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  • 2025-rexpn_biskupic-lin.pdf

    • Each REx-PN® item should measure only the knowledge, ability or skills in nursing • DIF means that an item behaves differently for different examinee groups, given the same ability level DIF Terms Reference group • traditional demographic groups for REx-PN® (females, white, ENU) Focal group • males, non-white, FRC Item difficulty for females The Concept of DIF It e m d if fi cu lt y f o r m a le s DIF Panel Review • When an item shows a statistically significant amount of DIF, it is reviewed by a DIF panel to determine whether there is an identifiable source of bias/unfairness within the item content • If the panel determines that there is bias/unfairness, the item is reviewed by Practical Nurse Exam Committee (PNEC) What to Do with DIF Information?

  • EPIDIOLEX (cannabidiol) oral solution

    Consider discontinuation or dose adjustment of valproate or clobazam if liver enzyme elevations occur. Dose Transaminase elevations are dose-related. Overall, ALT elevations greater than 3 times the ULN were reported in 17% of patients taking EPIDIOLEX 20 mg/kg/day compared with 1% in patients taking EPIDIOLEX 10 mg/kg/day. Baseline Transaminase Elevations Patients with baseline transaminase levels above the ULN had higher rates of transaminase elevations when taking EPIDIOLEX. ...

  • Disch_Exploring_how_nsg_schools_handle_student_errors.pdf

    Asked whether their school had a written policy for follow­up with students after an error or a near miss, 155 (31%) replied yes, 245 (50%) replied no, 82 (17%) said there was no consistent standard, and four (1%) didn’t know. (Totals here and in the follow­ ing paragraphs may not sum to 494 because not all respondents answered every question.) When asked whether their school differentiated be­ tween errors and near misses, 100 respondents (20%) said yes, 239 (48%) said no, 144 (29%) said there was no consistent standard, and five (1%) didn’t know.

  • InFocus_Vol2_2025.pdf

    I thought I was there to represent nursing and to protect nurses, when in reality, Barbara Zittel [executive secretary to the State Board for Nursing at New York State Education Department] said to me, ‘Well, you are in a way, but the biggest job you will have on this board of nursing is to protect the public.’

  • Transcript_2023am_cconnolly.pdf

    And they wanted to really raise a lot of money for the war effort. Within a couple of weeks, there were thousands of people that were ill and dying. Just an aside, they thought it was a bacteria because they really didn't have any good understanding of a virus. And they could see a bacteria on a microscope, but it wouldn't be until the 1930s when they had an electron microscope that they could even see a virus.

  • Transcript_2022it_nursys-panel.pdf

    - So like with the workforce, you know, potential things that you need for federal funding like for Pell Grants and things like that, accreditation purposes for the governmental level. You have to have where they work? What was their passage standards at their school, which when we have a transcript, when we take in a new nurse, we're going to have that information which comes directly from the program coordinators? So I just think there is a potential for a bigger usage of the system, you know, to help everybody social security administration as a federal body.

  • transcript_2023mym_bmartin.pdf

    All rights reserved. 3 international borders? And when they are doing that, what nursing services that they are ultimately coordinating? And then from there, we trained our focus on specific objectives related to nursing regulation in phase 2. And so phase 2 really took the form of what I mentioned earlier, which was this multi-stage mixed methods observational study.

  • 2021NCLEX_WMuntean.pdf

    Next Generation NCLEX® (NGN): Item Types and Scoring William Muntean, PhD Manager, Measurement and Testing Objectives • Discuss Next Generation NCLEX® (NGN) Scoring Rules • Apply Scoring Rules to NGN Item Types Research Framework Conceptual Model (cognitive theories of the construct) Assessment Model (psychometric interpretation of cognitive theories) Task Models (blueprints of tasks) Mathematical Model (inferences of raw scores) Scoring Models (interpretation of raw data) Validation Model (test ...

  • 2022NCLEX_wmuntean_main_stage.pdf

    Research Framework Conceptual Model (cognitive theories of the construct) Assessment Model (psychometric interpretation of cognitive theories) Task Models (blueprints of tasks) Mathematical Model (inferences of raw scores) Scoring Models (interpretation of raw data) Validation Model (tests of design decisions) Lay theoretical grounds for the assessment Collect raw response data Convert raw data to raw scores Reason from raw scores to inferences Scoring Research § Collected data on nearly 3,000 N ...

  • 2018DCM_RMcKechney.pdf

    In Massachusetts, applicants are permanently barred from admission as a Nurse where there are criminal convictions for: 1) Violent crime against any person(s) that involves extreme disregard of human life; 2) trafficking in, or illegally manufacturing, any controlled substance; and 3) exploitation or criminal mistreatment of a vulnerable individual including, a minor, elder and/or disabled person.