The Structured Interview for Competency and Incompetency Assessment Testing and Ranking Inventory (SICIATRI) is a structured interview guide to assess the competency for giving informed consent to treatment among psychiatric and medical patients. The competency levels of 48 psychiatric and medical inpatients were assessed by SICIATRI. A relatively high- inter-rater reliability of the SICIATRI i...

This paper discussed the concept of computer competency and investigated the relationship between students’ computer competency and their perception of enjoyment and difficulty level of web-based distance-learning courses. Participants were 237 entering graduate students in library and information science from a mid-southwestern state university in the United States from year 2001 to 2003. Comp...

Research suggests that the quality of out-of-school time (OST) programs is related to positive youth outcomes and skilled staff are a critical component of high quality programming. This descriptive case study of competency frameworks for youth workers in the OST field demonstrates how experts and practitioners characterize a skilled youth worker. A comparative analysis of 11 competency framewo...

Although literature suggests that providing culturally sensitive care promotes positive health outcomes for patients, undergraduate medical education currently does not provide adequate cultural competency training. At most schools, cultural competency, as a formal, integrated, and longitudinal thread within the overall curriculum, is still in its infancy. In this article, the authors summarize...

Introduction: This study identifies and analyzes the levels of relations between decision-making competency, self-determination, and health lifestyle in nursing students. Methods: This study was designed as a descriptive research to identify the relations of nursing students’ decision-making competency, self-determination, and health lifestyle. The subjects were 187 nursing students. Data were ...

82 Sandra Lovell is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist at ERM, UK and has worked across numerous high hazard industries including mining, manufacturing and oil & gas. She specialises in organisational culture and safety, human factors in system design, performance assessment & development in safety critical tasks and training systems. She has trained leaders in safety and in assessing compet...

BACKGROUND Identification of attributes of residency training that predict competency would improve surgical education. We hypothesized that case experience during residency would correlate with self-reported competency of recent graduates. METHODS Aggregate case log data of residents enrolled in 2 general surgery programs were collected over a 12-month period and stratified into Surgical Cou...

BACKGROUND Health workforce competencies are considered crucial for attaining high-quality health care in the current market principles approach to the provision of health services. This study explored the competencies and the perceived competence gap of management personnel in public primary healthcare. METHODS During 2007 and 2008, 14 management teams of Belgrade primary health-care centres...

OBJECTIVES For occupational health (OH) nurses to perform activities effectively, not only skills and knowledge but also competencies proposed by Dr. McClelland are indispensable. This study aimed to identify competencies required for OH nurses and to show their structure diagram. METHODS Qualitative descriptive research was conducted from October 2010 to August 2011. Eight high-performing OH...

It is common for Australian university academics to be critical of competency-based education systems. The values that underpin a competency-based approach and those on which traditional university education have been based are often seen to be at odds. A focus on the development of prescribed workplace skills is seen by many academics to be inconsistent with a focus on the general development ...