Home Health Nursing Competencies Version 1.0 March, 2010
Home Health Nursing Competencies are the integrated knowledge, skills, judgement and attributes required of a nurse working in home health to practice safely and ethically. Attributes include, but are not limited to attitudes, values and beliefs (adapted from Canadian Nurses Association Code of Ethics, 2008)1. The Canadian Community Health Nursing Standards of Practice (2008)3 have been used as the organizing framework for the home health nursing competencies contained in this document. The competencies, which were developed by experts in home care nursing, are broad in scope, thereby lending themselves to application within multiple settings and to be further delineated into more specific elements of practice for job descriptions or performance appraisal tools.
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Development of Home Health Nursing Competencies in Canada Report, March 31, 2010
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The Public Health Nursing Discipline Specific Competencies Version 1.0 May, 2009
Following the release of the Core Competencies for Public Health 1.0 in 2007, the need to further define discipline specific competencies for public health nurses became a priority for the Community Health Nurses of Canada. Using these core competencies for public health, the Community Health Nursing Standards of Practice (CHNAC, 2008) and a literature review, a team of experts in public health nursing produced the Public Health Nursing Discipline Specific Competencies Version 1.0.
Public Health Nursing Competencies are the integrated knowledge, skills, judgment and attributes required of a public health nurse to practice safely and ethically. Attributes include, but are not limited to attitudes, values and beliefs. (Canadian Nurses Association Code of Ethics, 2008). These competencies describe the activity that a public health nurse engages in to meet a standard or a set of standards. Bilingual, 29 pages
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The Public Health Nursing Discipline Specific Competencies Version 1 Report, March 31, 2009
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Core Competencies for Public Health
Members may be interested in linking to the Core Competencies at http://www.corecompetencies.ca where there are more detailed explanations, elearning modules, and an interactive section colleagues can use to help them integrate core competencies in their practice.
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