This has come up for me recently as my wife was applying for (and got) a new position as a band 6 district nurse.
Of the 4 people that applied for the post my wife was the only one to pass both tests. This increasingly worrying when you hear that some of the questions were things like "Isodaphytrn comes in 5mg capsules, Joe Bloggs has been prescribed 20mg per day, how many capsules are needed?" and "There are 5mg of peptobihydramide in every 100ml bag of fluid, if a patient needs 30mg, how many ml will they need?".
The literacy test was things like the correct usage of their they're and there, bought and brought etc etc as opposed to grammar type questions.
Now i'm no perfect spellerer or writeist
P) and have always had a bit of a blind spot when it comes to the comma, but the fact that only one qualified nurse out of 4 passed these kind of tests really is a little disturbing.
I didn't have anything like this, but I know now that at least one of the people our small company hired would have failed at least one miserably which isn't great in a communications industry.
Did you have a test of this kind when you had your interview? What are you views on them?
Of the 4 people that applied for the post my wife was the only one to pass both tests. This increasingly worrying when you hear that some of the questions were things like "Isodaphytrn comes in 5mg capsules, Joe Bloggs has been prescribed 20mg per day, how many capsules are needed?" and "There are 5mg of peptobihydramide in every 100ml bag of fluid, if a patient needs 30mg, how many ml will they need?".
The literacy test was things like the correct usage of their they're and there, bought and brought etc etc as opposed to grammar type questions.
Now i'm no perfect spellerer or writeist
P) and have always had a bit of a blind spot when it comes to the comma, but the fact that only one qualified nurse out of 4 passed these kind of tests really is a little disturbing.I didn't have anything like this, but I know now that at least one of the people our small company hired would have failed at least one miserably which isn't great in a communications industry.
Did you have a test of this kind when you had your interview? What are you views on them?
