In today's continuing effort to find an organized, useful approach to demonstrate the professional nurse's competency, the professional nurse's portfolio is being seriously discussed. The various components of a professional portfolio and the concept of reflective practice are presented.

This paper indicates how the competency approach to leadership could be conceived of as a repeating refrain that continues to offer an illusory promise to rationalise and simplify the processes of selecting, measuring and developing leaders yet only reflects a fragment of the complexity that is leadership. To make this argument we draw on two discrete sets of data: a review of leadership compet...

In this paper, we address the problem of competency comparison, providing some heuristics to help match the competencies of users with those involved in task-based scenario components (actors, tasks, resources). Competencies are defined according to a structured competency model based on a domain ontology. We provide a context for recommendation through a learning scenario model. The approach h...

The challenge addressed here is to design a hybrid cognitive architecture that will possess the minimal Core Cognitive Competency (CCC) sufficient for the cognitive and social growth of an agent up to the human level of intelligence, based on autonomous learning. The approach is based on the integration of high-level symbolic (schema-based) and connectionist components at the top representation...

today, competency oriented approach to human resources development is considered as one of the important empowering strategy in successful organizations. in recent years, emotional and social managers’ competencies and relational competencies have been demonstrated by several research studies. the purpose of the current study was examine the impact of emotional and social managers’ competencies...

BACKGROUND A competency based approach to the education of rheumatologists in musculoskeletal ultrasonography (MSK US) ensures standards are documented, transparent, accountable, and defensible, with clear benefit to all stakeholders. Specific competency outcomes will facilitate informed development of a common curriculum and structured programme of training and assessment. OBJECTIVE To deter...

BACKGROUND North American surgical education is beginning to shift toward competency-based medical education, in which trainees complete their training only when competence has been demonstrated through objective milestones. Pressure is mounting to embrace competency-based medical education because of the perception that it provides more transparent standards and increased public accountability...

OBJECTIVE To examine hospital nurses' patient safety competencies and the association between these competencies and safety climate. DESIGN Cross-sectional questionnaire survey. SETTING Three teaching hospitals in Seoul, Korea. PARTICIPANTS In total, 459 nurses from general adult nursing care units, intensive care units or operating rooms (response rate = 87.4%). METHOD Self-administere...

The APOSDLE project aims to improve knowledge worker productivity by supporting work-integrated learning. Our Work@Learn approach is based on re-using a wide variety of knowledge artefacts within an organization (such as project reports and meeting notes) for learning. Typically these artefacts have been built without any teaching objectives in mind. Within this contribution we present the way ...