Healthcare competencies are continuously changing and require constant updates and education on the nurses’ part to stay relevant. Knowledge and understanding of core competencies affect the entire scope of nursing practice. Through this class and I have the platform to learn about core competencies through educational texts and networking with other nurses around the country—which excites me more than the same topic in a traditional classroom …show more content…
In June 2015, Alexandra Pecci published an article titled “Nurse-patient Ratio Law in MA Raises Cost, Quality Concerns.” Pecci discusses the topic from both sides of the topic. Do mandated nurse-patient ratios really impact quality and safe patient care? Or is the impact of extra dollars spent on staffing felt in other budgetary categories that equally affect the nurses’ ability to deliver quality and safe patient care? The topic of nurse-patient ratios is relevant in almost every module in this course—Healthcare Policy and Economics, Legal and Ethical Issues, Nursing as a Profession, and Critical Healthcare Issues of Today. Currently, it is a topic of discussion in my local community as well as the hospital that employs