Abstract:Background: Current baseline measures-primarily cognitive-do not select the best nurses. We hypothesized that a validated test of thinking skills, Strategic Management Simulations (SMS), will predict the nurses the faculty deemed the best at graduation. Methods: A total of 37 RNs in the last semester of an Associate Degree program voluntarily took the SMS. At graduation, faculty ranked them on "who would best take care of your loved one?" Faculty rank was correlated with SMS scores, admission rank and graduati… Show more
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