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Competency based education's goal is to connect the student with theory and practice. It is a student-centered educational approach. In nursing this is important because currently the nursing shortage is putting pressure on educational systems to produce competent nurses in half the time. Once Nursing was a four year - three-year nursing program, but currently it has been shortened to eighteen months. It is paramount that skilled nurses are developed with the ability to problem solve, be a critical thinker, and demonstrate interpersonal skills.
Competency is the ability to use knowledge to reflect, analyze, judge resolve, discover, interact, and create