Exploring nursing competence to care for older patients in municipal in-patient acute care: a qualitative study

Abstract

Aim: To identify critical aspects of nursing competence to care for older patients in the context of municipal in‐patient acute care. Background: An increasingly complex and advanced primary healthcare system re ‐quires attention to the extent of nursing competence in municipal services. However, competence in complex and advanced care settings must be explored using perspec‐tives which acknowledge the complexity of nurses' performance