V Skill HF-D9.1-001 sector-specific 14 skills
Nursing and personal care practice
Carries out nursing and personal care procedures for clients, from personal hygiene to reserved procedures, while observing their state of health.
How hrmforce measures this
- Assessment method
- Work sample test · rho 0.33 (SD 0.09)
- hrmforce instrument
- Knowledge test (client-specific), Work sample test, Competency Check
- Competency (50-framework)
- Commitment to Quality
- Trainability
- high
- Demand outlook 2026 to 2030
- rising
The candidate performs a representative work sample under standardised conditions.
Behavioural anchors
| Level | Behaviour at this level |
|---|---|
| N1 Guided | Cares for a client under supervision according to the care plan and reports deviant observations immediately to the person responsible. works under supervision and follows instruction · routine, one variable at a time · own task |
| N3 Proficient | Performs nursing procedures independently for clients with a fluctuating clinical picture and involves the physician in good time. sets own approach and seeks input proactively · several variables, some ambiguity · own team or process |
| N5 Leading | Develops guidelines for nursing practice in the institution, tests them against research and guides teams through their introduction. sets the standard and the policy · strategic, under high uncertainty · organisation, value chain or profession |
N2 and N4 are deliberately not anchored. Raters place them between the anchors, following the O*NET convention.
Underlying skills
These skills inherit the assessment route and the behavioural anchors of this construct.
| T | Skill | Definition | Demand outlook 2026 to 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|
| V | Providing wound care Wound care | Assesses a wound, cleans it and applies the correct dressing material according to the wound care policy. | stable |
| V | Administering subcutaneous and intramuscular injections Injection technique | Administers medication by injection under the skin or into the muscle according to protocol and authorisation. | stable |
| V | Urinary catheterisation Catheterisation | Inserts a urinary catheter in a client, cares for the catheter and monitors urine output. | stable |
| V | Inserting a peripheral IV line IV cannulation | Inserts a peripheral IV line, connects the infusion set and checks patency and the puncture site. | stable |
| V | Measuring vital signs Vital signs monitoring | Measures blood pressure, pulse, respiration, temperature and saturation and flags deviating values in a client. | stable |
| V | Applying the ABCDE approach ABCDE assessment | Assesses an acutely ill client step by step on airway, breathing, circulation, disability and exposure. | rising |
| V | Applying pressure ulcer prevention Pressure ulcer prevention | Assesses pressure ulcer risk, changes lying and sitting positions and deploys pressure relieving materials for a client. | stable |
| V | Fall prevention for clients Fall prevention | Estimates fall risk with a risk score, adapts the environment and agrees measures with the client. | rising |
| V | Providing oral care Oral hygiene care | Cares for a client's teeth, denture and oral mucosa and recognises inflammation or pain complaints. | stable |
| V | Providing stoma care Stoma care | Changes stoma appliances, assesses the skin around the stoma and instructs the client on self care. | stable |
| V | Administering tube feeding Enteral tube feeding | Checks tube position, administers enteral feeding by pump or syringe and flushes the tube afterwards. | stable |
| V | Providing palliative care Palliative care · End of life care | Cares for a client in the final phase of life, relieves symptoms and supports relatives around dying. | rising |
| V | Providing dementia care Dementia care | Guides a client with dementia in daily activities and uses experience oriented approaches when confusion arises. | rising |
| V | Carrying out telephone triage Telephone triage | Questions a caller about complaints, determines urgency with a triage standard and initiates the appropriate follow up. | stable |