Proceedings of the Assessment of Competence Conferece
13 -14 Sept 2001
Fitzpatrick Castle Hotel, Killiney, Co. Dublin.
Setting the Scene for Competence Assessment
Anne-Marie Ryan, Chief Education Officer, An Bord Altranais.
On behalf of the education department of An Bord Altranais I would sincerely like to welcome and thank you all for demonstrating your interest in the assessment of competence for entry to the register of nurses as maintained by An Bord Altranais. Our President Ms. O’Malley has welcomed you and has thanked the key people who were instrumental in planning, organising and contributing to our two days together. I would like to add my voice to hers by also saying thank you, particularly to the many, many nurses who contributed to the pilot study and the facilitation of the study in the pilot sites. I hope over the next two days we can share our experiences and thoughts on what we acknowledge is a major change to the structures, planning, delivery and measurement of outcomes from educational programmes of nursing studies. This shift in emphasis is an indication that authority for nurse education and practice is moving to the educators, managers and the practitioners in the health care services. It is acknowledged that devolving this decision-making has implications for many in the health services and having representation from nurse management, nursing practice and nurse education is most welcomed...
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