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Design and implementation of an online admissions interview for selection to nursing and midwifery programmes: a partnership approach

BACKGROUND: The recent surge in applications to nursing in the United Kingdom together with the shift towards providing virtual interviews through the use of video platforms has provided an opportunity to review selection methodologies to meet a new set of challenges. However there remains the requi...

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Autores principales: Traynor, Marian, Dunleavy, Stephanie, McIlfatrick, Sonja, Fitzsimons, Donna, Stevenson, Michael, McEvoy, Roisin, Mulvenna, Caroline
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9575628/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36253769
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12912-022-01058-y
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author Traynor, Marian
Dunleavy, Stephanie
McIlfatrick, Sonja
Fitzsimons, Donna
Stevenson, Michael
McEvoy, Roisin
Mulvenna, Caroline
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Dunleavy, Stephanie
McIlfatrick, Sonja
Fitzsimons, Donna
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McEvoy, Roisin
Mulvenna, Caroline
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description BACKGROUND: The recent surge in applications to nursing in the United Kingdom together with the shift towards providing virtual interviews through the use of video platforms has provided an opportunity to review selection methodologies to meet a new set of challenges. However there remains the requirement to use selection methods which are evidence-based valid and reliable even under these new challenges. METHOD: This paper reports an evaluation study of applicants to nursing and midwifery and reports on how to plan and use online interviews for in excess of 3000 applicants to two schools of nursing in Northern Ireland. Data is reported from Participants, Assessors and Administrators who were asked to complete an online evaluation using Microsoft Forms. RESULTS: A total of 1559 participants completed the questionnaire. The majority were aged 17–20. The findings provide evidence to support the validity and reliability of the online interview process. Importantly the paper reports on the design and implementation of a fully remote online interview process that involved a collaboration with two schools of nursing without compromising the rigour of the admissions process. The paper provides practical, quantitative, and qualitative reasons for concluding that the online remote selection process generated reliable data to support its use in the selection of candidates to nursing and midwifery. CONCLUSION: There are significant challenges in moving to online interviews and the paper discusses the challenges and reflects on some of the broader issues associated with selection to nursing and midwifery. The aim of the paper is to provide a platform for discussion amongst other nursing schools who might be considering major changes to their admissions processes.
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spelling pubmed-95756282022-10-17 Design and implementation of an online admissions interview for selection to nursing and midwifery programmes: a partnership approach Traynor, Marian Dunleavy, Stephanie McIlfatrick, Sonja Fitzsimons, Donna Stevenson, Michael McEvoy, Roisin Mulvenna, Caroline BMC Nurs Research BACKGROUND: The recent surge in applications to nursing in the United Kingdom together with the shift towards providing virtual interviews through the use of video platforms has provided an opportunity to review selection methodologies to meet a new set of challenges. However there remains the requirement to use selection methods which are evidence-based valid and reliable even under these new challenges. METHOD: This paper reports an evaluation study of applicants to nursing and midwifery and reports on how to plan and use online interviews for in excess of 3000 applicants to two schools of nursing in Northern Ireland. Data is reported from Participants, Assessors and Administrators who were asked to complete an online evaluation using Microsoft Forms. RESULTS: A total of 1559 participants completed the questionnaire. The majority were aged 17–20. The findings provide evidence to support the validity and reliability of the online interview process. Importantly the paper reports on the design and implementation of a fully remote online interview process that involved a collaboration with two schools of nursing without compromising the rigour of the admissions process. The paper provides practical, quantitative, and qualitative reasons for concluding that the online remote selection process generated reliable data to support its use in the selection of candidates to nursing and midwifery. CONCLUSION: There are significant challenges in moving to online interviews and the paper discusses the challenges and reflects on some of the broader issues associated with selection to nursing and midwifery. The aim of the paper is to provide a platform for discussion amongst other nursing schools who might be considering major changes to their admissions processes. BioMed Central 2022-10-17 /pmc/articles/PMC9575628/ /pubmed/36253769 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12912-022-01058-y Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Dunleavy, Stephanie
McIlfatrick, Sonja
Fitzsimons, Donna
Stevenson, Michael
McEvoy, Roisin
Mulvenna, Caroline
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title Design and implementation of an online admissions interview for selection to nursing and midwifery programmes: a partnership approach
title_full Design and implementation of an online admissions interview for selection to nursing and midwifery programmes: a partnership approach
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title_short Design and implementation of an online admissions interview for selection to nursing and midwifery programmes: a partnership approach
title_sort design and implementation of an online admissions interview for selection to nursing and midwifery programmes: a partnership approach
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9575628/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36253769
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12912-022-01058-y
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