TOWARD A DEFINITION COMPETENCY FRAMEWORK FOR COMPETENCY-BASED EDUCATION IN NURSING: CRITICAL REVIEW OF EVIDENCE

Background & Aims: In recent years the issues surrounding competency-based education (CBE) increased attention and debate among health professionals and the international conferences and pilot projects proposed by a growing number of many of the issues of education magazines Medical critically examined. Because it had not been provided in nursing competency-based framework, providing a comprehensive framework, based on merit, competence in the development and standardization of the nursing department is a necessity. Methods: The review included all articles published from 1990 to 2015 related to defined competency framework for competency-based education in nursing, to languages, English and Farsi were analyzed. Ask first study defined search strategy was determined. Search for studies of databases with international and domestic sources, such as CINAHL, Web of Sciences, Science direct, ERIC, Google Scholar PubMed, SCOPUS, Wiley, Springer, Cochrane, EMBASE, SID, Irandoc, Iranmedex, MagirIran and related journals use key words appropriate Competency, competency framework, competency-based education, nursing, critical review and synthesis were used. Articles met the inclusion criteria of quality were assessed by using the checklist. Results: 2,700 articles were found and 217 of them were review articles entered the study. With regard to the relevance of related or unrelated divided into two categories and, ultimately, 84 Article of the final selection was then analyzed. Conclusion: The main purpose of the use of competency-based education in nursing competencies increase the likelihood of transmission is performance-based learning experiences in organizational outcomes. To achieve this, educational institutions a wide range of studies to identify competency to employ that will help students to prepare for the world of work.