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PALOMINO MORAL, P.A. et al. The European Higher Education Space and the Nursing Competence. Index Enferm [online]. 2005, vol.14, n.48-49, pp.50-53. ISSN 1699-5988.

The Tuning Project aims at promoting the construction of a European Higher Education Space through a process of debate and reflection on the role of the universities in training qualified students for their future professional duties in the 21st century. For this purpose, deep transformations will have to be implemented with regard to the teaching/learning process, the role of teachers and students, the new definition of the credits system, etc. The concept of competence is a major constituent of the organization of the curriculum. Defining that competence will permit to analyse duty performance, guide teaching procedures towards concrete objectives and promote a new learner-based educational system. This articles analyses the concept of competence and its relation to nursing attention and care.