Table 2.

Final ENTS taxonomy

	Skill		General skills
1	Communication	A	With nursing staff
		B	With trainee
		C	With colleagues
		D	With the patient
		E	With relatives
2	Teamwork	A	Good working relationship/communication with team
		B	Seeks opinion of team
3	Leadership	A	Towards a trainee—appropriate supervision and role model
		B	Of the team
		C	Of the unit
4	Confidence		Has appropriate level of confidence in own abilities, judgement and in the capabilities of the team
5	Emotional control	A	Awareness of own emotions and emotional reaction, and ability to control these appropriately
		B	Awareness of other’s emotions and emotional reaction, and adjusts own behaviour appropriately

	Skill		Preprocedure	Intraprocedure	Postprocedure
6	Planning	A	Makes assessment of preprocedural risk
		B	Ensures appropriate environment at the start of the procedure
		C	Ensures preprocedure organisation and briefing of team
7	Assessing situation		Continually re-assesses situation; collecting data, establishing facts and re-evaluating risk assessment
8	Judgement and decision making	A	Has self-awareness of own abilities and limitations
		B	Recognises when own abilities or the environment are not appropriate for the situation and makes appropriate decisions
9	Focus	A		Has appropriate level of concentration for the situation
		B		Keeps control of the environment appropriate to match the situation
10	Awareness	A		Of patient’s condition and wishes
		B		Of team
		C		Of procedural progression
11	Problem recognition			Ability to recognise when an untoward event has occurred
12	Problem management	A		Ability to ‘switch mode’ to deal with a problem
		B		Ability to institute appropriate management
		C		Knowing when to ask for help
13	Responsibility	A		For own behaviour and actions during procedure
		B			For follow-up postprocedure
14	Reflection	A			Postprocedure of what went right or wrong
		B			Feedback of reflection to other members of the team
		C			Making changes based on reflection to improve practice