2012 NATIONAL NURSING CORE COMPETENCY STANDARDS

(2012 NNCCS)

The Beginning Nurses’ Role on Client Care, there are 5 responsibilities:

I. BEGINNING NURSE’S ROLE ON CLIENT CARE

RESPONSIBILITY COMPETENCIES
1: Practices in accordance with legal principles 5
and the code of ethics in making personal and
professional judgment.
2: Utilizes the nursing process in the 7
interdisciplinary care of clients that empowers
the clients and promotes safe quality care.
3: Maintains complete, accurate and up to 3
date recording and reporting system.
4: Establishes collaborative relationship with 2
colleagues and other members of the team to
enhance nursing and other health care
services.
5: Promotes professional and personal growth 4
and development.
Total 21

 This sets the stage for the “beginning” professional nursing competencies for the care

of clients especially performed in 3 distinct and clear

 ROLES: the Beginning Nurse Role on Client Care; Beginning Nurse Role on Management and
Leadership and Beginning Nurse Role on Research. These roles set expected patterns of
behaviour for the professional nurse in society, performed within clearly established and
universally accepted processes – the NURSING PROCESS.
 In each of these roles are RESPONSIBILITIES. These are obligations explicitly carrying the
authority afforded by the state to every duly licensed professional nurse. It spells out very
peculiar mandate in terms of expected performances to decide and act based on scientific
evidence as well as ethic spiritual and legal basis for nursing care.
 These are translated in what are to be recognized as CORE COMPETENCIES referred to as
technical capacities needed for doing the tasks and roles of every Filipino Professional Nurse.
PERFORMANCE INDICATORS are spelled out for each competency to serve as guide in
evaluating effectiveness of competencies and this can ensure clients’ safety

 Responsibility 4: Practices in Accordance with Legal Principles and the Code of Ethics in
Making personal and Professional Judgment
1. Adheres to ethical-legal considerations when providing safe, quality and professional
nursing care
2. Applies ethical reasoning and decision-making process to address situations of
ethical distress and moral dilemma
3. Adheres to established norms of conduct based on the Philippine Nursing Law and
other legal, regulatory, and institutional requirements relevant to safe nursing
practice.
 4. Protects clients’ rights based on “Patient’s Bill of Rights and Obligations”.
5. Implements strategies/policies related to informed consent as it applies in multiple
contexts.
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moduls

1. Practicing Legal and Ethical Principles towards

2. Personal and Professional Judgment
3. Nursing Care of Children
4. Care of Childbearing Women
5. Health Promotion
6. Teaching the Care of the Chronically Ill Adult Patient
7. Care of the Acutely Ill Adult Client
8. Rehabilitation Nursing of Adult and Older Persons
9. Care of Clients with Problems on Psychosocial
10. Adaptation/Adjustment
11. Care of the Older Person
12. Levels of Clientele in Community Health Nursing
13. Practice: Family, Specific Population Groups and
14. Community
15. Emergency and Disaster Management
16. Documentation, Recording and Reporting System
17. Collaboration and Teamwork
18. Self-Mastery and Professional Growth

The students shall have an awareness of the competency-based approach in the curriculum and the
core competencies under the 11 key areas of responsibility: safe and quality nursing care ,
communication, collaboration and teamwork, health education , legal responsibility, ethical-moral
responsibility, personal and professional development, quality improvement, research, management
of resources and environment, and record management.