Core Competencies of Filipino Nurses

The role our nurses play in the success of one's treatment, and in the entire healing process, can never be underestimated.

With my recent appointment as a board director of RO Diagan Cooperative Hospital, I took the initiative to improve the nursing service. We we recognize that the main part of the responsibility to create and maintain a safe and healing environment for patients falls on the nursing service personnel. Thus, we endeavor to improve them to be clinically proficient.

Using the core competencies of Filipino nurses that embed the 12 areas of competence, we gradually put these competencies in place:

Safe and quality nursing
Management of environment and resources
Health and education
Legal responsibility
Ethico-moral responsibility
Personal and professional development
Quality improvement
Research
Records management
Communication
Collaboration and teamwork
customer service

Our nursing services strategy is meant to develop these 12 core competencies. These competencies also serve as the:

practical tool for evaluation performance of nurses
basis for advanced practice and specialization
means to protect the public from incompetent practitioners
yardstick for unethical and unprofessional practice