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Relevance of the test content of the Korean Nursing Licensing Examination to nursing job

PURPOSE: This study aimed at identifying if there is a relevance of content of the Korean Nursing Licensing Examination (KNLE) revised in 2014 to nursing job. It will be able to provide the validity of revised content of the KNLE. METHODS: From October 13 to November 13, 2015, print version of 8 dut...

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Autores principales: Park, In Sook, Suh, Yeon Ok, Park, Hae Sook, Ahn, Soo Yeon, Kang, So Young, Kim, Kwang Sung
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korea Health Personnel Licensing Examination Institute 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4914486/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27270986
http://dx.doi.org/10.3352/jeehp.2016.13.23
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description PURPOSE: This study aimed at identifying if there is a relevance of content of the Korean Nursing Licensing Examination (KNLE) revised in 2014 to nursing job. It will be able to provide the validity of revised content of the KNLE. METHODS: From October 13 to November 13, 2015, print version of 8 duties with 49-tasks, 155-job item questionnaires were distributed to 1,305 hospital nurses and 202 nursing faculties in Korea. Results were treated by descriptive statistics and comparison analysis. There were responses from 946 nurses or professors (72.5%). RESULTS: The relevance of test content of KNLE to nursing job was shown to be valid with over 3 points out of 4 point Likert scale in all items: from 3.23 at lowest to 3.64 at top. CONCLUSION: Above results showed that the revised version of KNLE in 2014 was valid to test the nursing students’ knowledge for job performance.
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spelling pubmed-49144862016-06-29 Relevance of the test content of the Korean Nursing Licensing Examination to nursing job Park, In Sook Suh, Yeon Ok Park, Hae Sook Ahn, Soo Yeon Kang, So Young Kim, Kwang Sung J Educ Eval Health Prof Technical Report PURPOSE: This study aimed at identifying if there is a relevance of content of the Korean Nursing Licensing Examination (KNLE) revised in 2014 to nursing job. It will be able to provide the validity of revised content of the KNLE. METHODS: From October 13 to November 13, 2015, print version of 8 duties with 49-tasks, 155-job item questionnaires were distributed to 1,305 hospital nurses and 202 nursing faculties in Korea. Results were treated by descriptive statistics and comparison analysis. There were responses from 946 nurses or professors (72.5%). RESULTS: The relevance of test content of KNLE to nursing job was shown to be valid with over 3 points out of 4 point Likert scale in all items: from 3.23 at lowest to 3.64 at top. CONCLUSION: Above results showed that the revised version of KNLE in 2014 was valid to test the nursing students’ knowledge for job performance. Korea Health Personnel Licensing Examination Institute 2016-06-02 /pmc/articles/PMC4914486/ /pubmed/27270986 http://dx.doi.org/10.3352/jeehp.2016.13.23 Text en © 2016, Korea Health Personnel Licensing Examination Institute This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4914486/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27270986
http://dx.doi.org/10.3352/jeehp.2016.13.23
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