Such community outreach requires that health workers achieve a level of cultural competence, the final core competency for this domain.
When jobs are dished out for reasons other than competence, the state grows less competent, as anyone who has wrestled with Indian or Nigerian officialdom can attest.
Where is the competence, the decency, and the humanity?
Is instant availability of native-like competence the only standard for "knowing" a language?
The Tories will take solace that on the big question of economic competence, the government remains comfortably ahead.
For all Mr. Putin's energy, toughness, and competence, the object of his endeavors is less than noble.
With amiable competence, the two men deliver a child that Sorrow, who watched Lina drown her firstborn, has conceived.
The filmmaking is executed with extreme competence; "The Interview," which opens today at the Quad Cinema, is a technical showpiece.
Many of the jobs are not strictly relevant to the Defence Department's "core competence", the business of fighting war.
His reputation for pragmatism and competence, the traits that won him favor with Raúl Castro, began to emerge more recently.
He noted that with 79percentt of students performing at or above basic levels of competence, the city was approaching the national average of 81percentt.
