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. 2024 Sep-Oct;49(5):235-240.
doi: 10.1097/NNE.0000000000001673. Epub 2024 Jun 10.

Defining Nurse Practitioner Core Entrustable Professional Activities: Essential Step Toward Competency-Based Education

Jeanne Moore  1 , Tracey Chan, Julianne Doucette, Terri Lipps, Dianne Slager
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Defining Nurse Practitioner Core Entrustable Professional Activities: Essential Step Toward Competency-Based Education

Jeanne Moore et al. Nurse Educ. 2024 Sep-Oct.

Abstract

Background: Gaps between educational preparation and clinical practice readiness have led to innovative approaches to competence assessment. Entrustable professional activities (EPAs) show promise as a competence assessment framework in graduate nursing education.

Purpose: This study sought to develop and validate a set of EPAs that reflect the core activities performed by all nurse practitioners (NPs).

Methods: Eight EPAs were developed. A Delphi approach was used to validate the EPAs by NP practice experts located across the United States and representing most NP populations.

Results: Consensus was reached after 2 Delphi rounds.

Conclusions: The EPAs developed and validated in this study map multiple advanced-level NP competencies to workplace expectations and provide a shared framework for competency-based workplace assessment among NP preceptors from varied health care professions.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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