Essay On Nursing Competence

The understanding of competence concepts in managerial study is heavily implied through the behavioural, functional or standard, the situational, the meta-competency and the holistic approach in the development of managerial competence. Nursing competence is heavily influenced by managerial competence in order to have a clear understanding of over the concept. However, in nursing competence literature the concept is still not clearly identifying and has a debate concerning the concept of competence which references to the position of nursing manager, staff or qualified nurses. Few nursing researchers discussed understanding of competence by the learners’ perspective which this study is warranted for. From nursing competence literature most

MOHE highlights, the core competencies such as application of knowledge and critical thinking as most competencies that nurses need to develop and apply. Beside of that, nursing competence literature highlight clinical placement as an important venue for trainee nurses acquire their necessary competence even though there is an issue of overcrowded clinical placement which can hinder the student nurses’ experience acquisition and caused by the lack of competence and challenges at the workplace. The acquisitions of student nurses competence are influenced by several situational factors that can divide by two which is internal and external factors. The internal factors consist of personal context and clinical competence, whereas external factors consist of organizational context consists of clinical environments, clinical placement and the competency based education and training. However, nursing competence literature is lacking in order to highlight how student nurses’ acquire their competence at the workplace and how competence is being conceptually understood and addressed by the student nurses training