title: [ANALYSIS USING AN EXPERT PANEL OF ACTIVITIES AND COMPETENCIES WHICH NURSING CLINICAL PRACTICE TUTORS IN THE COMUNIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID SHOULD POSSESS].
abstract: Although practical training has always been important in Nursing, it has reached a new dimension in the European Higher Education Area. This has involved adapting the syllabus, where one of the new features is considering clinical practice as an independent subject and also including the concept of competence as a result of the students' learning. The figure of the tutor becomes one of the key factors and therefore their activities and competencies must be defined.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To enumerate and prioritize, by agreement, the main activities and competences by the tutor of clinical practices in the Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid should posses. METHODOLOGY. Quantitative focus, analysis by group of experts between 2010 and 2013. RESULTS. A total of 510 nurses have participated, 17 panels of experts have met and consensus has been reached on 22 competencies and 12 activities.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The description of activities and competencies can be extremely useful for selecting, evaluating and developing nursing clinical practice tutors, becoming a baseline and reducing the subjectivity in the development of tutors according to the new demands of the European Higher Education Area.
authors.forename: María Teresa
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Argüello López
authors.forename: Ana María
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Palmar Santos
authors.forename: Carmen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sellán Soto
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000592:standards*; D005181:Faculty, Nursing; D013030:Spain