No | Core Competencies | Definition |
1 | Patient-Centered Care (Caring) | Provide holistic care that recognizes an individual’s preference, values and needs. It also respects the patients and treats them as a full partner in providing compassionate, coordinated and culturally appropriate, safe and effective care. |
2 | Professionalism | Demonstrate accountability for practicing nursing within established moral, legal, ethical, regulatory, and humanistic principles. |
3 | Communication | It refers to the ability to interact effectively with patient, families, and colleagues, fostering mutual respect and shared decision-making, to enhance patient satisfaction and health outcomes. |
4 | Leadership | The leadership in nursing is regarding capability to influence the behavior of individuals or groups of individuals within their environment in a way that will facilitate the establishment and acquisition/achievement of shared goals. |
5 | Safety | Minimize risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance. |
6 | Research | Integrate best current evidence with clinical expertise and consideration of patients’ preference experience and values for delivering the best quality of care. |
7 | Teaching and Learning | Comprehends the basic principle of learning and teaching and learning domain. Furthermore, a sense of awareness for health literacy and cooperative learning is determined. |