A scoping review of admission criteria and selection methods in nursing education.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Nursing education institutions are required to select and train applicants who have appropriate characteristics for delivering effective healthcare. Unlike other healthcare professions and despite the need to attract and select a competent workforce, there has been no comprehensive analysis of the selection criteria and methods used to recruit nursing students. As there is relatively limited prior research available, we conducted a scoping review to explore and synthesise the existing evidence regarding admission criteria and selection methods of nursing students and for the purpose of identifying an agenda for future research in this field.

Methods

Our scoping review follows the Arksey and O'Malley five-step proposition including identifying the research question

SUBMITTER: Zamanzadeh V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7734761 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature