When the 国家al Council of State Boards of Nursing rolled out an updated licensing exam focused on assessing clinical judgment, 第一次通过率在美国.S. 从80上升.今年早些时候为5%至94%.
内布拉斯加州, 哪里的COVID-19大流行加剧了全州的护士短缺, 随着执照考试的新迭代,通过率也有所上升, 特蕾莎·德拉霍伊德说, 内布拉斯加州护理委员会主席.
The official results for each of the nine institutions of higher education that offer nursing will be available at the of January 2024, but a trio of Lincoln-area nursing schools has already announced they recorded a 100% first-time pass rate.
布莱恩健康科学学院, Nebraska Wesleyan 大学 and Union 大学 reported the entire cohort of nursing students that graduated in the spring successfully cleared the new 国家al Council of 许可 Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN) in May.
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The results are something nursing instructors say should engender confidence in the health care systems that will hire those newly minted nurses as well as patients who will be cared for by them.
“所有学校在这方面都非常努力,德拉霍伊说, 她也是布莱恩大学护理学院的院长. “我们一点也不认为这是理所当然的."
新版的NCLEX, a standardized test used for decades to measure a candidate nurse's knowledge base and skill set, was introduced after more than a decade in research and development as the expectations of nurses has become more complex.
四月推出, the Next Generation NCLEX seeks to measure nurses' critical thinking and decision-making when delivering patient care by asking them to work through patient charts and synthesize several pieces of information to determine whether or not a patient is on the mend.
"This is more true to what they're seeing in real life in the clinical setting," Delahoyde said.
NCLEX的改变导致了布莱恩学校课程的改变, 今年有47名学生通过了第一次考试, as well as Nebraska Wesleyan and Union as they sought to help prepare students for the exam.
Brittney Fritzinger, 内布拉斯加州卫斯理大学的护理系主任, 哪所学校从2015年开始提供护理学学士学位, said the Next Generation NCLEX was used as a blueprint as instructors worked one-on-one with students to close any gaps in their learning.
"Having these results helps build our confidence that we are able to prepare competent graduates,Fritzinger说, particularly in a cohort of 22 students that was forced to go to remote learning during the pandemic.
“最初, we were a little bit concerned because we lost that face-to-face interaction, 但令人鼓舞的是,这是可以做到的,她补充道.
Union 大学 has previously achieved a 100% first-time pass rate under the old version of the test, but nursing program director Elysia Ockenga说 the curriculum was adapted to ensure students were experienced with the type of questions they would face.
到了考试的时候, the nine nursing students — one of the smaller classes of Union nurses due to an enrollment dip during COVID — who took NCLEX this spring exuded confidence, Ockenga说.
"I think the faculty were probably more stressed about it than the students,她说. “他们说他们觉得自己准备得很充分, which was just a testament to the efforts of all the faculty in making them feel they weren't walking into something that was totally new."
All three schools said the 100% first-time pass rate has set the bar high for future cohorts, but they believe those students have also shown younger students the path forward.
"It adds a little bit of pressure, but I also think it shows them it can be done,Fritzinger说.
Ockenga说 preparing students for the Next Gen NCLEX is "a team effort" requiring the time and talents of faculty members to create learning activities and "meaningful experiences" that help students succeed, 以及学生在学习中有意识.
"I swell with pride at the fact we have individuals going into this profession who take it seriously and want to give the best patient care they can,她说.
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