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Transform clinical skills development and competency tracking

Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) for Nursing

Transform how clinical skills are taught, measured, tracked, and communicated to move clinical learning beyond checklists. 

New graduate nurses require extensive hospital-powered orientation to close the gap in practice readiness, creating an unsustainable burden on hospital resources. 

We need to bridge the divide between the academic preparation new nurse graduates have received and the practice-ready skillset they need to thrive in a clinical setting – developing their confidence and self-efficacy and allowing for transparency and accountability along their journey. 

Let’s reimagine how we teach and measure clinical skills to transform the transition to practice for new nurse graduates.

Clinical Learning Beyond Checklists

EPAs - entrustable professional activities – promote a deeper level of understanding and evaluation of the activities that make up each layer of skill acquisition. Tracking these activities as units of work enables the learner to absorb knowledge, skill, and attitude in a way that mirrors real-world practice. 

Keypath Connect pairs EPAs specifically designed for nursing with a robust, tech-enabled tracking solution,  bringing transparency and accountability to the process of developing, tracking, and assessing clinical skills in new nurses in the pursuit of practice-readiness.  

A graphic represents the journey to entrustment: EPAs allow the educator/preceptor and the learner to know exactly where they are in their journey toward professional entrustment.  This progression includes various levels of supervision.
What makes an EPA different?
Preview image of one of Keypath's entrustable professional activities for nurses on the topic of managing a patient experiencing pain.

EPAs offer an innovative approach to competency development beyond the acquisition of individual skills. An EPA encompasses the competencies and sub-competencies the learner must achieve to be entrusted to perform the work safely without supervision within a comprehensive context that promotes deep understanding. 

Keypath Connect’s Nursing EPAs reimagine clinical skills development to:

  • Bridge the education-practice gap
  • Streamline new nurse onboarding
  • Promote self-efficacy and embeddedness amongst new graduate nurses
The Keypath Connect Ecosystem

Unlock transformative partnerships with an ecosystem of universities and healthcare providers united by one mission – ensuring the development of practice-ready nurses to help alleviate staffing shortages and improve care delivery and patient outcomes. 

We’re bridging the education-practice gap - leveraging our deep expertise in healthcare-focused education and expanding network of university partners to build a sustainable, long-term solution to the critical issues in nursing. 

  • Connecting you with an engaged, practice-ready nursing workforce 
  • Enhancing clinical skills and quality of care 
  • Reducing costs, time, and turnover 
Keypath Connect brings together hospitals, universities, students, and other stakeholders to bridge the education-practice gap and improve the quality of clinical skills development and patient-care readiness for new nurses.
Reimagine clinical skills development and competency tracking to transform the transition to practice for new nurse graduates.