Entrustable Professional Activities in Nurse Practitioner Education

Abstract

How do you measure trust in nurse practitioner education? A growing body of literature is aimed at assessing health professional learners’ clinical competencies from a readiness for clinical practice perspective via an evaluation of entrustable professional activities (EPAs). This review describes the clinical assessment process and tools as part of a major curriculum reform that faculty at the University of California San Francisco, School of Nursing developed and implemented for evaluating Adult Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner students’ readiness for practice.