Professional competence – adding reflective elements to case reports

Reflective testing: adding value to laboratory testing.

Reflective testing is a procedure in which the laboratory specialist adds additional tests and/or comments to an original request, after inspection (reflection) of the results. It can be considered as an extension of the authorization process where laboratory tests are inspected before reporting to the physician. The laboratory specialist will inevitably find inconclusive results, and additiona...

Maintaining Professional Competence : Approaches to Career

Conceptions of professional competence

150-250 words Professional and practice-based learning is a process which manifests itself in many different forms. It differs by personal characteristics of the learners, levels of their professions, fields of practice, intentionality of their learning, and formalisation of the learning activities. Notions of competence have entered this diverse practice in many ways. The question is whether c...

Continued competence--a reflective practice approach.

A B C D What is Continuing Competence? Continued Competence is the ongoing acquisition and application of knowledge and the decision-making, psychomotor, and interpersonal skills expected of the licensed nurse resulting in nursing care that contributes to the health and welfare of clients served. Why is continuing competence important to the Board of Nursing? The Board is responsible for protec...

Defining and assessing professional competence.

CONTEXT Current assessment formats for physicians and trainees reliably test core knowledge and basic skills. However, they may underemphasize some important domains of professional medical practice, including interpersonal skills, lifelong learning, professionalism, and integration of core knowledge into clinical practice. OBJECTIVES To propose a definition of professional competence, to rev...