Just wondering if anyone else has heard that the NCLEX is going to be changing the way the test questions are formatted ie, multiple answers to questions, using charts, graphs, fill in the blanks and of course the regular multiple choice. All this is to be effective for GN taking the test on or after April 2003. Share some feedback if you have any. What are your feelings or concerns about this. Also heard of short answer essay questions. This is all on there website. NCSBN.ORG Click on bottom left hand corner where it says NCLEX innovative items.
I spoke with a professor at school who sits in to write NCLEX questions. She told me not to worry about the new questions, just to relax. But, after my brigade of questions, she told me some topics that they submitted for the "innovative questions."
Traction
Crutch Walking
Decubitus
Pin Sites (traction)
EKG
She emphasized traction, crutch ambulation, and delegation while talking with her.
I thought I needed to share this tidbit of info with all of you. It's not fair for me to know something alone.
I am wondering if the traction they are talking about deals with pediatrics? I can kind of remember there being like 4 or 5 different types of traction for kids. Anyhow...I do not even remember covering traction in my adult ortho lectures.
Well, I am off to clinical this morning. I am being put on a floor where the nurses have already kicked 2 sets of students off of. I really do not know why they are putting me there, but I am sure I will have an interesting day.
Our instructor just returned from a conference about NCLEX and she was told these changes WILL be implemented in April. They were told the questions had already been tested and were ready to be implemented!
Now catch this one! Our faculty has decided that to best prepare us for these changes, they will begin adding theses types of questions to our tests. With only 8 weeks of school left!!!!!
Our class will be meeting witht he dean on March 10. She said it was an emergency meeting so I have a feeling that this information will be told to us as well.
In regards to the questions on our tests beign changed...I am doubting it because that is how we have been tested since the beginning. Believe me....it really sucks
I want to know where they've tested these questions? I haven't heard of a single person taking these innovative questions yet. NCLEX won't put questions on a test until it has been previously tested and statistically analyzed. I think that if they have not proven that this has been done and that if people start failing NCLEX due tho these questions lawsuits will be filed. They say that the questions can "count" starting in April but I don't think they have even started implementing it yet.
laurasjj
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I spoke with a professor at school who sits in to write NCLEX questions. She told me not to worry about the new questions, just to relax. But, after my brigade of questions, she told me some topics that they submitted for the "innovative questions."
Traction
Crutch Walking
Decubitus
Pin Sites (traction)
EKG
She emphasized traction, crutch ambulation, and delegation while talking with her.
I thought I needed to share this tidbit of info with all of you. It's not fair for me to know something alone.
Laura