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  • transcript_2025nclex_qa1.pdf

    ©2025 National Council of State Boards of Nursing, Inc. All rights reserved. 4 - Absolutely. That's a timely question, Nicole. The 2026 NCLEX-RN and NCLEX-PN test plans were approved at the NCSBN annual meeting in August of 2025. They will go into effect on April 1st of '26, and until then, the current test plans will remain in place. However, the test plan will be, the new test plan, excuse me, will be available on our website in December of 2025. As for changes, the overall structure and category weightings remain very stable.

  • 14_NCLEX_technicalbrief_SettinganEnglishLanguageProficiencyPassing.pdf

    According to a study conducted by CaMLA, the MELAB passing standards recommended by the stan- dard setting panel are comparable to the NCSBN-endorsed TOEFL passing standards. NCSBN recommended an overall cut score of 560 on the TOEFL PBT, 220 on the TOEFL CBT and 84 on the TOEFL iBT. A minimum speaking score of 26 was advised on the TOEFL iBT. The findings from the study suggest that the NCSBN recommendations on the PBT, iBT and CBT all fall within the same score range. As shown in Ta- ble 4, the score range corresponds to a MELAB score range of 78-81. NCSBN Board of Directors (BOD) Deliberation The NCSBN Board of Directors (BOD) reviewed and discussed results from the MELAB standard setting workshop.

  • 2023aprn_chappell-singer.pdf

    Leadership: Steering Committee co-chaired by NAM, Aspen Institute, HHS, and HCA Healthcare Four priority focus areas (working groups): Health professional education and training; Pain management guidelines and evidence standards; Prevention, treatment, and recovery services; and Research, data, and metrics needs Health Professional Education and Training Working Group Co-leads: Kathy Chappell (American Nurses Credentialing Center), Eric Holmboe (Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Educati ...

  • 21_RN_KSA_FINAL.pdf

    Least Important Knowledge Statements from 2021 and 2017 Surveys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Table 8. Knowledge Statement Importance Ratings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1. Licenses by Primary Job Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Figure 2. Gender by Primary Job Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Figure 3.

  • Transcript_2019TriReg_WHatherill.pdf

    All rights reserved. 6 PowerPoint presentation that would just be running in the background at our annual meeting and people would come up and say, "Why are we only a two-star state?What's going on?How do we step that up?" And immediately we started to get more and more participation so that we're up to, I got 24 down here, but it's up to 26 5-star states currently. Another benefit from us as we developed our PT compact language is that we insured, right? If you're gonna get a physical therapy compact privilege to practice another jurisdiction, we want to ensure that you don't have any encumbrances against your license.

  • L2L_Fall2017.pdf

    NCSBN conducted a randomized, controlled TTP study of new graduate registered nurses (NGRNs) in three states (Illinois, North Carolina, and Ohio) from 2011–2013, based on its TTP model. The sample included 1,032 NGRNs from 70 hospitals across the three states. The researchers examined onboard- ing methods used by control hospitals and identified wide variation in their methods. There were 26 control sites that did not have a structured curricu- lum and had fewer than six elements the literature describes as essential to transition (patient-centered care, communication and teamwork, quality improvement, evidence-based practice, informatics, safety, clinical reasoning, feedback, reflection, preceptorship and specialty knowledge in the area of practice).

  • InFocus_Vol2_2025.pdf

    subject=In%20Focus https://www.cno.org/ https://www.cno.org/ https://web.cvent.com/event/57ce1bf9-7619-4a9d-a556-64efef587f42/regProcessStep1 22 | In Focus 2025, Vol. 2 | 23 In Memory of Joyce Schowalter NCSBN pays tribute and expresses its gratitude to Joyce M. Schowalter, MEd, RN, a founding “mother” of the organization and nursing regulatory pioneer who passed away on May, 26, 2025. Her contributions to regulation and public protection are profound. At a 1977 meeting of the American Nurses Association Council of State Boards of Nursing, Schowalter made the motion to form a task force to study the reorganization of the ANA Council of State Boards of Nursing, which led to the founding of NCSBN.

  • KMBT_C654-20131003090749

    KMBT_C654-20131003090749 NATIONAL COUNCIL OF STATE BOARDS OF NURSING, INC. 1 Minutes of the 41st Annual Delegate Assembly 2 August 12, 2020  Online 3 4 Online Business Meeting 5 6 Call to Order 7 The first business meeting of the 42nd Annual Delegate Assembly of the National Council of State 8 Boards of Nursing was called to order at 1:08 pm on Wednesday, August 12, 2020 via an online 9 platform. 10 11 Welcome 12 President George welcomed those present. 13 14 Introductions 15 President George t ...

  • 2024nclex_qian-buttolph.pdf

    More information can be located here or please contact Customer Experience at customerexpereience@ncsbn.org. https://www.nclex.com/ mailto:customerexpereience@ncsbn.org Slide 3: Objectives Slide 4: Item Development Process Slide 5: Purpose of Sensitivity and DIF Review Slide 6: Fairness in the Exam Slide 7: Procedures to Ensure Fairness Slide 8: Sensitivity Review Procedures Slide 9 Slide 10: Criteria for Sensitivity Review Slide 11: Inappropriate Language Slide 12: Example of Inappropriate Lang ...

  • Microsoft PowerPoint - NLC Training_Licensure_012021_mb2

    Upon making the MSL “not active”, the licensee is notified that the Board has learned the licensee has declared another NLC state as the new PSOR and was issued a multistate license in that state. The newly issued license supersedes the former license, therefore the former is being made “not active”. Policy 3.1 Continued SECTION 400. LICENSURE Rules 25 26 14 401. (1) On all application forms for multistate licensure, a party state shall require, at a minimum: (a) A declaration of a prim ...