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Participants will learn the latest from across the country from your Federal Affairs and State Affairs teams. Updates on federal legislation and administrative agency policy, both passed and pending, will be covered, highlighting the work of NCSBN and our nursing coalition partners. The State Affairs team will bring you the latest updates on the Nurse Licensure Compact, APRN Compact and NursingAmerica campaigns and activities our team is engaged in to move nursing regulation policy forward.

This presentation will review Alabama Board of Nursing legislation to enhance public protection through establishment of scope of practice standardization, and regulation of various supportive nursing personnel, including certified nursing support technicians, providing care to patients in hospital-based and non-long-term care settings.

The Leadership Succession Committee is looking for interested parties to run for NCSBN elected office in August 2024. This presentation focuses on open positions, the process of nomination and the work of the committee regarding leadership development.

• Nursing Workforce Crisis: Healing the Healer -- Addressing Wellness and Mental Health
• Honoring an Unsung Hero: Suzanne Hunt sas served the nurses and patients of Tennessee for more than 50 years
• Pathways to Leadership: Lead from Where You are
• Quantifying the Value of Nursing Practice: NCSBN’s Unique Nurse Identifier, the NCSBN ID, is a free, secure, turnkey solution to identifying and documenting the care provided by each nurse

Panel discussion with nursing industry experts about the importance of the NCSBN ID, the one true unique nurse identifier. The NCSBN ID identifies nurses across systems and throughout their careers, providing vital nursing data while protecting their personally identifiable information (PII).

This webinar will provide an overview of a critical procedure that ensures all examinees have an equal opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge, skills, and abilities on entry-level content when taking the NCLEX. We will explain the methodology of differential item functioning (DIF) that is used to ensure that each item is measuring all diverse subgroups in the same way. Engaging in on-going item analysis is part of keeping the NCLEX a reliable and valid licensure exam where each examinee has an equal opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge. The Examinations Measurement and Testing team will present the webinar.

Webinar topics include:

• Overview of what DIF is and how we measure it.
• Overview of how we handle items identified with DIF.