Search NCSBN

The search results displayed are from the entire site. Visit the Resources Section to focus your search and filter only resource items (publications, videos, papers, toolkits and other resources).

  • Policy_Position_Statement.pdf

    Phillips, C. Y., Palmer, C. V., Zimmerman, B. J., & Mayfield, M. (2002). Professional development: Assuring growth of RN-to- BSN students. Journal of Nursing Education, 41(6), 282-284. Tourangeau, A. E., Doran, D. M., McGillis Hall, L., O’Brien Pallas, L., Pringle, D., Tu, J. V., & Cranley, L.

  • An Investigation of Item Response Times as Indicators of

    PROPOSAL NARRATIVE shagge Typewritten Text shagge Typewritten Text shagge Typewritten Text shagge Typewritten Text shagge Typewritten Text BUDGET SUMMARY Research Proposal to the Joint Research Committee – NCSBN BUDGET SUMMARY CATEGORY Cost Use these additional columns to split out costs for each phase, if proposing a multi-phased project DIRECT COSTS* 1. Personnel salaries and wages 2. Fringe benefits 3. Consultants and contracts 4. Travel 5. Supplies and materials 6. Communications (Telephone, ...

  • Simulation_Guidelines_Panel.pdf

    www.ncsbn.org 3 Expert Panel Maryann Alexander, PhD, RN, FAAN Chief Officer, Nursing Regulation National Council of State Boards of Nursing Carol F. Durham, EdD, RN, ANEF, FAAN Professor of Nursing Director, Education-Innovation-Simulation Learning Environment (EISLE) School of Nursing University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill President, International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning (2013–2015) Nathan Goldman, JD General Counsel Kentucky Board of Nursing Janice I. Hooper, PhD, RN, FRE, CNE Nursing Consultant for Education Texas Board of Nursing Pamela R.

  • Workforce-Symposium-Report.pdf

    JAMA Health Forum, 4(7), e231809. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamahealthforum.2023.1809 Aiken, L. H., Sloane, D. M., Barnes, H., Cimiotti, J. P., Jarrín, O. F., & McHugh, M. D. (2018). Nurses’ And Patients’ Appraisals Show Patient Safety In Hospitals Remains A Concern. Health Affairs, 37(11), 1744–1751. https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2018.0711 American Nurses Association. (2019).

  • eNotify_Flyer-school.pdf

    Be Certain About the Licensure Status of Your Students and Faculty Nursys e-Notify delivers real-time notifications right to your inbox: • Licensure status changes, including revocation, and expiration updates • Any publicly available disciplinary action • Create and manage multiple license expiration reminders • Multistate and single-state changes within the Nurse Licensure Compact • Live and dynamic RN and LPN/VN updates sent securely from all boards of nursing • APRN data and updates from par ...

  • simulationguidelines_alexander_2015.pdf

    Journal of Nursing Regulation, (2015) 39-42. doi:10.1016/S2155-8256(15)30783-3

  • transcript_pdickison.pdf

    ©2025 National Council of State Boards of Nursing, Inc. All rights reserved. 1 Past Event: 2025 NCSBN Annual Meeting - CEO's Address Video Transcript Event 2025 NCSBN Annual Meeting More info: https://www.ncsbn.org/events/2025-nlc-annual-meeting Presenter Phil Dickison, PhD, RN, CEO, NCSBN So, look, it is absolutely an honor to be here with you once again at NCSBN's annual meeting. I'm so excited to be here with you. As I think about and I look out here among all of you, I am both honored and actually humbled.

  • Transcript_MaximimLengthExamFail.pdf

    ©2021 National Council of State Boards of Nursing, Inc. All rights reserved. 1 NCLEX Exam - Maximum-Length Exam Rule Video Transcript ©2013 National Council of State Boards of Nursing, Inc. For some people, even with the maximum number of items that they take, we still wouldn't know for certain that if the person is a pass or a failer, such as in this case. So, again, at the 60th item, we begin evaluation. At this point, we don't really know for sure. So, the person keeps getting questioned, right?

  • Transcript_MinimumItemFail.pdf

    ©2021 National Council of State Boards of Nursing, Inc. All rights reserved. 1 NCLEX Exam - 95% Confidence Interval Rule Video Transcript ©2013 National Council of State Boards of Nursing, Inc. So let's take a look at an hypothetical scenario of somebody taking 60 items and ended up failing the exam. So the test starts, and based on this person's answer, we continue to estimate his ability. So the test keeps going and going. And you can see that...I mean, even though this is a hypothetical example, but we try to use the data that mirror reality.

  • Transcript_itemselection.pdf

    ©2021 National Council of State Boards of Nursing, Inc. All rights reserved. 1 NCLEX Item Selection Video Transcript ©2013 National Council of State Boards of Nursing, Inc. Here, let's look at a hypothetical example of someone taking the exam, just to illustrate how all this work. So here you see the x-axis, the horizontal axis, that represents the order of the items. So we have the 1st item to the 15th item, and then the y-axis here is the difficulty of the item. So for the first item that was administered to this particular person, it's a little bit under the passing standard.