Nursing Exam Failure Rates Spark Review

[toomuchbaloney]

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NCLEX pass rates have dropped from about 73% for all candidates and 88% for first-time US educated candidates to 69% and 82% respectively in 2021, the last full year for which results are available, NCSBN spokesperson Dawn Kappel told Medscape.

Nursing Exam Failure Rates Spark Review of Test Results

The deep need for new nurses had people considering dropping the standard to allow licensing of more graduates. Fortunately, there is resistance to that idea. 

[Rose_Queen, BSN, MSN, RN]

Tenebrae said:

In NZ we have a standardised curriculum and its the same regardless the nursing school a student attends

Each state has requirements, so the programs in a state should cover the same curriculum.

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I find it horrifying that some you have nurses who get to sit the NCLEX 6 plus times 

Many states have set limits of requiring the first attempt within a set time from graduation as well as limiting the number of attempts. We're getting there, and the news of the 7,600 bought degrees is probably going to only light the fire for more oversight.

[Hoosier_RN, MSN]

Rose_Queen said:

We're getting there, and the news of the 7,600 bought degrees is probably going to only light the fire for more oversight.

One could only hope. I wish that we could get to the point that each state was the same as far as requirements, and school curricula was the same across the board as far as core content. Prereqs and such for ADN vs BSN would differ of course. It would stop confusion when license transfers occur

[londonflo]

Hoosier_RN said:

I wish that we could get to the point that each state was the same as far as requirements, and school curricula was the same across the board as far as core content.

If a college of nursing is nursing accredited, the accrediting body would investigate the curriculum and the NCLEX scores. These for-profit schools do not have that burden to have their curriculums scrutinized.  They can keep you in school despite a student not really learning important material as well as critical thinking skills. (may be the material was not presented to them) Most of these for-profit, non profit unaccredited schools do not show their faculty teaching  credentials .)  More tuition is paid that way. They  add an Exit exam to prevent students from graduating, as they cannot  achieve a passing score on a standardized test which mimics NCLEX,

We read this all the time......"I passed all my exams but cannot pass HESI to graduate.