Design of the study Inclusive, consensus methodologies were employed with the intention of maximising the contributions and own- ership from the profession. The first step in achieving this was the development of a sampling frame in order to have a representative sample of the overall nursing population; academics, managers and clinicians from a range of clinical practice settings. Secondly, the skills areas audit data was utilised from Brown et al's(2015)'s[1] audit of nursing programme curriculum documents in Australia and third consensus methods in the form of modified Delphi rounds were used to engage experts in the field to iteratively refine the skills areas list(Wilkes 2015(39); Asselin& Harper 2014[40]; Hasson et al 2000(41]; Delbecq, Van de Ven& Gustafson 1975(42).