How granular is your Essentials map

We’re finishing a crosswalk that aligns each course outcome to the AACN Essentials domains and the NGN clinical judgment model, and I’m wrestling with how granular the evidence needs to be for CCNE/NLN CNEA reviewers. For those who wrapped a 2024–25 cycle, did one artifact per competency per level satisfy expectations, and which platform — Watermark, ExamSoft, or a well-structured spreadsheet — held up during the site visit?

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“Rabbits can’t vomit” — same energy: the only venomous primate is the slow loris. In our skills lab we treat any nip as a venom exposure: 15‑minute flush, immediate documentation, and epi + airway kit at hand. Would love a shared SOP for exotics alongside last week’s heatwave prep.

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Wrapped CCNE this fall: “one artifact per competency per level” passed, but only when it included the rubric with performance level and a tagged student sample. We mapped in Watermark and pushed NGN steps via ExamSoft item tags, then gave reviewers a one‑page heat map export. Caveat: they balked at syllabus‑only evidence — add at least one scored work sample or they’ll ask for follow‑up.

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We passed NLN CNEA last spring using one artifact per competency per level, but for NGN clinical judgment we added a second clinical sample plus an ExamSoft Outcomes report tied to item‑level tags. Reviewers cared less about platform than a breadcrumb trail — our 1‑page matrix (course outcome → Essentials domain → CJM cue) and rubric alignment matched what @s_wilson11 noted.

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