“…Skills acquisition and competence‐based approaches continue to drive the development and delivery of pre‐registration nursing and continuing professional education healthcare curricula in the UK. Despite warnings of the reductionist and mechanistic nature of competencies, critics and supporters acknowledge that they are here to stay (Milligan, 1998; Lombardi et al , 2004; Scholes, 2006; Watson, 2002). Competencies and skills have currency even though difficulty persists with their definition (Crouch, 2005; Cowan et al , 2005; Milligan, 1998).…”