Clinically competent peers and support for education: structures and practices that work.

http://ccn.aacnjournals.org multifaceted and evident through actions. Clinically competent peers is all about competent performance, not the potential for performance. Both performance and potential are important for quality patient care, but here we focus solely on what others see or hear that leads to the judgment or conclusion that nurses on the front line in acute care hospitals are clinically competent. T he preceding excerpts from interviews with staff nurses in magnet hospitals reflect the key messages reported in this article. (Unless otherwise stated, all excerpts are from staff nurses who were interviewed for this study. The professional role of the speaker is cited for physicians [MDs] and nurse managers [NMs].) Competency is Claudia Schmalenberg, RN, MSN Marlene Kramer, RN, PhD Barbara B. Brewer, RN, PhD Rebecca Burke, RN, MS, CNAA, BC Linda Chmielewski, RN, MS, NEA-BC Karen Cox, RN, PhD Janice Kishner, RN, MSN, MBA Mary Krugman, RN, PhD Diana Meeks-Sjostrom, RN, MSN, PhD, CS, FNP-C, ONC Mary Waldo, RN, PhD, CNS-BC Clinically Competent Peers and Support for Education: Structures and Practices That Work Healthy Work Environments Article 3 in a series of 8