Driving nurse attributes (DNA) assessment??? Please help :(

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Hi,

i have just graduated from nursing school , and i was applying for this new grad internship. Thing is they called me , i was so excited but they said before i could be considered i had to take a driving nurse attribute assessment. I took it and i failed :( . Now i have to wait six months to retake it and be able to be cpnsidered again for a job :( . Im so sad :( i thought i had done well.

Has anyone taken this test, please advise me how i could answer to pass it. :(

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No idea what this is. What kind of things were on it?

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Omg it was so hard its all about nursing situations, and how would u respond :((

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What country are you in? I have never heard of it and Google doesn't even have much about it??????

I hope someone responds because I sure am curious. What questions were on the test? Questions about nursing delegation and responsibilities or about age appropriate interventions??? I kind of got that idea from Google but I really have no idea what I'm talking about.

If nothing else, take a deep breath, try to remember as much as you can about what was on the test, and study up on that?????

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Im in washington DC, and that assessment was for a new grad internship at george washington university hospital (gwu) .

its all about situational cases like if you have a patient complaining , they give you the actions and how u would respond but u have to rate them from very innefective, innefective, so so, effective and very effective.

then they give u a case and lots of actions, they tell u to pick 4 or 5 and then order it in sequence.

its so hard. I thought i had done well but i failed :(((

now i gotta wait six months to re aplly i need helpppp :((

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If you can remember some of the scenarios in more detail....patient complaining (surgical pain...chest pain...can't breath)???....what intervention would you do first, second, third....maybe we can give you some ideas.

But it sounds really hard. You could probably give the top 10 nurses on Allnurses a scenario, what do do first, second, etc., and get 20 different answers!

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Specializes in NICU, ICU, PICU, Academia.

There's not a lot we CAN do to help. You just need to keep applying to other places. And be sure your communication is professional in tone. For example, you have many mis-spellings and instances of 'text speak' on this thread. You cannot allow this to bleed over into ANY communication with ANY potential employer.

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Its not about like nursing actions lsuch as meds or anything like that.

it mostly involves if u would involve a colleague or manager or supervisor

and delegations questions,

spills, etc :((

there are too many questions i cant remember all :((

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Oh yes i do not do that a lot.

i am very professional at work or during interviews.

It is just that i am doing other stuff while trying to reply to this thread.

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Specializes in Critical Care, Education.

That's horrible... and it doesn't even make sense to "assess" skills that you don't have yet. I abhor the 'charm school' pre-screening tools that everyone is using as part of their online employment process. At the very least, I question their origin and validity.

In the larger sense, limiting the applicant pool to only those with a narrow range of 'attributes' would move the employee population toward a very homogeneous personality type... they would be mandating group-think because there would be no dissenting voices. This would be the death knell for creativity and any sort of propensity to organizational learning.

*mike drop*

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Specializes in HH, Peds, Rehab, Clinical.

Many interviews will give you prioritizing scenarios, this is pretty common. Sounds like they've devised an exam to further weed out applicants before getting to the interview stage.

Please review TOS, text speak is unprofessional and a violation on this website.[

QUOTE=Ana112193;9094156]Im in washington DC, and that assessment was for a new grad internship at george washington university hospital (gwu) .

its all about situational cases like if you have a patient complaining , they give you the actions and how u would respond but u have to rate them from very innefective, innefective, so so, effective and very effective.

then they give u a case and lots of actions, they tell u to pick 4 or 5 and then order it in sequence.

its so hard. I thought i had done well but i failed :(((

now i gotta wait six months to re aplly i need helpppp :((

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Is this similar to nurse career battery tests? If so, you can use the AN search tool to find other threads and examples of questions on the test.

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