Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, demands have been voiced calling for profound changes to the structure of healthcare systems to meet future challenges. Nurses are at the heart of such systems; without them, no such restructuring would be possible. To prepare nurses to take on this task, healthcare professionals from across the sector need to think about the changes that will occur in healthcare strategies and how they will affect the needs of patients. All of this change will involve a new system of nursing education, based on the new competencies nurses will need to acquire over the coming decade in order to face the interconnected challenges of our global society.

This will unquestionably involve a reform of nursing education. Nurses have many vital competencies that can help people improve adherence to the rules of healthcare systems, meet the population's future needs, and further advance epidemiological circumstances.

In this Special Issue, researchers, teachers, and academics are invited to present their work on nursing competencies based on new advances in nursing. Articles, reviews, and concept papers might focus on the evolution of nursing skills or other related concepts based on contemporary nursing.

Possible research topics include but are not limited to:

• Meta-analyses and systematic reviews of nursing assessment instruments currently in use;
• Research that validates the currently used evaluation instruments;
• Studies that quantify the psychometric properties of assessment instruments;
• Research comparing several assessment instruments used to measure the same domain;
• Cross-sectional research for the purpose of culturally adapting assessment instruments in certain nations.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Ippolito Notarnicola
Dr. Alessandro Stievano
Guest Editors

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• clinical competence
• professional competence
• nursing
• healthcare
• healthcare education