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...

Competency development is a critical success factor for organizations and their employees when it comes to competitiveness. Competency Management Systems contribute to systematic competency development within organizations by supporting processes such as needs identification, intervention planning and implementation, and evaluation. However, designing Competency Management Systems comes with a ...

In “Competency to Stand Trial in Preadjudicated and Petitioned Juvenile Defendants,” Baerger et al. report the results of their investigation of competency to stand trial of juveniles charged with various offenses. The findings support the expected positive correlations between age and competency and cognitive ability and competency. The importance of the paper, however, lies in its contributio...

Background: Faculty members are the main sources of universities. Determination and promotion of their competencies lead to the overall performance promotion of universities. Faculty members’ teaching competencies have the greatest role in the improvement of education, research and universities social services quality. Therefore, in order to investigate this issue more carefully, this study aim...

Competency is a topic of great interest to educators and administrators in practice disciplines, particularly health care disciplines such as nursing. This article focuses on the role of competency in nursing. Through a concept analysis process, various elements of competency were assessed. The defining attributes of competency are the application of skills in all domains for the practice role,...

competency- based mastery learning: a planned clinical experience for nursing students     baghaei r [1] , mohammadpour y [2] *, habibzade h [3] , rasouli d [4] , khalilzadeh h [5] , jafarizadeh h [6]    received: 2 may, 2011 accepted: 6 july, 2011   abstract  background & aims: clinical education is one of the most important and crucial parts of nursing education. successful clinical education...

Using a theoretical cultural competency model, the effectiveness of a cultural competency learning assignment was examined to determine: 1) students' cultural competency levels as reflected through the assignment, and 2) the effectiveness of the assignment as a cultural competency learning activity. Third-year family medicine clerkship students completed a required project to research and refle...

In order to establish and maintain IT empowered cooperation between universities and industrial organizations; on the one hand universities should be informed about trends in the labour market, and on the other hand industrial organizations should have an insight into trends of knowledge development in universities. Furthermore, taking into consideration that a competency is becoming a kind of ...

background: the purpose of our study was to assess resident and fellow patient care competency related to chest port catheter insertion after implementation of an educational program and completion of a certification checklist. furthermore, we aimed to measure the impact of this intervention on early infection rates. methods: baseline early infection rates as defined by the cdc were obtained in...

The competency of Safety Practitioners has given rise to a number of competency frameworks of varying levels of complexity, (HSE/IET/BCS, 2007, Rail Safety & Standards Board, AEA Technology, 2003). To date the focus has been on the content and structure of these frameworks, with respect to the criteria that must be satisfied to substantiate competency claims. Here we do not attempt to provide a...