{"title":"Defining Nurse Practitioner Core Entrustable Professional Activities: Essential Step Toward Competency-Based Education.","authors":"Jeanne Moore, Tracey Chan, Julianne Doucette, Terri Lipps, Dianne Slager","doi":"10.1097/NNE.0000000000001673","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>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.</p><p><strong>Purpose: </strong>This study sought to develop and validate a set of EPAs that reflect the core activities performed by all nurse practitioners (NPs).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>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.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Consensus was reached after 2 Delphi rounds.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>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.</p>","PeriodicalId":2,"journal":{"name":"ACS Applied Bio Materials","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.6000,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"ACS Applied Bio Materials","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1097/NNE.0000000000001673","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2024/6/10 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"MATERIALS SCIENCE, BIOMATERIALS","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
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.