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

• Published in: Journal of educational evaluation for health professions Vol. 13; p. 23
• Main Authors: Park, In Sook, Suh, Yeon Ok, Park, Hae Sook, Ahn, Soo Yeon, Kang, So Young, Kim, Kwang Sung
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Korea (South) Korea Health Personnel Licensing Examination Institute 2016
• Subjects: Attitude of Health Personnel; Clinical Competence - standards; Community Health Centers; Disease control; Education, Nursing; Educational Measurement - standards; Faculty, Nursing; Hospitals; Humans; Infections; Job Description; Knowledge; korea; Licenses; Licensing examinations; Licensure, Nursing - standards; Nurses; Nurses - standards; Nursing care; nursing licensure; nursing students; Physiology; Questionnaires; Republic of Korea; Risk factors; University professors; Validity; Work; work performance; United States > US; Nursing students; Work performance; Knowledge; Nursing licensure; Korea
• ISSN: 1975-5937; 1975-5937
• DOI: 10.3352/jeehp.2016.13.23

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.
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%).
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.
Above results showed that the revised version of KNLE in 2014 was valid to test the nursing students' knowledge for job performance.