This integrated approach helps to streamline the registration process and accelerate the integration of competent health care professionals in the workforce.
With the support of the British Columbia and New Brunswick governments, we are excited to have launched a brand-new version of this 3-in-1 assessment in early 2024. This will be our first-ever bilingual assessment, which will be offered in French in New Brunswick.
Refined decision-making for a strong workforce
Strengths & Gaps
Inspire Global Assessments’ integrated competency assessment is a “profiling assessment”— there is no pass or fail. Our assessment identifies a candidate’s overall level of competence, as well as strengths gaps in several nursing practice areas. This approach to assessment helps candidates understand their specific learning needs and identify the profession best suited to their current abilities.
Streamline & Enhance
The approach gives regulators confidence about a candidate’s readiness to practice safely and competently in the Canadian health care system.
Our origin story
Developing innovative multi-profession assessments is at the core of Inspire Global Assessments’ mandate and history.
When our organization was born in 2016, Inspire Global Assessments’ (then called Nursing Community Assessment Service) was asked to assess the feasibility of one integrated competency assessment that could validly measure the competencies required to practice safely as a Registered Nurse (RN), Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN), Healthcare Assistant (HCA) and Registered Psychiatric Nurse (RPN).
Following extensive research and engagement involving more than a hundred stakeholders and subject matter experts in the regulatory, nursing, education and measurement fields, Inspire Global Assessments laid the groundwork for a single integrated assessment that could assess a candidate’s competence in the role of an RN, LPN or HCA. Psychiatric nursing, on the other hand, would continue to be assessed separately due to the unique aspects of this practice.
To support the delivery of Inspire Global Assessments’ integrated assessment, we acquired a new delivery platform, that provides:
- Increased accessibility with remote proctoring
- Enhanced computer-based question types
- Concurrent tablet-based scoring during simulation lab assessments
- Integrated reporting
- A richer user experience
- Shorter turnaround times for assessing and reporting
- Expansion capabilities to support:
- Additional jurisdictions and partner regulators,
- More types of organizations that we can serve,
- An increase in the number of assessment centres, and
- An increase in applicant and assessment taker volumes.