What’s the Quality Like of a Free Product – Read the Fine Print!

Would you trust your body to an unlicensed physician – then why trust your competency assessments to a company without clinicians on staff?

Mistakes in both of these departments could have detrimental effects. Staffing the wrong caregiver costs facilities thousands of $$$ in liability exposure and skill deficiency.

Consider these points when choosing a competency assessment provider:

1. Be careful of companies that CLAIM they analyze their assessments using TVAP™ yet have NO formal training on how to use and implement the software




2. Be suspicious of companies that allow their clients to manipulate the assessment’s questions and answers. How could they possibly insure each manipulated item has meaningful reliability and validity? Do the modifications adhere to the Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures linking to specific job duties and knowledges, skills, and/or abilities identified in a formal job analysis?




3. Be watchful of companies that have NO security on their assessment content.
   - i.e. releasing all questions and answers to the public = meaningless reliablity




4. Be cautious of companies that set arbitrary 80% or 85% pass/fail cutoff scores on ALL of their exams. IF a company truly uses TVAP or other statistical software to analyze assessment data, EACH exam should have its OWN pass/fail cutoff obtained through a thorough test analysis. Arbitrary cutoffs are a HUGE red flag and are INDEFENSIBLE in a court of law.




5. Be leery of companies that offer clinical assessments, yet do NOT have a Nurse or Clinician on staff. How committed could they be to keeping content current?

According to some companies’ marketing material for competency testing, “there are no additional fees.” Remember the old saying, “you get what you pay for.”

NurseTesting.com has been in the competency assessment business for over 6 years and was created by an RN with the mission of providing the best and most current exam material in the industry. NurseTesting.com has 7 full-time clinicians on staff.

In 2007, NurseTesting implemented a new exam validation process to reduce adverse impact and increase the reliability and validity of its assessments. NurseTesting received training from Biddle Consulting Group (BCG) on how to conduct job analysis and item writing workshops as well as utilize BCG’s TVAP™ (Test Validation and Analysis Program) and AutoGOJA™ (Automated Guidelines Oriented Job Analysis).

In accordance with the federal Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (1978), NurseTesting began following a formal content validation methodology for the creation of new clinical assessments as well as for updating current assessments. Through the use of over 100 subject matter experts, NurseTesting works diligently to keep its content current by conducting annual reviews to ensure relevant, reliable, and valid content.

NurseTesting has conducted over 30 job analyses/job audits since 2007 and insures consistent monitoring of its assessments for adverse impact, poor reliabilities, or assessment deficiencies.

Choose the provider that lives and breathes testing…
– NurseTesting.com –
…the leader in job knowledge competency assessments for the Healthcare Industry.