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The Model Act & Rules provides an evidence-based framework of nursing statutes and regulations for nursing regulatory bodies to utilize during policy and advocacy discussions. The current Model Act & Rules were updated by a NCSBN committee under a charge to perform ongoing review, revision, and development of Model Act & Rules to reflect the current regulatory environment and to remove any other language that does not support public safety. This work began in 2023 and was approved by the Delegate Assembly in 2026.

The Model Act & Rules provides an evidence-based framework of nursing statutes and regulations for nursing regulatory bodies to utilize during policy and advocacy discussions. The current Model Act & Rules were updated by a NCSBN committee under a charge to perform ongoing review, revision, and development of Model Act & Rules to reflect the current regulatory environment and to remove any other language that does not support public safety. This work began in 2023 and was approved by the Delegate Assembly in 2026.

The REx-PN test plan includes an in-depth overview of the content categories, details about the administration of the exam and REx-PN style item writing exercises.
Effective Jan. 1, 2027.

e-Notify for institutions is an innovative nurse licensure notification system that delivers real-time notifications to employers about nurses in their employ. The system provides licensure and publicly available discipline data directly as the information is entered into the Nursys database by participating nursing regulatory bodies. Learn more about Nursys e-Notify.

NCSBN ensures fairness for different groups taking the NCLEX-RN® and NCLEX-PN® exams. Candidates with comparable nursing knowledge should perform similarly on exam items, regardless of their gender, ethnicity, or other factors irrelevant to nursing practice. This session will describe how Sensitivity and Differential Item Functioning panel reviews contribute to the fairness and legal defensibility of an exam.

NCSBN has been conducting research to determine whether clinical judgment and decision-making in nursing practice can be reliably assessed through the use of innovative item types. This session will give an update on the NCLEX Examinations.