Competencies/Skill Set
Acute Care, Long Term Care,Home Health, and Public Health
Goal II- Identify skill sets and competencies desired for 21st Century nursing graduates and needed pre-graduate and post-graduate curriculum and continuing education.
Steps to reach consensus of desirable competencies/skill sets in acute, home health, long term care and public health settings
Statewide, rural and urban input via February and March 1997 Regional Council meetings held in Alamosa, Cortez, Colorado Springs, Denver, Fort Collins, Greeley, Grand Junction, Pueblo and Trinidad.
Part C of the Colorado Nursing Work Force Survey Tool was sent to more than 900 agencies that employ nurses in Colorado. Part C asked: "Please give us your expert opinion about the competencies necessary to practice successfully in your clinical practice area so that we can provide feedback to nursing educators." (Distributed in 1997)
November and December of 1997 Regional Council meetings held again to discuss and rank the importance of 42 nursing focus areas/competencies essential for nursing personnel to function in the future. (see Essential document)
Individual setting-specific task forces were convened in first six months of 1998 with acute, long term care and public health nursing practice and education representatives. Home Health representatives were convened in collaboration with the Home Care Association of Colorado. (See documents/setting by above links)