Professional Competence - Standards
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Perspectives on transcultural care.

29 Nov 2009 Culture has been defined as the thoughts, communications, actions, customs, beliefs, values, and institutions of racial, ethnic, religious, or social groups. A culture of nursing refers to the learned and transmitted lifeways, values, symbols, ... Read more...

Teacher knowledge, instructional expertise, and the development of reading proficiency.

30 Aug 2009 Teacher knowledge and instructional expertise have been found in correlational and pre- and posttest studies to be related to student reading achievement. This article summarizes data presented in this special issue and additional research to ... Read more...

Mastery of the mind East and West: excellence in being and doing and everyday happiness.

30 Jul 2009 Western psychological research on positive psychology and Buddhism have recently converged in their emphasis on the development of positive states, like states of excellence and everyday happiness. Yet, these traditions differ in their approaches to ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Professional Competence - Standards'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Perspectives on transcultural care. 29 Nov 2009
• [Involvement of nurses in the evaluation of their competence as students] 30 Aug 2009
• [7/10 Analysis of the quality of nursing and improving professional practice (competence?)] 30 Aug 2009
• What it means to be a good nurse. 30 Aug 2009
• ["Successful career"? What constitutes success in nursing?] 30 Aug 2009
• Teacher knowledge, instructional expertise, and the development of reading proficiency. 30 Aug 2009
• Still wanted: teachers with knowledge of language. 30 Aug 2009
• Performance improvement in internal medicine residency education: Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island curriculum. 30 Jul 2009
• [Time to change continuing medical education!] 30 Jul 2009
• Mastery of the mind East and West: excellence in being and doing and everyday happiness. 30 Jul 2009
• Toward a science of exceptional achievement: attaining superior performance through deliberate practice. 30 Jul 2009
• Relevant nursing leadership: an evidence-based programmatic response. 8 Jul 2009
• [Practical advices for writing a case report] 29 Jun 2009
• Promise of professionalism: personal mission statements among a national cohort of medical students. 29 Jun 2009
• What should we assess in practice? 29 Jun 2009
• The SBAR communication technique: teaching nursing students professional communication skills. 29 Jun 2009
• Construct validity of the core competencies for public health professionals. 29 Jun 2009
• Public health financial management competencies. 29 Jun 2009
• [Nurses, patients and families. 7/8--The responsibility of nurses] 29 Jun 2009
• Educating health professions students about the issues involved in communicating effectively: a novel approach. 29 Jun 2009

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Technical information about 'Professional Competence'

Definition: The capability to perform the duties of one's profession generally, or to perform a particular professional task, with skill of an acceptable quality.

Descriptor UI: D011361

Alternative terms: Professional Competence; Competence, Professional; Generalization of Expertise; Expertise Generalization; Technical Expertise; Expertise, Technical;

Allowable Qualifiers: economics; legislation & jurisprudence; standards; statistics & numerical data;

Tree Number: I02.399.630;

History Note: 79

Technical Notes: competence in any profession or discipline: differentiate from CLINICAL COMPETENCE which is restricted to competence in professional activities directly related to patient care