Developing entrepreneurial competencies through deliberate practice

Developing Expertise Through a Deliberate Practice Project

Developing clinical nurse specialist practice competencies.

BACKGROUND In 1998, the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialist (NACNS) developed the first ever core competencies for clinical nurse specialist (CNS) practice. PURPOSE This article describes the method used to develop, validate, and revise CNS core practice competencies. METHODS The stepwise method of identifying core CNS competencies included content analysis of CNS position/job...

Entrepreneurial Education: Reflexive Approaches to Entrepreneurial Learning In/through Practice

Objectives Even though entrepreneurial education is quite a new phenomenon in higher education, as a field of inquiry it is one of the most rapidly growing areas of research. However there is a wide spread consensus that traditional pedagogical methods of learning alone are insufficient to adequately develop entrepreneurs to deal with the complexities of running and creating innovating business...

Competencies for effective public health nutrition practice: a developing consensus.

OBJECTIVES To assess the level of consensus amongst an international panel of public health nutrition leaders regarding the essential competencies required for effective public health nutrition practice. DESIGN A modified Delphi study involving three rounds of questionnaires. SUBJECTS A panel of 20 public health nutrition experts from seven countries in the European Union, the USA and Austr...

Developing Entrepreneurial Rural Communities

Rural communities in the United States have diversified and their dependence on agriculture has decreased substantially. In the 1980s, rural deindustrialization occurred and rural areas continued to become more service oriented: employment opportunities declined because of shifts in the world and U.S. economies, and anti-rural public policies. In response, some rural communities have become ent...