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Clinical governance

Competencies

Obtaining specimens for microbiological analysis is a key component in the patient's assessment and subsequent nursing care. Therefore, practitioners must be competent and feel confident that they have the knowledge, skill and understanding to obtain and correctly process samples for specimen collection (NMC [165]).

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Clinical governance

Competencies