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An article that explores scoring concepts and illustrates some differences among types of scores and properties of scores and scales.

This annual report functions as a formal summary of NCSBN’s performance and activities during fiscal year 2012. It also provides financial information, NCLEX pass rates, member achievements, a timeline of NCSBN activities and NCSBN facts.

Reprint from Journal of Nursing Regulation 2(4), 2012

This NCLEX-RN Webinar for Canadian Nursing Educators provides an overview of the role of regulatory examinations, why the NCLEX was selected for Canadian RN entry to practice, an introduction to the elements of computerized adaptive testing and NCLEX development, as well as information on how students and educators can prepare for the NCLEX in 2015.

The objectives of this webinar are:

• Introduce regulatory background of licensure examinations
• Provide an overview of the NCLEX development process
• Identify linkage between entry-level nursing practice analysis and NCLEX test plan
• Illustrate concepts of computerized adaptive testing as they relate to the NCLEX
• Highlight NCLEX information available on the NCSBN Website
• Identify NCLEX development opportunities for Canadian nursing experts

 

Why all the buzz about NCSBN’s World Café meeting?

In December of 2011, the NCSBN Nursing Education Committee hosted a World Café meeting as part of their work to make recommendations for the future of nursing program approval. This innovative meeting brought together regulators, educators and accreditors to shape the future of nursing education. The Webinar features the results of the World Café discussions and illustrates what contributed to its success. Next steps for nursing regulatory bodies (NRBs) in moving forward with nursing program approval initiatives are discussed, highlighting our new online toolkit that provides NRBs with resources and support for requiring national nursing accreditation.

This engaging program will provide NRBs with an overview of:

• the concepts and themes from the World Cafe™ Education Meeting;
• tips on hosting a successful World Cafe™; and
• NCSBN tools to support NRBs with nursing education approval

Presenter: Nancy Spector, PhD, RN Director, Regulatory Innovations

Social media use is ubiquitous, but inappropriate posts by nurses have resulted in licensure and legal repercussions. NCSBN has developed guidelines for nurses and nursing students for using social media responsibly. Key points of these guidelines are summarized, along with dramatization of potential scenarios of inappropriate social media use.

Uniform Licensure Requirements (ULRs) are the essential prerequisites for initial, endorsement, renewal and reinstatement licensure needed across every NCSBN jurisdiction to ensure the safe and competent practice of nursing. ULRs protect the public by setting consistent standards and promoting a health care system that is fluid and accessible by removing barriers to care and maximizing portability for nurses. They also assure the consumer that a nurse in one state has met the requirements of the nurses in every other state. ULRs support the fact that the expectations for the education of a nurse and the responsibilities of a nurse are the same throughout every NCSBN member board jurisdiction in the United States.

NCSBN's Nursing Education Committee wrote a report on the first year of their work in analyzing and making recommendations for the future of approval by Boards of Nursing. This report was approved in May 2011, by NCSBN's Board of Directors.

NCSBN's Disciplinary Resources Committee studied the increasing use and misuse of social media in health care.

Nurse Practitioners (NPs) are certified within a population-focused specialty area, practice in a variety of settings, and treat a wide range of patients. Little is known about what agreement exists between certification obtained and actual site of practice. The purpose of this study was to examine NP practice sites as compared with their certification and examine additional education they received after employment.

This article discusses the importance of developing a national, standardized program, implemented through regulation, for transitioning all newly licensed nursing graduates to practice. The background for establishing this evidence-based model in the context of today’s health-care arena is presented. A model for transition and the supporting evidence are described.

The Massachusetts Board of Registration in Nursing and the University of Massachusetts Medical School Center for Health Policy and Research convened the Massachusetts Medication Safety Alliance, a 15-member collaborative of regulatory agencies and long-term care providers, to develop the Nurse-Employer Medication Safety Partnership Model to cultivate a safety culture in Massachusetts nursing homes that supports voluntary medication-event recognition and disclosure by nurses. To guide the model's development, the Alliance assessed the perceptions of 1,286 nurses working in 109 Massachusetts nursing homes, finding more than half rated their practice environment as punitive and identified fears of blame, disciplinary action, and lawsuits as barriers to medication-event reporting.