title: Assessing staff competency.
abstract: In the absence of a national credentialing center for nursing and in the interest of ensuring competencies, Forbes Regional Health Center has developed a framework for internal credentialing. This framework, while initiated in a specialty area, has application to all areas of acute care including the medical-surgical areas. Program development within this framework provides a consistent, structured method of documenting selected clinical proficiencies and facilitates the achievement of individual learning needs.
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards; D003406:Credentialing / Q000379:methods*; D003422:Critical Care / Q000592:standards*; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing; D006745:Hospital Bed Capacity, 300 to 499; D006801:Humans; D007318:Inservice Training / Q000379:methods; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000592:standards*; D010414:Pennsylvania; D010560:Personnel Selection