Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-17-2025
Abstract
Introduction: Guidance for Pediatric Nurse Practitioner (PNP) competency-based education (CBE) is provided by the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF) and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) The Essentials: Core Competencies for Professional Nursing Education (“Essentials”). The 2021 AACN Essentials update prompted a significant shift from traditional to (CBE)for Nurse Practitioner (NP) faculty. NONPF has responded, updating its NP Role Core Competencies and domains to be congruent with the AACN 2021 Essentials, but NONPF's population-specific competencies remain unchanged since 2013. Methods: Two PNP faculty conducted a multistep crosswalk between the NONPF 2013 population-based competencies for Primary and Acute Care PNPs to the AACN Essentials competencies. Results: The crosswalk provides CBE implementation support for PNP educators. Discussion: The authors introduce Clarity to Competencies, an innovative exercise adapted from Madness to Methods, based on the NONPF to AACN crosswalk, to provide novel methods for teaching and assessing PNP competencies.
Keywords
advanced practice nursing, clinical competency, competency-based education, educational measurement, pediatric nurse practitioner education
Language
English
Publication Title
Journal of Pediatric Health Care
Rights
© 2025 The Authors. This is an Open Access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Creative Commons License
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Recommended Citation
Banks, Kristina L. and Savrin, Carol L., "A Novel Approach to Competency-Based Education for Pediatric Nurse Practitioners: Bringing Clarity to Competencies" (2025). Faculty Scholarship. 1379.
https://commons.case.edu/facultyworks/1379
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