Continuing the Creativity and Connections: The Massachusetts Initiative to Update the Nurse of the Future Nursing Core Competencies

Abstract

AIM This article describes the collaborative effort of nursing education and practice to update the Massachusetts Nurse of the Future Nursing Core Competencies. BACKGROUND The Nurse of the Future Nursing Core Competencies were published in 2010. With the establishment of the Massachusetts Action Coalition, a primary goal was to continue to promote the integration of these competencies into all education and practice settings throughout Massachusetts and share this process with other states. METHOD Through an updated literature review and consultation with subject matter experts, the Nurse of the Future Competency Committee developed a process to ensure that significant practice advances were reflected in each of the competencies. RESULTS The updated Nurse of the Future Nursing Core Competencies were published in March 2016. CONCLUSION The updated competencies capture the knowledge, attitudes, and skills needed for all nurses to create a culture of health across the continuum of health care.

Consenso Ibero-americano sobre Habilidades Comunicacionais para Estudantes de Graduação em Enfermagem

“…The Spanish-American Consensus on Communication for Nursing (in Spanish, Consenso Hispanoamericano en Comunicación para Enfermería , or CHCE) represents a consensual statement on educational outcomes in health care communication for Nursing degree studies, something which never before existed among Spanish-speaking countries. It expands and reinforces some of the proposals that have been made on communicative competences for the Nursing profession within the framework of the profession’s general competences 10 , 28 - 32 . At the end of this process, there were 70 experts from Spain and different Ibero-American countries who developed this basic communication curriculum intending to serve as a guide to help establish the communicative learning outcomes that Nursing training in higher education may provide.…”

“…Today, the Nursing professional’s ability to be a good communicator is considered essential: These CS are therefore found in almost all proposals or statements on the generic competences that we have reviewed for the practice of this health care profession 10 , 28 - 32 . Some of these, such as the International Nurse Council 29 , the Professional Nursing Standards of ANA 31 , or the 30 areas on skills identified as necessary to practice Nursing in Australia 30 , offer a varied and wide range of communicative skills or competences (this ranges between approximately 45 and 67).…”

“…This “wheel” also aims at facilitating a better understanding of the importance of contemplating a particular set of skills as well as other elements of communicative content in higher education. In most of the Nursing competence proposals reviewed 10 , 28 - 32 , the communicative competences are offered together with others of a different nature and usually distributed in different domains and subdomains, some of them very generic such as “Professional practice”, “Provision and coordination of care” 32 , “Accountability” and “Ethical practice” 29 . Doing so through a conceptual framework such as the one that underpins CHCE perhaps offers greater coherence to the different communicative domains where the 68 learning outcomes proposed are found.…”

“…Having such a consensus would be of great use. Although there exist different proposals regarding the CS that should be acquired by Nursing professionals 28 - 32 , there are no similar statements on the teaching of CS within the Nursing degrees of these countries.…”

Consenso Iberoamericano sobre Habilidades de Comunicación para Estudiantes de Grado de Enfermería

“…Lograr dicho consenso sería realmente útil. Aunque hay diferentes propuestas en relación con las HC que deberían adquirir Pérez AM, Gómez del Pulgar M, Ruiz R, Crespo A, García de Leonardo C, Caballero F. los profesionales de Enfermería (28)(29)(30)(31)(32) , no existe ninguna declaración similar con respecto a la enseñanza de HC en las carreras de grado de Enfermería de estos países.…”