What are the 6C’s?
In December 2012, a three-year strategy has been put into place by the Chief Nursing Officer for England with aims to improve the quality of care provided to service users. This strategy called ‘Compassion in Practice’ has been divided into six core values: Care, Compassion, Competence, Communication, Courage and Commitment. This assignment will define and evaluate the importance of Competency in nursing.

Competence in Nursing
Competence is defined as ‘the combination of training, skills, experience and knowledge that a person has and their ability to apply them to perform a task safely.’ (Health and Safety Executive (2015)). With this in mind, it is important that nurses are fully competent in the expertise that they …show more content…
To ensure that one is a competent practitioner, standards have been put into place to make the areas of competency more known and these standards (also known as the competence framework) include professional values; communication and interpersonal skills; nursing practice and decision making and leadership, management and team working. (Nursing and Midwifery Council 2015). As part of having professional values, it is important to practice with confidence and act first and primarily for the safety of the public and those using healthcare services. (Reading et al 2014). One professional value embodied within the NMC code is adaptability in many different areas of nursing; primarily in communication. As a nurse, you must be able to recognise different situations so that your way of speaking can be suitably adapted, especially in a rapidly changing environment. This is an important professional value which must be upheld to ensure that service users can fully feel support and sense of belonging and importance. By doing this, you can show that you are competent and able to recognise other people’s feelings, which is an indicator of providing compassion in