Matrix of synthesis of results
| General nursing | Special nursing | |||||||||||||
| Al-Moteri, et al10 | Anthamatten et al15 | Lau et al9 | Mihaljevic et al16 | Zhou et al17 | Yang Yang et al18 | Li et al19 | Miranda et al20 | Moore et al21 | Surjadi, Sax et al22 | van Houwe-lingen et al23 | Chiang et al24 | Lai et al25 | Sum | |
| Health status assessment (including nursing admissions) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 12 |
| Diagnoses (prioritise nursing diagnoses, differential diagnoses) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| Care measures | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10 |
| Care documentation | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Care plans, protocols | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| Emergency/intensive care measures | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| (Psychological) support | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Patient education, guidance | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Joint decision-making | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Prevention and health promotion | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Participation in diagnostics and/or therapy | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| Evidence-based work | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Communication (including patient handover and presentation) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| Interprofessional work (including ward rounds, discharges) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Leadership/management | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| Palliative care | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
The articles were divided into general nursing and special nursing and mapped to the 16 areas of nursing education on the left. Number 1 means that EPAs have been developed in the respective area of nursing education, number 0 that none have been developed.
EPAs, entrustable professional activities.