Career assessments
Build a future to fit your motivations. The MAPP (motivational appraisal of personal potential) is a unique online assessment tool that helps guide, motivate and empower people to achieve their greatest educational and career potential. Based on forty years of development and success, MAPP assesses areas a person is motivated to work in/with such as: Interest in job contents, temperament for the job, aptitude for the job, people, things, data, reasoning, mathematical capacity and language capacity.
To sign up for this personal assessment, please contact the Edelman Nursing Career Development Center by email. Please include your name, the facility and unit where you work, current position, your daytime telephone number and an email address if available.
Databases of nursing academic programs
References associate, bachelor, second, master and doctoral degrees.
Nursing specialties and certifications
Nationwide directory of nursing schools
Detailed descriptions of nine levels of nursing practice, 33 nursing clinical specialties, and 12 non-traditional careers for nurses. Each description includes a job description, practice setting, client age group, diagnoses, practice roles, desirable characteristics, challenges, desirable skills, education, employers and certifying organizations.
Virginia Board of Nursing
Information on licensing requirements, certification/education and testing requirements for nursing and nursing specialties.
American Nurses Credentialing Center
Certification review products catalog and ANCC exams handbook
