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Exceptional Contribution Award

Nathan Goldman, JD, Board Staff, Kentucky Board of Nursing

The Exceptional Contribution Award is granted for significant contribution by a member who is not a president or executive officer.

Exceptional Contribution Award

Mindy Schaffner, PhD, MSN, CNS, RN, Board Staff, Washington State Nursing Care Quality Assurance Commission

The Exceptional Contribution Award is granted for significant contribution by a member who is not a president or executive officer.

• Charting The Course and Responding to Change: NCSBN’s 2017-2019 Strategic Plan
• A Global Perspective: Association of New Brunswick Licensed Practical Nurses
• An Update on the Enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact (eNLC)
• Setting the Passing Standard for the NCLEX-PN Examination
• New Transition To Practice Program

Exceptional Contribution Award

Catherine C. Woodard, Board Staff, Washington State Nursing Care Quality Assurance Commission

The Exceptional Contribution Award is granted for significant contribution by a member who is not a president or executive officer.

NCSBN Founders Award

Thomas G. Abram, MA, JD, Legal Counsel, National Council of State Boards of Nursing

This prestigious award is given only upon occasion that an individual with ethics, integrity and sincerity has demonstrated the highest regard for the ideals and beliefs upon which NCSBN was founded.

NCSBN’s annual Year In Review is an interactive companion to NCSBN's 2016 Annual Report, featuring events, activities and NCLEX Examination statistics for the entire calendar year 2016. Inside this yearbook are easily accessible links to videos, slideshows and other online resource documents as well as additional information about the subjects covered in the publication. 

This annual report functions as a formal summary of NCSBN’s performance and activities during fiscal year 2016. This year NCSBN has divided its Annual Report into two parts. The first part includes financial and business information including operating statements and listings of the Board of Directors, committees and staff that follows NCSBN’s fiscal year spanning Oct. 1, 2015 to Sept. 30, 2016. This document is posted here.

Standard setting is a process used to determine a cut point on an ability continuum. Examinees scoring above the cut point are considered competent and able to practice safely and effectively. The NCSBN Board of Directors re-evaluates the passing standard every three years or when the test plan changes. This webinar provides a brief description of how the standard setting method (Modified Angoff) used by NCSBN works and information on how NCLEX standard setting is conducted using a small test example.

• Regulation 2030: First Steps of a Journey
• What’s Holding You Back from Serving in a Leadership Role?
• 11 Facts About the Enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact (eNLC)
• NCLEX Conference Recap
• Opportunities for Regulatory Scholars
• 2016 Year in Review 

This webinar discusses the principles of item writing with a focus on writing NCLEX-style items.

• An Interview with Marlene Carbullido, Executive Director, Guam Board of Nurse Examiners
• Q&A: Are LPN/VNs Allowed to Delegate?
• The Journal of Nursing Regulation Turns Six
• Politics and Change and APRNs
• NCSBN Unveils a Regulatory Scholars Program
• Examinations Publications Roundup
• Acclimating to U.S. Health Care in the Words of an Internationally Educated Nurse
• Trends in the Regulatory Oversight of Nursing Education Programs
• Release of NCSBN’s Online Transition to Practice Program

This annual publication provides national and state summary data of member boards’ licensure activities, as well as data on candidate performance on the NCLEX-RN and NCLEX-PN Examinations.