AIM This article describes the collaborative effort of nursing education and practice to update the Massachusetts Nurse of the Future Nursing Core Competencies. BACKGROUND The Nurse of the Future Nursing Core Competencies were published in 2010. With the establishment of the Massachusetts Action Coalition, a primary goal was to continue to promote the integration of these competencies into al...

The successful orientation of new employees facilitates their transition to the complex and demanding world of perioperative nursing. Whether a nurse is a recent graduate or an experienced nurse who has recently joined the facility or department, a new nurse benefits from a transition period during which new skills, processes, and concepts can be learned. Training should offer new employees the...

Using the Informatics Organizing Research Model (Effken, 2003) to add context to the information gleaned from ethnographic interviews of seven chief nurse executives (CNEs) currently leading integrated delivery systems, the author concluded nurse executives can no longer depend exclusively on American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE) competencies as they outsource their responsibility fo...

BACKGROUND One strategy to address the current nursing shortage in specialty areas has been to introduce graduate nurse programs. However introducing novice nurses to specialty areas raises concerns around education and competency which, in turn, highlights the need to identify and prioritise the elements of competent paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) nursing care considered essential to sa...

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...

background: success in patient care and gain credit for the hospital depend on nurse staff competent and appetency, so they must be lead in suitable manners and it is nurse manager's duty that must have suitable personality and competency for powerful leadership. the purpose of this study is to assess the effectiveness of leadership and its relationship with extrovert/introvert personality. met...

The demonstration of nurses' competency has been a challenge for nurse educators for a multitude of reasons. Standardizing competencies across a health care system is especially challenging. One multihospital health care system embarked on a journey to standardize and implement competencies across the system. Using a collaborative approach, the Wright model of competency assessment was selected...