The Colorado Nursing Articulation Model: 2001-2005
Publication of the Colorado Trust
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Competency Statments for Nursing Roles
Nursing, which is committed to holistic care, has an integral role in the health delivery system. Nurses are involved with health promotion, disease prevention, curative and restorative care from birth through death. The scope of nursing practice today includes many roles and requires various levels of educational preparation.
The practice of nursing utilizes the process of assessment, analysis, planning, implementation and evaluation. The process requires the integration of cognitive, affective and psychomotor skills. Practitioners with an extensive knowledge base will have the ability to assess and analyze information, make judgements and assume responsibility at the more advanced level. Conversely, practitioners with a less extensive knowledge base will assess and analyze information, make judgements and assume responsibility at a more basic level. The competencies defined in this document were designed to reflect current educational programs within the State of Colorado and are expectations upon graduation from a program. These programs include practical nursing, associate degree and baccalaureate degree programs. It is recognized, however, that the many diploma graduates currently practicing in Colorado contribute extensively to the quality of nursing practice in our state. For the purpose of articulation into baccalaureate nursing programs, diploma nurses are assumed to meet the competencies defined for the associate degree nurses.
Competency is defined as performance that integrates cognitive, psychomotor and affective skills. The client condition, environment, practice setting and expected health care outcomes indicate which of these skills would predominate. The faculty in Colorado identified the following nursing roles:
- Provider,
- Teacher,
- Manager,
- Member of the Profession, and
- Advocate.
The competencies for each level are specified for each role; it is intended that each level expands the knowledge base. The competencies presented here represent guidelines in the State of Colorado for nurse educators, employers and consumers.
Copyright 8 2000, by the
Colorado Council on Nursing Education.
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