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ou hire your facility's nurses, surgical
techs and instrument reprocessors
based on their competence — that is,
their potential ability, their capability
to function in a given situation.
Competence can be measured through knowledge-
based tests. But once your staff members are on the
job, are you routinely monitoring their competency?
That is, how well do you know how well they're
actually performing? "Competency is much more dif-
ficult to measure," says James X. Stobinski, PhD,
RN, CNOR. As the director of credentialing and edu-
cation at the Competency and Credentialing Institute
in Denver, Colo., Dr. Stobinski knows what it takes
to ensure that your staff remains at the top of its
game, and in his presentation "Let's Talk About the
Big C — Competency," he'll show you why that's
critically important to your center's continued suc-
cess.
• Beyond training and testing. Assessing
competency in the surgical setting is not just a
testing drill, where it's possible for everything to
look great on paper. It's a lot more than that. It
has to be a framework for measuring knowledge,
skills and attitude. Teaching mechanisms can
measure knowledge. If you really want to know
K I C K E R
C ompe t e ncy i s You r C e n t er 's C u r r e n cy
Your staff is qualified, but is it excelling?
James X. Stobinski, PhD, RN, CNOR
where leaders meet, learn and grow together
Speaker Profile
• Director of cre-
dentialing and edu-
cation at the
Competency and
Credentialing
Institute.
• Formerly director
of surgical ser vic-
es at St. Luke's
Regional Medical
Center in Boise,
Idaho.
• Worked his way
up from janitor,
orderly and staff
nurse.
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