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Communication, Clinical Competence, And More: What Are the Top Skills to Be a Nurse?

Post University

Today’s nurses do it all: offer clinical care, maintain sanitary environments, and provide comfort for patients as they face distressing circumstances. They must accomplish all this while abiding by evidence-based practices and keeping up to date on quickly changing tools, technologies, and methodologies.

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Nursing ethics and shared governance model

American Nurse

Incorporating ethical competence and professional development into everyday nursing practice is imperative to fulfilling ethical obligations for optimal patient care. The NECC encourages the advancement of ethical and moral knowledge across practice areas. See Strategic imperatives.)

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Essential Qualities and Characteristics of a Good Nurse

Relias

Qualities of a good nurse 1 – Caring and compassion Many people assume that nurses enter the field because compassion is one of their leading qualities — but this nursing characteristic isn’t necessarily a given. But as a nursing quality, compassion makes all the difference to patients. With well over five million RNs in the U.S.,