The Importance Of Nursing Competency

Beside clinical competence, moral competence is considered by nursing as essential in nursing competence development. Nursing practice not only depends on technical knowledge and skills, but also on values, beliefs and ethics, which play a significant role in shaping their decision making while performing the health care services (Jomsri et al., 2005). The authors argue, nurses who have skills in moral competence can be trusted to act in ways that advance the interest of patients. However, values are needed to combine together with the technical competency in the workplace (Zoboli and Schveitzer, 2013). This requires nurses a human sensitivity, which is manifested in interest, respect, attention, comprehension, consideration and affection for

Arguably, learning new information and skills as well as dealing with challenging situations can be negatively impacted by a lack of confidence due to a lack of competence in practice. According to Lundberg (2008) students with low confidence often visualize defeat before it occurs. In line with (ibid, 2008), Bradbury-Jones et al., (2007) challenge that disempowering experiences can lead to fragile levels of confidence, which can be result in students disengaging from placements or leaving a program. The authors further elaborate that in contrast, increased confidence and empowerment led to improved motivation for learning and a better outlook on a situation (Bradbury-Jones et al., 2007). Earlier work by Clark et al., (2004) highlight that when students have a higher sense of confidence about their skills, they are more likely to think of these skills as important, which may indirectly affect competence at work, as argued by Bandura (1997), people fail to apply what they learned or do half-heartedly, if they distrust their ability to do successfully. A recent study by Watson et al.,

In terms of nursing perspective, it can be argued that, social values is a principle and standards of human interaction within a group that are regarded by members of that group as being worthy, important and reliable. Social value teaches nurses to be more concern and alert with the social interaction, although in a group of supervision or among the patients that encounters the communication skills of learners (ibid,