11 Jan 2011

Toolkit to Support Nurse and Midwife Clinical Competency Determination and Competency Development Planning

Development and Evaluation of a Toolkit to Support Nurse and Midwife Clinical Competency Determination and Competency Development Planning …

The National Council is pleased to present a Toolkit to Support Nurse and Midwife Clinical Competency Determination and Competency Development Planning 
The National Council 
commissioned the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College, Dublin, through an open tender process to develop and test a toolkit to assist service managers, nurse and midwife managers and nurses and midwives in clinical competency determination and competency development planning. The research team worked in partnership with a clinical team and a National Council steering committee to develop the toolkit.

The development of the toolkit was informed by a literature review, examination of grey literature and piloting of a toolkit. It built upon current competency frameworks for nurses’ and midwives’ and documents published by the National Council. The final piloted toolkit includes information on:
  • Competency determination for service need,
  • Identifying and writing clinical competencies for practice,
  • Competency development planning and assessment and
  • Competence frameworks in Nursing and Midwifery.
This toolkit will be published in tandem with a full report titled: The Development and Evaluation of a toolkit to Support Nurse and Midwife Clinical Competency Determination and Competency Development Planning. The report will be available to download from our website in January 2011 and hard copies of the Toolkit will be available late January 2011. The report details the process involved in developing the toolkit and we would advise anyone who wants to learn more about competency development planning and the methodology used in developing the toolkit to read it. It is important to note that this toolkit is not intended to form any mandatory update for registration.