competence

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Skill, talent and ability
ability
accomplishment
accuracy
acumen
adroitness
chop
endowment
functioning
genius
gift
greatness
have a command of something
prowess
pyrotechnic
pyrotechnics
qualification
repertoire
repertory
speciality
workmanship

Examples of competency

competency
We performed paired t-tests to examine differences in mean ratings on self-assessed competencies and to identify pre0post-intervention differences.
One must then ask oneself whether different practicum models are required to graduate immersion teachers with the necessary competencies to meet specifically local needs.
Cultural competency in the area of informed consent demands an appreciation for the variability of individual beliefs and practices both within and between communities.
Once the informal competency questions are available, the set of terms used can be extracted from the questions.
The authors note that attempts to apply research-based evidence on protective factors frequently tend to be oversimplified, targeting individual skills or competencies.
The competency quagmire: clarification of the nursing perspective concerning the issues of competence and informed consent.
Nevertheless, these competencies have brought us to a watershed moment in residency, and by extension, in medical education.
In yet other cases, specialized jurisdictions, for example tax courts, are created to deal with particular competencies.
In addition, a further matrix was designed, with a weighting applied, to show the order of importance for each competency.
Senior staff nurses from each area identified essential knowledge and skills content, determined staff criteria and developed the tools for competency assessment.
An educative role certainly seems to be one of the perceived core competencies of rehabilitation nurses.
Superficial renderings of models for cultural competency can result in ethnic stereotyping.
Teaching faculty carry a tremendous responsibility to guide resident and student charges on related matters of ethics, professionalism, interpersonal skills, and multicultural competency.
He points out that these competencies direct us to the character of the physicians we are training and challenge us to make virtue ethics operative.
The utilisation of whole-group listening tasks as a straightforward means of investigating baseline competencies is an enticing one.
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