Predicting Baccalaureate Nursing Students' First-Semester Outcomes: HESI Admission Assessment

Journal of Professional Nursing

Volumn 29, Issue 2 SUPPL1, 2013, Pages

  Underwood, Lynn M ^a   Williams, Laura L ^a   Lee, Marilyn B ^a   Brunnert, Kimberly A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH ALABAMA   (United States)

^b Psychometrics HESI Review and Testing   (United States)

Author keywords

Baccalaureate program; Benchmarks; Predictive validity; Specialty exams; Standardized tests

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875958168     PISSN: 87557223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.profnurs.2012.07.003     Document Type: Article

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