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• Impact in Action: Nurses Share their NLC Stories
• Lights, Camera and ACTION! NCSBN Partners with CBS Community Partnership Program to Educate the Public About the Next Generation NCLEX Project
• A New Assessment Model for Internationally Qualified Nurses and Midwives in Australia
• 2020 Year of the Nurse and Midwife: Celebrating Success, Identifying Challenges and Proposing Solutions
• Texas Alternative Disciplinary Option for Practice Remediation Shows Success

An online publication that provides an overview of the regulatory environment in which the 59 nursing regulatory bodies function. Visit the National Nursing Database to download various reports. Updated annually.

This annual report functions as a formal summary of NCSBN’s performance and activities during fiscal year 2019. NCSBN divides its Annual Report into two parts. The first part includes financial and business information including operating statements and listings of the Board of Directors, committees and staff that follows NCSBN’s fiscal year spanning Oct. 1, 2018 to Sept. 30, 2019. This document is posted here.

This biennial report covers the period from Oct. 1, 2017 to Sept. 30, 2019.

The Next Generation NCLEX exam is about asking better questions to help nurses think critically when providing care to a client.

To meet today’s client needs, improved measurement of the nurse’s clinical judgment is critical. At NCSBN, we are dedicated to assessing, and adapting to, the rapidly evolving health care environment, that’s why we are developing Next Generation NCLEX. 

• 2020 Global Year of the Nurse
• Honoring a Tireless, Forward-thinking Reformer
• Wyoming Board President Assists During In-flight Medical Emergency
• One NCSBN: a Workplace Cultural Transformation
• The NLC Leads the Way in an Extraordinary Time of Growth and Change
• 2019 Annual Meeting Recap: Forumulating Strategy & Aligning Influence

• An Interview with a Scholar in Residence and an Intern in NCSBN’s Regulatory Scholars Program
• Promoting the Role of the Nurse with a Unique Nurse Identifier
• SSR Study Results: The Need for Improving Math Education in Nursing
• Missouri State Board of Nursing Hosts Nursing Students in Preceptorships
• NCSBN’s Member Board Profiles
• NCSBN Defines Clinical Judgment for Purposes of the Next Generation NCLEX

This webinar will discuss how NCSBN sets the passing standard for the NCLEX-RN and NCLEX-PN examinations. Topics covered will include:

• How the judges are selected;
• What method is used in setting the passing standard; and
• What a standard setting workshop looks like.

The periodic performance of practice analysis (i.e., job analysis) studies assists BCCNM and CNO in evaluating the validity of the test plan that guides content distribution of the licensure examination for Licensed Practical/Registered Practical Nurses (LPN/RPNs). Because the Canadian health care industry is rapidly changing, practice analysis studies will be conducted by BCCNM and CNO on a five-year cycle. This practice analysis was conducted with the assistance of National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN). 

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 NGN project.

Standard setting is a process used by testing professionals to determine the passing score on a test. It is an important step in establishing the validity and legal-defensibility of an exam program. The NCLEX-RN and NCLEX-PN exams re-evaluate their respective passing standards triennially. In this session, NCSBN staff will discuss the steps involved in setting NCLEX passing standards.