However, attending CPD does not alone guarantee sustaining competency.
Sustaining competency in rural settings with lower volume facilities, few deliveries, less exposure and practice poses greater challenge.
Whilst Australia has taken the step to mandate an approach to nurses engaging in CPD, this paper highlights that there is still a great deal of research that should be undertaken to ensure effective education and achieve the goal of sustaining competency, knowledge and skills in practice.
In recent decades, society and professional associations have come to place increasing importance on generic competencies and evidence of sustained professional competence [ 1, 2], giving rise to competency-based education with emphasis on outcomes, competencies, and learner-centeredness [ 3].
Teachers demonstrate a comparable level of RDT use relative to non-health professional users of RDTs, and sustain this competency over a period of seven months during routine implementation.
They added that an effort on a European scale would "foster the development of high technologies and contribute to sustaining key competencies and jobs within Europe".
Facilitating environments included: mapping participants' socio-cultural and economic context; formal mentoring practices with internal flexibility; voluntary participation; integrated models with wrap-around services; mentor/staff competencies; and sustained funding.
Defined as a series of facilitated process-oriented actions leading to transformation (i.e., improvement in public health judgment and performance and increased competency in various areas of public health practice), empowerment builds sustained capacity.
The results of this evaluation suggest that the skills, competencies, and credentials of vulnerable youth can be improved and sustained in the context of sufficient support and opportunities.
(p. 560) (25) Some advantages universities offer over NGO training include accreditation (enabling professional growth), standardisation of competencies, structured longer-term programmes, and a higher likelihood of SBCC training being institutionalised and sustained beyond a particular donor funding stream (25).
