Torunn Kitty Vatnøy

Introduction The transfer of responsibility and tasks from the specialist health service to the primary health service means that more and more specialised municipal services must be established (1). Ensuring patient safety and quality in ever more complex municipal health services makes high demands of RNs’ clinical assessment and decision-making skills (2, 3).

Abstract Aim To identify critical aspects of nursing competence to care for older patients in the context of municipal in‐patient acute care. Background An increasingly complex and advanced primary healthcare system requires attention to the extent of nursing competence in municipal services. However, competence in complex and advanced care settings must be explored using perspectives which acknowledge the complexity of nurses' performance.

ORIGINAL ARTICLE Exploring nursing competence to care for older patients in municipal in‐patient acute care: a qualitative study Torunn Kitty Vatnøy Corresponding Author E-mail address: Torunn.vatnoy@uia.no Centre for Caring Research, Department of Health and Nursing Science, University of Agder, Box 509, NO‐4898 Grimstad, Norway Search for more papers by this author This article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting,...