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Leadership: NP Core Competencies

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Leadership: NP Core Competencies

The NONPF identifies various core competencies that a nurse practitioner should possess. They include scientific, leadership, quality, as well as practice inquiry competencies. To these ends, a nurse practitioner should be able to assume complex and advanced leadership roles to initiate and guide change. The family nurse practitioner, for instance, should be able to provide leadership to foster collaboration with multiple stakeholders, such as parents, the patient,and their family or community members (Hamric et al., 2013). Additionally, they must demonstrate leadership that utilizes critical and reflective thinking. More importantly, they should advance practice thoughtthe development and implementation of innovations that incorporate principles of change. Leadership skills include the capacity to communicate practice knowledge efficaciously both orally and literally.

Scientific competencies include the capacity to critically assess data and evidence for the purpose of improving the advanced nursing practice. They, for instance, should integrate knowledge from the humanities and sciences within the context of nursing science. In the contemporary health care settings, policymakers are increasingly translating research and other forms of knowledge to improve practice processes and outcomes. Moreover, they should be able to develop new practice models on the basis of the integration of evidence, theory, and practice. Further, quality competencies refer to the capacity to utilize the best available evidences to continuously improve the quality of clinical practice. To meet this competency standards, nurses often enroll for quality safety education to gain more insights into the ability to evaluate outcomes of care such as quality improvement projects (Auerhahn et al., 2010). Quality also includes the capacity to assess the relationships among access, cost, quality, and safety and their impacts on health care of a particular population. Finally, this may include the ability to apply skills in peer reviews to promote a culture of excellence. Therefore, a family nurse practitioner anticipate variations in practice and become proactive in implementing interventions to promote quality.

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Auerhahn, C., Kennedy-Malone, L., & Duffy, E. G. (2010). Integrating gerontological content

into advanced practice nursing education. Springer Publishing Company.

Hamric, A. B., Hanson, C. M., Tracy, M. F., & O'Grady, E. T. (2013). Advanced Practice

Nursing-E-Book: An Integrative Approach. Elsevier Health Sciences.