Table 1. Core competencies for the nurse in the prevention and control of healthcare-related infections. Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil, 2015 – 2016.

Core Competencies	Coefficient of variation*
Education and professional development	11%
Communication	10%
Decision making	10%
Ethics	9%

*It was considered as consensus the competences that reached median 5 and coefficient of variation less than 20%