国家护理委员会推出了一项更新的执照考试,重点是评估临床判断, the first-time pass rate in the U.S. rose from 80.5% to 94% earlier this year.
In Nebraska, 哪里的COVID-19大流行加剧了全州的护士短缺, the pass rate also rose with the new iteration of the licensing test, according to Theresa Delahoyde, the chair of the Nebraska Board of Nursing.
9所提供护理专业的高等教育机构的官方结果将于2024年1月底公布, 但林肯地区的三所护理学校已经宣布,他们的首次通过率达到100%.
Bryan College of Health Sciences, 内布拉斯加州卫斯理大学和联合学院报告说,春季毕业的所有护理专业学生都在5月份成功通过了新的全国注册护士执照考试委员会(NCLEX-RN).
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护理指导员说,研究结果应该会让人们对医疗保健系统产生信心,这些系统将聘用这些新上任的护士以及由她们照顾的病人.
"All of the schools have been working very hard at this," said Delahoyde, who is also the dean of undergraduate nursing at Bryan. "We don't take this for granted at all."
The new version of NCLEX, 一种几十年来用来衡量护士候选人的知识基础和技能的标准化考试, 是经过十多年的研究和发展,随着护士的期望变得更加复杂而引入的.
Introduced in April, 下一代NCLEX旨在衡量护士在提供病人护理时的批判性思维和决策能力,要求他们通过病人图表和综合几条信息来确定病人是否正在康复.
德拉霍伊德说:“这更符合他们在临床环境中看到的现实生活。.
The change in NCLEX's led to changes in the curriculum at Bryan, which had 47 students pass the exam on their first attempt this year, 以及内布拉斯加州卫斯理大学和联合大学,因为他们试图帮助学生准备考试.
Brittney Fritzinger, the department chair for nursing at Nebraska Wesleyan, which has offered a bachelor's of science in nursing since 2015, 她说,“下一代NCLEX”被用作教师与学生一对一合作的蓝图,以缩小他们在学习上的任何差距.
“这些结果有助于建立我们的信心,我们有能力培养有能力的毕业生," Fritzinger said, 特别是在疫情期间被迫进行远程学习的22名学生.
"Initially, 我们有点担心,因为我们失去了面对面的交流, 但令人鼓舞的是,这是可以做到的," she added.
联合学院以前在旧版本的测试中实现了100%的首次通过率, 但护理项目主任埃莉西亚·奥肯加表示,课程经过调整,以确保学生对他们将面临的问题有经验.
When it came time for the exam, 今年春天参加NCLEX课程的9名护理专业学生充满了信心。由于新冠肺炎期间入学人数下降,这是工会护士中规模较小的班级之一, Ockenga said.
她说:“我认为教师们可能比学生们更有压力。. "They said they felt like they were really well prepared, 这就证明了所有教员的努力让他们觉得自己并没有进入一个全新的领域."
这三所学校都表示,100%的首次通过率为未来的学生设定了很高的门槛, 但他们相信,这些学生也为更年轻的学生指明了前进的道路.
“这增加了一点压力,但我也认为这表明他们可以做到,”Fritzinger说.
奥肯加说,让学生为下一代NCLEX做准备是一项“团队努力”,需要教师的时间和才能来创造帮助学生成功的学习活动和“有意义的经历”, as well as students being intentional in their learning.
“我非常自豪,因为我们有很多人进入这个行业,他们认真对待这个行业,并希望为病人提供最好的护理," she said.
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