Competency models are used to define which characteristics and performance requirements are needed to meet a certain expectation. A competency is essentially being adept and capable at a certain skill ...

Perfection may be your goal when developing a competency model for your supply management team. While that’s admirable, keep in mind the most important characteristics of the plan are consistency and ...

The Association of Rehabilitation Nursing (ARN) has created a toolkit of resources to help schools of nursing and facility-based nurse educators apply the ARN Competency Model for Professional ...

A new report from CompetencyWorks offers "logic models" for helping to build understanding about competency-based education. Co-author Chris Sturgis warned in a blog article that the 59-page document ...

NASHVILLE -- Mart Sessler has gone far with his associate degree. He worked his way up to vice president of information systems at a large insurance provider. But after 25 years in his field, Sessler ...

The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology has developed an infection preventionist competency model to support IP education, according to an American Journal of Infection ...

The Financial Planning Association has introduced a new framework that aims to define and support the behavioral skills financial planners need to build relationships, lead teams, and grow their ...

While this school is still predominantly time-based and traditional, some teachers are using blended learning models to move to a more competency-based model. One award-winning teacher assigned her ...

These are heady times for competency-based education, which raises fundamental questions about the structure and purpose of higher education. Several colleges are taking the competency-based approach ...

Michelle Farber, RN, CIC, 2012 president of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, recently discussed the changing role of infection preventionists and APIC’s ...