Entrustable Professional Activities for Quality and Patient Safety

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• Personal Author:
  Dolansky MA ; Englander R ; Wagner LM
• Description:
  Background: Further efforts are warranted to identify innovative approaches to best implement competencies in nursing education. To bridge the gap between competency-based education, practice, and implementation of knowledge, skills, and attitudes, one emerging approach is entrustable professional activities (EPAs). Purpose: The objective of this study was to introduce the concept of EPAs as a framework for curriculum and assessment in graduate nursing education and training. Methods: Seven steps are provided to develop EPAs for nurses through the example of a quality and safety EPA. The example incorporates the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) patient safety competencies and evidence-based literature. Findings: EPAs provide a practical approach to integrating competencies in nursing as quality and safety are the cornerstones of nursing practice, education, and research. Discussion: Introducing the EPA concept in nursing is timely as we look to identify opportunities to enhance nurse practitioner (NP) training models and implement nurse residency programs. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Curriculum Education Health Personnel Occupational Health Safety Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Curriculum Competency Based Education Entrustable Professional Activity Graduate Nursing Health Care Workers Nurses Nursing Quality Improvement Safety Practices Training
• ISSN:
  0029-6554
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  California ; Minnesota ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 5 ; OSHA Region 9
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  237-243
• Volume:
  66
• Issue:
  3
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20056608
• Citation:
  Nurs Outlook 2018 May-Jun; 66(3):237-243
• Contact Point Address:
  Laura M. Wagner, University of California, San Francisco, School of Nursing, 2 Koret Way #511R, San Francisco, CA 94143
• Email:
  laura.wagner@ucsf.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2018
• Performing Organization:
  University of California, Berkeley
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Nursing Outlook
• End Date:
  20250630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:2aa5437dee5d20466b4317074392e06bd69e3e7f371782be7dadb227c919adfd544c3f5a0ca86f7ddb05fca86861136e2906f45e8fb1993c781ae9ed0b31a080
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/214183/cdc_214183_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 170.93 KB ]