Objective At present,the internationally recognized tools of role competence assessment for advanced practice nurse(APN)included the Advanced Practitioner Evaluation Tool,APN Role Assessment Tool of Scarpa R,Modified Strong Advanced Practice Role Delineation(M-Strong APRD),and Performance Excellence and Accounta-bility Tool(PEAC Tool)and so on.The assessment items of APN role competence included patient quality and safe-ty indicators,nursing professional development indicators,multi-disciplinary cooperation indicators,and impact in-dicators on healthcare system.This paper aimed to summarize the methods of role competence assessment for APN,and to provide theoretical basis for APN role competence assessment in China.In clinical application,role ability e-valuation tools and indicators could be combined to comprehensively evaluate the multi-dimensional evaluation meth-od,so as to better define the independent contribution of APN.
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