Core Competencies for Nursing and Midwifery Practice by B.Sc. Nursing Graduate

The B.Sc. Graduate Nurse will be able to:

1 Patient centered care: Provide holistic care recognizing individual patient‘s preferences, values and needs, that is compassionate, coordinated, age and culturally appropriate safe and effective care.

2 Professionalism: Demonstrate accountability for the delivery of standard-based nursing care as per the Council standard that is consistent with moral, altruistic, legal, ethical, regulatory and humanistic principles.

3 Teaching & Leadership: Influence the behavior of individuals and groups within their environment and facilitate establishment of shared goals through teaching and leadership

4 System-based practice : Demonstrate awareness and responsiveness to the context of healthcare system and ability to manage resources essential to provide optimal quality of care.

5 Health informatics and Technology: Use technology and synthesize information and collaborate to make critical decisions that optimize patient outcomes.

6 Communication: Interact effectively with patients, families and colleagues fostering mutual respect and shared decision making to enhance patient satisfaction and health outcomes.

7 Teamwork and Collaboration: Function effectively within nursing and interdisciplinary teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, shared decision making, team learning and development.

8 Safety: Minimize risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance.

9 Quality improvement: Use data to monitor the outcomes of care processes and utilize improvement methods to design and test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of healthcare system.

10 Evidence based practice: Identify, evaluate and use the best current evidence coupled with clinical expertise and consideration of patient‘s preferences, experience and values to make practical decisions.