As a Nurse Responsible For General Care, you will need to master following:

• accept own accountability
• acute care
• advise on healthcare users' informed consent
• analyse quality of nurse care
• apply context specific clinical competences
• apply nursing care in long-term care
• apply person-centred care
• biological chemistry
• citizen involvement in healthcare
• comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
• contribute to continuity of health care
• coordinate care
• diagnose nursing care
• dietetics
• disability care
• empower individuals, families and groups
• ensure safety of healthcare users
• evaluate nursing care
• evidence-based nursing care
• implement nursing care
• leadership in nursing
• palliative care
• participate in health personnel training
• patient autonomy
• person centred care
• plan nursing care
• promote inclusion
• provide nursing advice on healthcare
• provide treatment strategies for challenges to human health
• safe management of medicines
• solve problems in healthcare
• surgery
• use e-health and mobile health technologies
• use electronic health records in nursing
• work in multidisciplinary health teams

More generally, a nurse responsible for general care is also versed in:

• adapt leadership styles in healthcare
• address problems critically
• adhere to organisational guidelines
• adolescence medicine
• advise on healthy lifestyles
• apply organisational techniques
• apply sustainability principles in health care
• communicate in healthcare
• comply with legislation related to health care
• deal with emergency care situations
• develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
• educate on the prevention of illness
• empathise with the healthcare user
• first aid
• follow clinical guidelines
• general medicine
• geriatrics
• have computer literacy
• health care legislation
• human anatomy
• human physiology
• hygiene in a health care setting
• impact of social contexts on health
• implement fundamentals of nursing
• implement scientific decision making in healthcare
• infection control
• inform policy makers on health-related challenges
• initiate life preserving measures
• innovation in nursing
• interact with healthcare users
• listen actively
• manage information in health care
• manage personal professional development
• newborn care
• nursing principles
• nursing science
• paediatrics
• pathology
• pedagogy
• pharmacology
• primary care
• promote a positive image of nursing
• promote human rights
• provide health education
• provide professional care in nursing
• psychiatry
• psychology
• public health
• respond to changing situations in health care
• resuscitation
• scientific research methodology
• sociology
• work in a multicultural environment in health care

It also helps to know the following:

• carry out nurse-led discharge
• patient safety theories
• perform venous cannulation
• prescribe medication
• provide nursing care in community settings
• provide palliative care
• simulation-based clinical education
• use clinical reasoning
• use foreign languages for health-related research
• use foreign languages in patient care