| CanMEDS-role | Core concepts | Learning outcomes |
| Healthcare provider | Clinical reasoning | The continual process-based collection and analysis of data, designed to help the healthcare provider identify the patient's needs and problems and select the right outcomes and interventional procedures. |
| Healthcare provider | Providing the care | Providing comprehensive care by independently performing all the necessary nursing procedures (including risky procedures and procedures which are only allowed to be carried out by competent medical practitioners) in complex situations, having due regard for applicable laws and regulations and always keeping in mind the patient's overall condition. |
| Healthcare provider | Improving people's self-management skills | Helping patients, their loved ones and their social contacts improve their self-management skills, with a view to allowing them to be better able, despite their health issues, to perform activities of daily living and enjoy a better quality of life. |
| Healthcare provider | Referring patients to other doctors | Determining and describing the nature, duration, amount and purpose of the care and nursing the client needs and organising for them to receive that care and nursing, in consultation with the client, on the basis of the problems with which the patient has been diagnosed or of problems yet to be examined and diagnosed. |
| CanMEDS-role | Core concepts | Learning outcomes |
| Communicator | Personalised approach to communication | Actively listening to the patient, providing the patient with information, allowing them to make decisions with regard to the care with which he/she is to be provided, and treating the patient like a unique person; acting alternatively like a guide, coach, expert or adviser, depending on what is needed at the time. |
| Communicator | Using ICT | Utilising the latest information and communications technologies and providing patients with remote healthcare (eHealth), in addition to face-to-face meetings with the patients. |
| CanMEDS-role | Core concepts | Learning outcomes |
| Partner and collaborator | Professional relationship | Maintaining contact with the patient, their loved ones and social contacts, maintaining long-term care-based relationships and carefully cutting back on contacts as necessary. |
| Partner and collaborator | Joint decision-making | Systematically consulting the patient and their loved ones on the nursing care to be administered, ensuring that various sources of knowledge are explicitly considered, and taking into consideration the patient's values when decisions are to be made. |
| Partner and collaborator | Multidisciplinary collaboration | Acting on the basis of one's own expertise as a nurse and collaborating with representatives of one's own discipline and other disciplines (both from the healthcare industry and from other industries) on an equal footing with regard to multidisciplinary care and treatment goals. |
| Partner and collaborator | Continuity of care | Sharing knowledge and information so as to guarantee the uninterrupted involvement in the patient's therapy of the necessary healthcare providers over the course of time. |
| CanMEDS-role | Core concepts | Learning outcomes |
| Self-reflecting professional adhering to the principles of EBP | Research skills | In situations where care must be provided and where things must be organised, engaging in critical analysis and examinations, reflecting on one's findings, being able to account for one's own decisions on the basis of different sources of information, taking a methodical approach, including a thorough analysis of the problem, and completing the entire examination cycle so as to improve a particular professional situation. |
| Self-reflecting professional adhering to the principles of EBP | Applying the principles of EBP | In consultation with the patient and/or their contacts, one's colleagues and representatives of other disciplines, actively seeking to find recent knowledge as presented in academic journals, guidelines or protocols and weighing this knowledge against one's own professional expertise and the patient's knowledge, wishes and preferences, or those of their contacts. |
| Self-reflecting professional adhering to the principles of EBP | Professional development | Proactively seeking to obtain and maintain a high level of nursing expertise and helping others do the same, and actively contributing to the search for and development and exchange of new knowledge or new types of knowledge. |
| Self-reflecting professional adhering to the principles of EBP | Reflective practice | Critically reflecting on one's own conduct as a nurse as related to the professional code of conduct and professional values, and presenting thorough arguments and a heart for one's patients in discussions on patients with both professionals from one's own discipline and from other disciplines, taking into account the patient's emotions and interests, and always remembering that medical ethics must be upheld. |
| Self-reflecting professional adhering to the principles of EBP | Moral sensitivity | Displaying continual compassion and sensitivity to the patient's wishes, needs and associated emotions, and responding to them in an appropriate and patient-specific way, thus ensuring that the patient feels heard and understood. |
| CanMEDS-role | Core concepts | Learning outcomes |
| Health promotor | Prevention-oriented analysis | Analysing the patient's conduct and environment to determine how they contribute to the patient's health problems and other patients' health problems. |
| Health promotor | Promoting a healthy lifestyle | Helping people establish a healthy lifestyle in relation to existing or potential health issues. |
| CanMEDS-role | Core concepts | Learning outcomes |
| Organiser | Discipline-specific leadership | Having an enterprising, coach-like and result-oriented attitude so as to be able to take charge of one's own discipline. |
| Organiser | Care coordination | Taking the initiative in organising the patient's care, consulting the patient and arranging things with the various healthcare providers and healthcare organisations so as to ensure that the patient receives proper care in accordance with the treatment plan. |
| Organiser | Promoting safety | Continually and methodically contributing to the promotion and safeguarding of safe conditions for both patients and healthcare providers. |
| Organiser | Nursing entrepreneurship | Understanding and acting in accordance with the financial, economic and organisational interests of various types of healthcare providers. |
| CanMEDS-role | Core concepts | Learning outcomes |
| Healthcare professional and promotor of high-quality care | Promoting quality assurance (providing high-quality care in BN2020) | Administering high-quality care and monitoring and safeguarding the quality of the nursing care being administered in a methodical and critical manner. |
| Healthcare professional and promotor of high-quality care | Participating in quality assurance | Making a proactive contribution to the healthcare organisation's quality assurance strategies. |
| Healthcare professional and promotor of high-quality care | Professional conduct | Acting and conducting oneself in accordance with professional standards and the professional code of conduct, being accountable for one's own decisions and upholding the good reputation of the profession. |