INTRODUCTION Competence of nurses is a complex combination of knowledge, function, skills, attitudes, and values. Delivering care for patients in the Intensive Cardiac Care Unit (ICCU) requires nurses' competences. This study aimed to explain nurses' competence in the ICCU. METHODS This was a qualitative study in which purposive sampling with maximum variation was used. Data were collected th...

This action research project addresses the issue of continuing competence from the viewpoint of allied health faculty members at a community college in Illinois. With input by and feedback from the faculty, the researcher describes how full-time allied health faculty members maintain their clinical competence, determines if efforts toward continuing competence are linked with academic responsib...

OBJECTIVES To assess health worker competence in emergency obstetric care using clinical vignettes, to link competence to availability of infrastructure in facilities, and to average annual delivery workload in facilities. DESIGN Cross-sectional Health Facility Assessment linked to population-based surveillance data. SETTING 7 districts in Brong Ahafo region, Ghana. PARTICIPANTS Most expe...

Measures of functional competence have been introduced to supplement standard cognitive and neuropsychological evaluations in schizophrenia research and practice. Functional competence comprises skills and abilities that are more relevant to daily life and community adjustment. However, it is unclear whether relevance translates into significantly enhanced prediction of real-world outcomes. The...

BACKGROUND When selecting residents for residency programs, there has been little success using standard academic criteria to predict their clinical performance. However, numerous studies in the past have found linkages between the nonstandard variable moral reasoning as measured by the instrument Defining Issues Test (Version 2; DIT-2) and clinical decision making with higher levels of moral r...

BACKGROUND The goal of this study was to assess the impact of formal opt-out family planning training on clinical competence in uterine evacuation. STUDY DESIGN Residents who participated in newly established, routine opt-out family planning training completed surveys before and after their rotations. The surveys asked residents to report clinical experience and competence in family planning....

BACKGROUND Nurses play a crucial role in patient-care. Therefore, assessing nurses' clinical competence is essential to achieve qualified and safe care. The aim of this study was to determine and compare the competence assessments made by head nurses and practicing nurses in a university hospital in Iran in 2009. METHODS A cross-sectional survey was conducted to make comparisons of both self-...

INTRODUCTION Objective structured clinical examination is the instrument with more validated evidence to assess the degree of clinical competence of medical students. OBJECTIVES To assess the degree of clinical competence of medical students at the end of their internship; to assess the reliability of the instruments with G theory. METHODS This was an observational, longitudinal, and compar...

INTRODUCTION Audiology students should possess clinical competence and skills. To achieve this, their clinical skills must be properly assessed. The Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) is a standard and fair examination of clinical competence. The goal of this study is to devise a checklist of OSCE examination criteria and study their validity and reliability for assessing the clin...