Nurse Practitioner Core Competencies

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Nurse Practitioner Core competencies play an important role in clinical practice of Advanced Nurse Practitioner. All the competencies are essential in delivering patient centered care with better outcomes. Out of all core competencies, ethics competency is important to integrate in education and training of Advanced Practice Nurses. These competencies include basic ethical principles and how it can be applied for population’s specific ethical dilemma. We often avoid and struggle with ethical dilemmas because of limited knowledge and confidence. The ethics knowledge can influence the confidence in providing better care to patient (Laabs, 2012). Basic knowledge of theories of ethical decision making, ethics committee, genetic counseling, clinical

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