** WINNER OF ILTA/SAGE Best Book Award 2020** Assessing English for Professional
Purposes provides a state-of-the-art account of the various kinds of language assessments …

Migration and globalization of the nursing workforce affect source countries and destination
countries. Policies and regulations governing the movement of nurses from one country to …

Abstract Language tests for overseas registered nurses (ORN) working outside their home
country are essential for patient safety, as communication competency needs to be …

Background Instructing nurses on communication is a bit like instructing birds on flying. All
nurses have been taught communication skills as a basic part of a prelicensure nursing …

AIM: To explore the strategies used by nursing students in co** with English as a foreign
language medium of instruction. METHOD: A descriptive repeated-measure design was …

The purpose of the present study is to examine concurrent and predictive evidence used in
the validation of ACCUPLACER, a purchased test used to place first-year students into …

Licensure testing programs in the United States (eg, nursing) face an increasing challenge
of measuring the competency of internationally trained candidates, both in relation to their …

This paper considers how to establish the minimum required level of professionally relevant
oral communication ability in the medium of English for health practitioners with English as …

The United States is increasingly ethnically diverse. To provide culturally congruent care to
this changing population, nursing programs must attract and support ethnically diverse …

There is increased interest in reforming the way occupations are licensed. However, most of
the current dialogue focuses on the rapid growth in the number of people who need a …