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1Emergency Department, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, One Medical Center Drive, Lebanon, New Hampshire 03756-0001, USA. jean.proehl@hitchcock.org.
Abstract:
Assessing emergency nursing competence is an ongoing issue for emergency clinical nurse specialists (CNS), educators, and other members of the leadership team. Validation of emergency nurses' competency is not only required by regulatory agencies, but common sense tells people that they need to know that nurses can safely care for patients. Strategies for evaluating and improving emergency nursing competence based on the author's experience are discussed in this article.
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