Applicants' success in the ethics entrance exam: A cross-sectional study.

Background: Student selection is the first step in recruiting future social and healthcare professionals. Ethically competent professionals are needed in social and healthcare. It is important to select applicants who have the best possible abilities to develop their ethical competence in the future.

Development and psychometric evaluation of the Emotional Intelligence Test (EMI-T) for social care and healthcare student selection.

Aim: To develop an emotional intelligence (EI) test and evaluate its psychometrics for social and healthcare student selection.

Design: A cross-sectional methodological design.

Methods: The test was developed based on a systematic review and focus group interviews.

Instruments used in graduating nursing students' exit exams: an integrative review.

This review provides a comprehensive analysis of undergraduate nursing students' exit examinations and indicates that more clinical evaluation methods should be developed to ensure adequate competence.

Nursing applicants' reasoning skills and factors related to them: A cross-sectional study.

Background: The assessment of reasoning skills is recommended in undergraduate nursing student selection. Reasoning skills are crucial for sound decision-making, improving patient safety and are necessary from the very beginning of studies. Nursing applicants' reasoning skills based on the reasoning process have not been previously measured.

Development and psychometric testing of Reasoning Skills test for nursing student selection: An item response theory approach.

Aims: To develop and psychometrically test the Reasoning Skills (ReSki) test assessing undergraduate nursing applicants' reasoning skills for student selection purposes.

Design: A methodological cross-sectional design was applied for the psychometric testing.

Methods: The ReSki test was developed as part of a wider electronic entrance examination.

Identifying reasoning skills for the selection of undergraduate nursing students: a focus group study.

Reasoning is a cognitive skill crucial to making solid decisions. The assessment of reasoning skills in nursing student selection is studied scarcely. To identify which reasoning skills should be assessed when selecting undergraduate nursing applicants.

Nursing education research in Finland--A review of doctoral dissertations.

Objectives: The aim of this literature review was to describe the focus of nursing education research in Finnish doctoral dissertations in the field of nursing and caring sciences between the years 1979-2014. In addition, the characteristics (methods, study informants and reporting of validity, reliability, and research ethics) of the dissertations were described.

Methods And Data: A literature review was carried out.