1. The competencies of Registered Nurses working in care homes: a modified Delphi study.
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Stanyon MR, Goldberg SE, Astle A, Griffiths A, and Gordon AL
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- Career Mobility, Consensus, Curriculum standards, Focus Groups, Humans, Stakeholder Participation, United Kingdom, Clinical Competence standards, Delphi Technique, Education, Nursing, Graduate standards, Homes for the Aged standards, Nurse's Role, Nurses standards, Nursing Homes standards
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Background: registered Nurses (RNs) working in UK care homes receive most of their training in acute hospitals. At present the role of care home nursing is underdeveloped and it is seen as a low status career. We describe here research to define core competencies for RNs working in UK care homes., Methods: a two-stage process was adopted. A systematic literature review and focus groups with stakeholders provided an initial list of competencies. The competency list was modified over three rounds of a Delphi process with a multi-disciplinary expert panel of 28 members., Results: twenty-two competencies entered the consensus process, all competencies were amended and six split. Thirty-one competencies were scored in round two, eight were agreed as essential, one competency was split into two. Twenty-four competencies were submitted for scoring in round three. In total, 22 competencies were agreed as essential for RNs working in care homes. A further 10 competencies did not reach consensus., Conclusion: the output of this study is an expert-consensus list of competencies for RNs working in care homes. This would be a firm basis on which to build a curriculum for this staff group., (© The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Geriatrics Society.All rights reserved. For permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com)
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- 2017
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