The Scrub Path is a first-job decision tool for nursing students and new grads. It is designed to organize patterns in your answers into practical career guidance. It is not a clinical test, placement guarantee, or prediction of one “correct” specialty.
The current assessment contains 41 questions. Authored answer choices contribute to 10 underlying work-pattern buckets:
structured, acute, fast, relationship, teaching, behavioral, community, coordination, advanced, and sustainable.
The consumer-facing result names are built from those underlying buckets. Scoring uses authored weights and pattern logic rather than keyword matching.
The current v1.9RB Realistic-55 + Boost model was stress-tested in three ways:
The single-pattern tests are strong. Mixed profiles—especially near evenly split patterns—remain harder to classify cleanly. That is why results are presented as guidance with supporting and counter-signals, not as certainty.
Use the report to ask better questions, compare first-job environments, and understand tradeoffs. Do not use it as a substitute for your own judgment, licensure requirements, employer-specific information, or professional clinical advice.
The assessment is intended to help you think more clearly about fit, support, sustainability, and future mobility before accepting a first nursing role.
Current scoring baseline: v1.9RB Realistic-55 + Boost normalization with evidence-signal layer.
When scoring logic changes, the assessment should be re-run through the validation suite before the new version is treated as production-ready.