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  • Evidence_Grid_2009.pdf

    Vulnerable period (less com- petent; more stress) was 3-6 months when new graduates were less supervised During first 3 months, those with a primary preceptor rated themselves as perform- ing at significantly higher levels than those without the primary preceptor. When more competent in clinical reasoning ability – sig- nificantly fewer errors When more competent in communication and interper- sonal relationships – signifi- cantly fewer errors When transition programs (in hospital setting) addressed specialty, significantly fewer errors.

  • Groundbreaking, Comprehensive, Vital: The National Nursing Guidelines for Medical Marijuana | NCSBN

    The National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) is a not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to provide an organization through which boards of nursing act and counsel together on matters of common interest and concern affecting the public health, safety and welfare, including the development of licensing examinations in nursing. “When we tried to identify what type of education is available to nurses, we discovered there is a fair amount out there being presented by people who are staunch advocates for medical and recreational marijuana,” says Smith. “The education they are providing really doesn’t help serve to inform how we care for patients using medical or recreational marijuana.

  • Transcript_2020MYM_ATD-Guidelines.pdf

    And so, you can see, the bottom numbers if you can't tell are decimals, so it goes from like 0 to 0.5, which is 1/2 a year, then it's 1 year, 1-1/2 years, 2 years, etc, up to 6, 6-1/2 year. And it climbs, although there is kind of an initial flattening out after a couple of years that you see with only a quick climb at the very end of the data. And so, you know, and this is another thing that we really wanted to look at because the issue of how long the patients should be in the drug-testing program is an important one. ©2020 National Council of State Boards of Nursing, Inc.

  • Transcript_2022NCLEX_jbetts.pdf

    But some of the things like the item types and the item scoring, which we've talked about before, you can find further information on that at our homepage for the NGN resources at ncsbn.org. And we won't get into those things specifically today since you can find those resources there and get a little bit more information. So, to give like a high-level overview, some of the test design goals that we started out with when we were designing the new exam was the biggest change and the biggest difference will be now we're going to have significant opportunities to measure clinical judgment.

  • transcript_2022nclex_jbetts.pdf

    For example, today, there are eight content areas in the RN Exam, with different percentages of items from those areas making up the exam. For instance, theory of management of care comprises between 17% and 23% of the exam. Now, however, as clinical judgment is an integrated process, these items will be selected as a fixed probability.

  • Transcript_2021NCLEX_jbetts.pdf

    But some of the things like the item types and the item scoring, which we've talked about before, you can find further information on that at our homepage for the NGN resources at ncsbn.org. And we won't get into those things specifically today since you can find those resources there and get a little bit more information. So to give like a high-level overview, some of the test design goals that we started out with when we were designing the new exam was...the biggest change and the biggest difference will be, now, we're going to have significant opportunities to measure clinical judgment.

  • JIR_PDF_Banner

    The result showed that, when examinees know 10% of the items or less, the procedure can detect 67 out of 100 “true” item preknowledge cases (Qian & Staniewska, 2013). Furthermore, a cross-validation of the results showed that there is significant item difficulty drift from 2010 to 2012 for these two compromised items detected by the response time model.

  • Transcript_2020MYM_jgeorge.pdf

    To those of you in attendance, if you see the ribbon that says, "First time attendee," please reach out to these individuals and make them feel welcome. We have quite a bit of turnover, I would say, in our membership, in our various jurisdictions. So, don't feel like you're the new kid on the block, there are a lot of people in various stages of their careers in regulation. The mid-year meeting is really the time when it's a closed meeting, it's only open to membership. So, it' ...

  • LTL_Spring2022.pdf

    A systematic process to address and remediate student practice errors: This indicator requires that faculty carefully assess students in the clinical area and provide remediation for practice errors or near misses, thus promoting safe and skillful practice. continued on page 11 http://www.ncsbn.org SPRING 2022 www.ncsbn.org 11 continued from page 10 18. Collaboration between education and practice when planning clinical experiences: The literature stresses, and research supports, that students’ clinical experiences are more valuable when there are good relationships between the program and the clinical setting. This takes effort on the part of everyone involved: nursing director, faculty, students, and practicing nurses on the unit.

  • L2L_Spring2014_v6.pdf

    4. Is there a relationship between the number of continuing education hours acquired over the last two years and supervisor-rated competency? Secondary Research Questions: 1. Is there a relationship between scores on the core competency exam and self-assessed competency ratings?