Competencies expected of undergraduate nursing students: A scoping review.

"the synthesis of existing literature related to the core competencies of nursing students may help identify and clarify known issues and guide future research and clinical practice 3 this review aimed to identify the core competencies necessary for undergraduate nursing students to enter nursing work 4 4 1 the methodological steps suggested by the joanna briggs institute (jbi) (peters et al ) guided by the pager (patterns advances gaps evidence for practice and research recommendations) framework to improve the quality of reporting (bradbury-jones & aveyard ) and reported according to the prisma-scr (preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses extension for scoping reviews) checklist (data s1 ).; data s1: click here for additional data file."

"CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT The authors declare that they have no competing interests."

"FUNDING INFORMATION This article is part of research approved with the financial support of the deputy of research and technology of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences."