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Indicators for competent nursing practice.

Riitta Meretoja·Elina Eriksson·Helena Leino-Kilpi
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AIMS AND BACKGROUND: This paper identifies and classifies indicators for competent nursing practice and validates these indicators in a variety of settings. Descriptive data to address competent practice in a variety of settings were collected from staff nurses, head nurses and nursing directors in an acute 1000-bed university hospital in Finland. METHOD: The data obtained from 25 expert groups were analysed to identify a clinical set of indicators for competent nursing practice from the data. The relevance of this set of indicators in a variety of clinical settings was further validated with a second sample of expert nurses (n = 26). Thereafter, data were analysed to identify generic competencies that were applicable to all clinical working environments. RESULTS: Twenty-three generic indicators of competent nursing practice were identified in a variety of settings. The findings suggest that these competence indicators are meaningful to nurses with various backgrounds and practice settings. CONCLUSIONS: Collaboration and coordination, as well as the holistic management of the situation, are highly recognized as meaningful characteristics of competent nursing practice.

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Attitude of Health PersonnelClinical CompetenceContinuity of Patient CareCooperative BehaviorFinlandHolistic NursingHospitals, UniversityHumansInterprofessional RelationsJob DescriptionNurse AdministratorsNurse's RoleNursing Evaluation ResearchNursing Staff, HospitalQuality Indicators, Health CareSurveys and QuestionnairesJournal ArticleResearch Support, Non-U.S. Gov'tValidation Study

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Riitta Meretoja, Elina Eriksson, Helena Leino-Kilpi. 2002. Indicators for competent nursing practice.. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.0966-0429.2001.00299.x

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