Introduction: Nursing students require highly specialized competencies to accurately determine patients' states and to predict and cope with problems that may occur during nursing care. This study explores the definition, domains, and levels of nursing students' competency. Methods: This study was a systematic review of nursing students’ competencies in E...

Background/Study aim The American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) recommends that trainees complete 150 endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) procedures before assessing competency. However, this recommendation is largely based on limited evidence and expert opinion. With new evidence suggesting that this historical threshold is underestimating training requirements, we evaluated the learni...

Competency in the use of ICT is enjoying renewed attention in the research and practice, but there may be a notable lack of a deeper theoretical view in this area of interest. This paper presents a grounded theory that revolves around three core elements namely: e-Competency Sets, e-Competency Acquisition, and Triggers. It is proposed that the practitioner possesses an eCompetency Set, consisti...

introduction: second national medical sciences olympiad was done in shiraz in august 2010 with aim of indentifying scientifically talented individuals, motivating students and orienting extracurricular activities. this olympiad was done in 3 areas, basic sciences, clinical sciences and management. in clinical sciences, we used tosce (team objective structured clinical examination). in this arti...

The need for nations to enhance their competitiveness by leveraging the imperatives of Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) has seen major shifts in teaching and learning strategies employed globally educators. Research Zimbabwean education pointed a gap teachers' competence use information communication technologies (ICTs) teaching. Using UNESCO ICT competency teachers Bernstein's (2000) theory ...

Most of the canonical macroeconomic models simulate liquidity anomalies by changing economic fundamentals or adding massive financial shock to firms’ collateral constraints, but a few facts somehow tell different story. Instead relying on exogenous shocks, we introduce uncertainty into an otherwise classical framework and try answer what worsens aggregate in absence simulations firm dynamics fi...

iran energy exchange was established with the approval of exchange supreme council in june 2011, and started its activities in the early june, 2012. studying and investigating the rules and regulations of iran energy exchange, some interferences and disorders can be observed in the competency as well as multiplicity of the enactment authority. most of the energy exchange rules have been enacted...

O The main reasons for the lack of faculty to meet the demand for more nurses include the increased age of the current faculty and the declining number of years ieft to teach, expected increases in facuity retirements, less compensation for academic teaching than positions in clinical areas for master's-prepared nurses, and finaiiy, not enough master's and doctoral-prepared nurses to fiii the n...