As a Specialist Nurse, you will need to master following:

• accept own accountability
• 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
• carry out nurse-led discharge
• coach individuals in specialised nursing care
• communicate in specialised nursing care
• comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
• contribute to continuity of health care
• contribute to the advancements in specialised nursing care
• coordinate care
• diagnose nursing care
• empower individuals, families and groups
• ensure safety of healthcare users
• evaluate nursing care
• evaluation in specialised nursing care
• implement nursing care
• operate in a specific field of nursing care
• participate in health personnel training
• plan nursing care in a specialised field
• promote health in specialised care
• promote inclusion
• provide nursing advice on healthcare
• provide treatment strategies for challenges to human health
• refer healthcare users
• solve problems in healthcare
• specialist nursing care
• use e-health and mobile health technologies
• use electronic health records in nursing
• work in multidisciplinary health teams

More generally, a specialist nurse is also versed in:

• adapt leadership styles in healthcare
• address problems critically
• adhere to organisational guidelines
• advise on healthy lifestyles
• 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
• follow clinical guidelines
• have computer literacy
• impact of social contexts on health
• implement fundamentals of nursing
• implement scientific decision making in healthcare
• inform policy makers on health-related challenges
• initiate life preserving measures
• interact with healthcare users
• listen actively
• manage information in health care
• manage personal professional development
• promote a positive image of nursing
• promote human rights
• provide health education
• provide professional care in nursing
• respond to changing situations in health care
• work in a multicultural environment in health care

It also helps to know the following:

• 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