Creating academic/service partnerships through nursing competency models

The usefulness and/or limitations of the Model will be realized through its application in education and practice. [...]the ONWR has launched a 3-year pilot project, creating an opportunity through which academic/service partnerships can test the Model. Responsibility for testing the model in practice and education has been vested in a joint committee of the Council and the Mississippi Hospital Association's Organization for Nurse Executives (MHA-ONE). The joint committee took on the additional task of utilizing the Model to frame nursing job descriptions and performance evaluations, and this effort has led to a rethinking of the structure and format of the Model. [...]the ONWR appointed an ad hoc group, including representatives from human resource departments, to revisit this charge.