Newsletter Articles | December 1, 2003
Core Competencies Needed For Health Care Professionals: Using Health Professionals Education To Improve Quality
OPEN MINDS, The Behavioral Health & Social Service Industry Analyst
Special Feature
All health professionals should be educated to deliver patient-centered care as members of an interdisciplinary team, emphasizing evidence-based practice, quality improvement approaches, and informatics.
To this end a set of simple, core competencies that all health clinicians should possess, regardless of their discipline, to meet the needs of the 21st-century health care system [is proposed]:
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Provide patient-centered care identify, respect, and care about patients' differences, values, preferences, and expressed . . .