The authors of this paper have used the assessment of competence as a fuzzy discrete set consisting of essential capacities. There has been proposed a procedure of competence quantitative estimation on the basis of discrimination index of discrete fuzzy sets fixed on one totality. A linguistic variable “Competency coefficient” has been used here for making appropriate decisions on the grounds o...

The concepts of interprofessional collaborative practice (IPCP), cultural competency and primary healthcare (PHC) appear to be linked in theory and practice. This discussion article provides arguments explicating the potential linkages between IPCP and cultural competency. We argue that cultural competency is an important component of IPCP both for relationships with patients and/or communities...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to identify the moderating and mediating effects of self-leadership in the relationship between organizational culture and nurses' informatics competency. METHODS Participants in this study were 297 nurses from the cities of Busan and Ulsan. The scales of organizational culture, self-leadership and informatics competency for nurses were used in this study...

Adaptive assessment provides efficient and personalised routes to establishing the proficiencies of learners. We can envisage a future in which learners are able to maintain and expose their competency profile to multiple services, throughout their life, which will use the competency information in the model to personalise assessment. Current competency standards tend to over simplify the repre...

Competency management is a very important part of a well-functioning organisation especially when considering individual long-term development planning and organisational learning. Unfortunately competency descriptions are not uniformly specified nor defined across boarders: National, sectorial or organisational, leading to an opaque competency description market with a multitude of competency ...

OBJECTIVES To investigate capacity to consent to medical treatment (competency) in cognitively impaired patients with PD. BACKGROUND Although competency has been studied empirically in patients with cortical dementia (AD), no empirical studies have examined competency in patients with PD or other subcortical neurodegenerative disorders. METHODS Patients with PD with cognitive impairment (n ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the construct validity of the Australian College of Critical Care Nurses (ACCCN) competency standards as a tool for assessing the clinical practice of specialist level critical care nurses in Australia. DESIGN A comparative descriptive design was used to examine the relationship between the domains, competencies and elements of the ACCCN competency standards. Participan...

OBJECTIVE This study investigated the current state of health sciences libraries' provision of culturally competent services to support health professions education and patient care and examined factors associated with cultural competency in relation to library services and professional development. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study. Data were collected with a survey questionnaire that...

The contribution of this paper is the identification and testing of factors important for the success of Open Source Software (OSS) projects. We present an analysis of OSS communities as virtual organizations and apply Katzy and Crowston’s competency rallying (CR) theory to the case of OSS development projects. CR theory suggests that project participants must develop necessary competencies, id...

Aims of course/workshop Because the urinary bladder can contract voluntarily through myogenic excitation, it would be reasonable to predict that the bladder has the potential for self-excitation. The physiological effects of the hyperpolarization-activated nucleotide-gated (HCN) channel in initiating and modulating bladder excitability need to be investigated. Moreover, the interstitial cells o...