Wockhardt launches India’s first Online Skill Assessment Tool for Nurses
Bangalore, 17 March 2008 In an effort to create standardization of Nursing Skill Assessment, Wockhardt Hospitals Group, India’s leading chain of super speciality hospitals, in association with Careersindia, a leading workforce assessment services company in India, have innovated to launch Wockhardt Nursing Skill Test (NST) a unique online test to measure the and basic domain knowledge of prospective nurses seeking employment with the group.
More than 30,000 nurses graduate from various nursing colleges and schools across India each year and seek employment at hospitals all over the country. Under the NST, any nurse seeking employment at Wockhardt Hospitals across the country can go to the nearest designated Web Centre log on to http://www.careersindia.com/nursing and answer 70 multiple choice questions in 47 minutes on topics like Basic Nursing Skills, Medical Surgical Nursing, Child Health Nursing, Mental Health Nursing, Midwifery and spoken language evaluation.
On completion of the test candidates are provided immediate access to their "Individual Assessment Report". This report is designed to provide candidates with module wise percentile scores. The percentile scores reflect the candidate’s basic knowledge and performance in the test with respect to the required areas. Based on the scores candidates will either enter the next round of the interview process or be dropped. A photograph of every candidate taking the test is taken by the web centre and attached to the report which ensures the security and authority of the process.
“With our rapid expansion across the country we are currently recruiting more than 200 nurses each month out of the 2000 candidates that are screened by our HR team. The NST process will ensure that nurses do not have to travel across geographical locations to go through the interview process which will now start only after the NST clears the candidates for the next round.” said Vishal Bali, CEO, Wockhardt Hospitals Group.
Developed in association with Careersindia, a company which has made a mark in the area of online workforce assessments in industry, the NST has been compiled by the experts in Nursing, Doctors and Language professionals and validated by practitioners from the Wockhardt hospitals Group. Across the country, Wockhardt Hospitals have tied up with more than 3000 web centers where the test can be taken by the candidates.
“The NST test score will now be the foundation of our nurse recruitment process. Currently our team spends 40 minutes with each candidate to assess their basic skills through a physical interview process and many candidates are dropped for lack of basic knowledge. Through this process we will not only be able to screen …. Number of candidates across the country but also helps candidates save their time and expense of traveling to states, where we have our hospitals” said Kumar Krishnaswamy, Group Head – HR, Wockhardt Hospitals.
“Careersindia has taken the lead in the past to successfully design, develop and deploy online assessments for individual’s abilities and behavioural competence for various verticals such as ITES, Financial Services, Insurance, Retail and Manufacturing Sectors. We believe that NST, which has been developed after several months of research, will mark the beginning of a new era in talent assessment and evaluation for healthcare industry. Having successfully assessed thousands of candidates in various industry segments, we are confident that our expertise in online testing, which is integrated into NST will provide immense benefits to the hiring process of the nurses in the country. We have no doubt that the Wockhardt NST will become an industry benchmark for recruitment of nurses in other hospitals across the country” said R. Kannan, Managing Director, Careersindia.
About Wockhardt Hospitals: Wockhardt Hospitals Group has a pan India presence of 12 super speciality hospitals. It runs heart hospitals in Bangalore, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Nagpur, Rajkot and Surat. It also runs a super specialty kidney hospital in Kolkata. Wockhardt hospitals new generation super specialty hospital on Bannerghatta Road, Bangalore provides super speciality care in Cardiology / Cardiac Surgery, Orthopedics, Neurology / Neurosurgery, Minimal Access Surgery and Women's health. Wockhardt Hospitals is a treatment destination for patients from UK, US and other European Countries besides South Asia, South East Asia, Middle East and Africa. Wockhardt Hospitals is the first hospital group in South Asia to be recognized by the American Blue Cross Blue Shield Association in its worldwide network of participating hospitals and has been empanelled by CIGNA.
