Trust the tests you take.
Testing offered by UNA is always kept up-to-date — written by subject matter experts and validated with real, true-to-life experience.
What is validation?
Validity measures effectiveness. Validation ensures content is job-related, fair for all, necessary on the first day, and essential for safe and effective performance.
UNA Test uses Expert Validation Protocol (EVP), where practicing subject matter experts identify critical job duties, knowledge, skills, and abilities in their clinician specialty. These experts then create test items directly based on those key findings.
The EVP process is rigorous to ensure your assessments are legally defensible and accurately determine baseline competency.
Job-Related
Content directly tied to real clinical duties
Fair for All
Unbiased, standardized across all candidates
Day-One Ready
Covers what staff need from their very first shift
Legally Defensible
Backed by empirical evidence and formal methodology
How UNA validates every exam.
Every UNA Test exam follows a rigorous four-step process developed and executed by practicing clinical subject matter experts.
Job Task Analysis
Practicing subject matter experts identify critical job duties, knowledge, skills, and abilities specific to each clinician specialty.
Item Generation
Those same experts create test items directly based on the key findings — ensuring content reflects real clinical scenarios.
Empirical Validation
Each exam is rigorously reviewed and validated against empirical evidence to ensure accuracy, fairness, and legal defensibility.
Continuous Review
Content is continuously monitored and updated to reflect the latest clinical standards — never stale, always current.
Why is validation important?
Validation is crucial — and not just a buzzword. Validity helps protect you from legal risk.
When testing providers say their content is validated, it means each and every test was created using a formal methodology backed by empirical evidence.
This supporting evidence is necessary if an employer faces legal challenges for discriminatory hiring practices. Without it, your organization is exposed.
Beware of red flags!
Any of the following scenarios put your organization at increased risk. Ask your provider a few simple questions about the details of their content.
Your testing provider claims their content is "nationally validated", but can't clearly articulate their validation methodology.
Your testing is validated by an "advisory board" or "committee" without subject matter experience.
Your testing board claims its 20 members can validate over 200 clinical specialties.
Your testing provider takes over 24 hours to provide a technical report of empirical evidence for any exam you use frequently.
Your testing provider can't provide evidence of exam content having been updated within the last 3 years (minimum).
Your testing provider sets their standard score for passing at 80%.
UNA passes every one of these tests.
Every UNA exam is developed by practicing clinicians, updated regularly, and backed by documented empirical evidence available on request.
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