NURSE COMPETENCIES
Nurses play a central role in providing healthcare and are especially valued by patients with complex diseases, such as interstitial lung disease (ILD). Due to the growing complexity of care, the roles of specialist nurses is evolving in ILD. To provide and coordinate optimal holistic care that is tailored to the patient’s individual needs and values, they have several roles for which they need certain competencies.1 These roles and competencies are depicted by the framework below.
CANMEDS-MODEL
CanMEDS (Canadian Medical Education Directions for Specialists) is a framework that was originally created to define the competencies that physicians need to ensure good practice.2 This framework was later adapted by a Dutch workgroup to describe the competencies that nurses require to meet the needs of patients. Since then, a new variant of the framework was developed by ILD specialist nurses for optimal ILD nursing.
The CanMEDS model described here, displays the abilities for ILD nurses to ensure optimal ILD care. For every CanMEDS-role, the nurse should possess certain competencies that consist of knowledge and skills.