Primary Use – Selection
Assessment Type  – Mix of competency, personality, biodata
Job Level – All Nursing levels/types
Job Type  – Nursing
Number of Items – 119
Estimated Time – 75 minutes (timed)
Administration Format – Proctored or Unproctored

The Nursing Career Battery (NCB) helps accelerate and improve hiring by quickly identifying individuals who possess the profile critical to success in today’s fast moving and changing health care environment. The NCB can be used as part of a process for hiring new nursing employees or as a way to place current employees into new or existing nursing roles.

The assessment has a maximum time limit of 75 minutes but typically takes 35 – 40 minutes.

DDI’s Nursing Career Battery is appropriate for candidates applying for patient facing nurse positions across functional areas in any health care provider environment.

Common Job Titles:

• Registered Nurse
• Nurse

It Assesses:

CRITICAL THINKING: Identifying and understanding issues, problems, and opportunities; comparing data from different sources to draw conclusions; using effective approaches for choosing a course of action or developing appropriate solutions; taking action that is consistent with available facts, constraints, and probable consequences.

DEMONSTRATING SAFETY ADVOCACY: Taking responsibility for conditions that affect patients’, own, and others’ safety; identifying conditions that might cause health or safety hazards and taking action to remove those hazards.

DELIVERING HIGH QUALITY WORK: Setting high standards of performance for self and others; assuming responsibility and accountability for successfully completing assignments or tasks; self-imposing standards of excellence rather than having standards imposed.

DEMONSTRATING PATIENT/CUSTOMER FOCUS AND COMPASSION: Ensuring that the internal or external patient/customer perspective is a driving force behind strategic priorities, business decisions, organizational processes, and individual activities; crafting and implementing service practices that meet patient/customers’ and own organization’s needs; promoting and operationalizing patient/customer service as a value.

COLLABORATION: Working cooperatively with others to help a team or work group achieve its goals.

EDUCATING PATIENTS AND PROMOTING HEALTH: Supporting and instructing the patient and patient’s caregivers in the clinical procedures, equipment, and lifestyle changes needed to achieve positive outcomes.

DEMONSTRATING A LEARNING ORIENTATION: Actively identifying new areas for learning; regularly creating and taking advantage of learning opportunities; using newly gained knowledge and skill on the job and learning through their application.

PRIORITIZING TIME AND MULTITASKING: Establishing an action plan for self and others to complete work efficiently and on time by setting priorities, establishing timelines, and leveraging resources.

HANDLING STRESS EFFECTIVELY: Maintaining stable performance under pressure or opposition (e.g., experiencing time pressure, conflict, or job ambiguity); handling stress in a manner that is acceptable to others and to the organization.

COMMUNICATING EFFECTIVELY: Conveying information and ideas clearly and concisely to individuals or groups in an engaging manner that helps them understand and retain the message; listening actively to others.

ENGAGEMENT READINESS: Demonstrating a willingness to commit to one’s work and to invest one’s time, talent, and best efforts in accomplishing organizational goals.

Candidate Profile Reports are automatically generated and include the following sections:

• Band or Overall Score
• Performance Indicators
• Performance Outcomes
• Interview Questions
• Development Tips
• Verification Questions