Competencies of effective and efficient home care nurses

The abilities of effective and efficient home care nurses include the action-oriented implementation of knowledge and intellectual skills, including the application of psychomotor skills. These abilities have been translated into competencies and then quantified into a classification of seven categories of practice, with key elements for each category. Since all home care nurses should be assessed against valid and reliable competencies, this tool can prove useful to managers as they assess and improve competencies of staff RNs.