9) Continuing Competance Flashcards
Competance
The application of knowledge, skills, and behaviors required to fxn effectively, ethically, and legally w/in the context of the individual’s role and environment
- Post secondary eduction
- Traditional classroom
- Time-based
Continuing Competance
The lifelong process of maintaining and documenting competance through ongoing self-assessment, development, and implementation of a personal learning plan, and subsequent reassessments
- More effective
- Includes a variety of activities such as cont-ed
- Value of activity based on a number of factors
- Should be self-directed
What did all of the different agencies say about continuing competance/education?
- PEW Comission → Need to be committed to learning
- IOM → Boards should require periodic competancies
- AARP → Health care will be stronger if we do continuing competance
- CAC → Pt’s have the right to assume we are competant
Professional Growth
Professional Activities, scholarly activities, and teaching students
Why is CC/CE valuable to you as a clinician?
- Makes you marketable to employers and pt’s
- Risk management to prove you have a skill
General OPTion
Assessment plan done wherever at any point in time; 100 questions that are case-based and general; Starting point for a plan
- Allows for comparison of your current knowledge to entry-level practice
aPTitude
Cloud of CE completions
True or false: There’s no one right way to demonstrate competance
True