With the launch of our new clinical assessments, we recognize the necessity to provide you with the ability to remediate clinicians when they don’t pass a particular assessment. In order to protect the security, validity, and reliability of our new clinical assessments, we will no longer be displaying any assessment questions on our results pages. However, we have developed a tool to assist you with the remediation process.

Each new clinical assessment will contain a Form A and Form B option. When a clinician has taken clinical assessment Form A, you will have access to their results page. The results page will display the overall applicants score as a % as well as a “Pass”/”Fail” message. This Pass / Fail message is automatically generated comparing the applicants score to the Angoff Cutoff score also displayed on the results page. This enables you to make a quick determination of whether or not the candidate passed.

If a clinician’s score does not meet the assessments unique Angoff cutoff score and they receive a “Fail”, you will have the option to click on the link contained on the results page to access our course content outline for that particular assessment. This outline can be utilized for remediation purposes only after taking a clinical assessment and is intended to guide the clinician in the overall objectives and content that will be assessed within a particular assessment. You will need to click on the link contained within the results page to access the content outline.

Once you have had the opportunity to review the content outline with the clinician and the clinician has had the opportunity to review their materials or reference tools, you can then elect to administer the clinical assessment Form B for that specialty. If the clinician does not obtain a satisfactory score on the second attempt, it’s NurseTesting’s recommendation that the clinician not be given either Form A or B for a third attempt. Since both Form A and B are accessing the same clinical content, administering either form close to the original administration may not provide accurate and valid results.

NurseTesting just released the new Diagnostic Percentile Rankings to their completed exam’s “Details” page.  With continuous live updates, these percentile rankings add a new diagnostic tool for a facility’s internal employees.

The former “Details” page only housed the Overall Score for the exam completed. Each “Details” page now shows two additional percentile scores:

1. National - showing how many other exam takers the person scored higher than nationally, and
2. Company – illustrating how many exam takers the individual scored higher than within the company.

To view the new Diagnostic Percentile Rankings from the “View Scores” page for a particular caregiver:

Select the option for “Details.”

Then select to “Show Percentiles.”

You will see both the “National Rank” and “Company Rank.”

It is important to remember that these ranking only show the percentage of other test takers who received lower scores. Therefore, the ranking could be a bit misleading if many people received high scores in comparison to the individual, or if only a limited number of individuals took the same exam. A person never receives percentile rankings of 100% due to the inability to score better than their own score.

NurseTesting recommends these rankings be used by facilities as a diagnostic tool for internal staff and discourages utilizing them as a pre-screening tool for agencies. The “Overall Score” should be the only pre-screening tool applied to selecting candidates for employment. For this reason, the percentile scores will not appear on the generated PDF version of the “Details” Page.

Check back often to see how the rankings for a particular individual change! The real-time updates keep these rankings relevant.