention of FASDs through work with women of childbearing age and secondary prevention through work with affected individuals whose lives can be greatly ...