BrentRN

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  1. Shut off at 75? You mostly likely passed!

    BrentRN posted a topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    The NCLEX utilizes sophisticated Computerized Adaptive Testing (CAT) where, unlike traditional exams with a fixed number of questions, the CAT format dynamically adjusts the difficulty level of...

  2. Shut off at 75? You mostly likely passed!

    BrentRN replied to BrentRN's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    The current test has not changed at all. The COVID changes are just the removal of 15 questions that are tested against the applicants other answers for determining difficulty level. The difficulty...

  3. Shut off at 75? You mostly likely passed!

    BrentRN replied to BrentRN's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Please know that you can fail 50% of the questions and still pass. Unless you got them mostly all wrong you probably passed if it stopped at 62. The failed payment trick is not always reliable. Try...

  4. New NCLEX Exam to Replace Nursing Process With An Untested Clinical Judgment Model

    BrentRN replied to Rosalinda Alfaro-LeFevre's topic in Nursing News

    I think you are mixing up what nursing instructors and NCLEX-prep resources do to try and prepare you to be be a nurse and pass the boards. Nursing instructors are trying to prepare students for more...

  5. New NCLEX Exam to Replace Nursing Process With An Untested Clinical Judgment Model

    BrentRN replied to Rosalinda Alfaro-LeFevre's topic in Nursing News

    What is the source for this question? Unless it is from the NCSBN site this is not an example of an actual NCLEX

  6. Why are so many nurses against unions?

    BrentRN replied to Icunicenurse's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    I am not sure how the low percentage is due to the unions not doing a good job. There has been a systematic effort to kill unions in business for the last 45 years. Entire business are out there to...

  7. New NCLEX Exam to Replace Nursing Process With An Untested Clinical Judgment Model

    BrentRN replied to Rosalinda Alfaro-LeFevre's topic in Nursing News

    Are you referring to actual NCLEX-RN questions or those found in prep resources. Those are two different issues. Assuming you are referring to the actual exam, it reminds me of the questions I wrote...

  8. Why are so many nurses against unions?

    BrentRN replied to Icunicenurse's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Excellent response. I have worked in union and nonunion environments. In the nonunion meritocracy workplace I saw raises distributed at the whim of the supervisor. Those who curried her favor got more...

  9. Maybe Clinicals instructor doesn't like men

    BrentRN replied to Hardhands's topic in Male Nursing Students

    To all nursing students: If you think a faculty member has a bias due to your race, gender, or sexuality you should document in a diary format what you consider biased behavior. There may not much...

  10. Is Shortage in Nursing really a hoax?

    BrentRN replied to mikefilmstudent's topic in Male Nursing Students

    All healthcare shortages in the US are mostly a problem of distribution not numbers of available providers. We have a rural/urban divide in our country's politics and choice of home. The educated are...

  11. New NCLEX Exam to Replace Nursing Process With An Untested Clinical Judgment Model

    BrentRN replied to Rosalinda Alfaro-LeFevre's topic in Nursing News

    Their reported reason for doing it is that something like 50% of all nursing errors are committed by first year nursing students. They have concluded, without published evidence that I can find, that...

  12. New NCLEX Exam to Replace Nursing Process With An Untested Clinical Judgment Model

    BrentRN replied to Rosalinda Alfaro-LeFevre's topic in Nursing News

    You're absolutely correct, yet the NCSBN touts their research as the reason for going ahead with the

  13. New NCLEX Exam to Replace Nursing Process With An Untested Clinical Judgment Model

    BrentRN replied to Rosalinda Alfaro-LeFevre's topic in Nursing News

    I am not sure of what you are asking here. Please elaborate.

  14. Student Not Eligible for NCLEX

    BrentRN replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    A few commenters feel that requiring graduates to take an exit exam is "manipulating statistics". I think I understand what they are getting at because they feel a passing rate should not be affected...

  15. New NCLEX Exam to Replace Nursing Process With An Untested Clinical Judgment Model

    BrentRN replied to Rosalinda Alfaro-LeFevre's topic in Nursing News

    I think it is a good thing to try and improve the exam. The tested NGN questions are not problem. The problem comes from creating the questions before validating the CJM. The council claims the model...

  16. New NCLEX Exam to Replace Nursing Process With An Untested Clinical Judgment Model

    BrentRN replied to Rosalinda Alfaro-LeFevre's topic in Nursing News

    The problem is that the tested questions are simultaneously assuming the CJM is valid and that the questions validated the CJM. That is circular logic. Imagine this analogy: Suppose I have a theory...

  17. New NCLEX Exam to Replace Nursing Process With An Untested Clinical Judgment Model

    BrentRN replied to Rosalinda Alfaro-LeFevre's topic in Nursing News

    The issue here is that the NCSBN has conflated two issues. The first is their ongoing efforts to improve the NCLEX-RN exam's ability to identify a safe, beginning nurse. Licensure was first done with...

  18. New NCLEX Exam to Replace Nursing Process With An Untested Clinical Judgment Model

    BrentRN replied to Rosalinda Alfaro-LeFevre's topic in Nursing News

    This topic may seem arcane to the average nursing student but it is important to learn about. I recommend nursing students talk with their nursing faculty about this issue when they return to school....

  19. Shut off at 75? You mostly likely passed!

    BrentRN replied to BrentRN's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    An interesting hypothesis. I think the NCSBN should do post-test research on candidates' state before and after the exam, and how they may correlate with

  20. Trump's 'religious conscience'

    BrentRN replied to PediatricMA's topic in General Nursing

    This has become a long thread but we need to remember that the rules were instituted to appease those who wanted others to tolerate their

  21. Is Shortage in Nursing really a hoax?

    BrentRN replied to mikefilmstudent's topic in Male Nursing Students

    You can receive a reduced SS benefit at 62. 67 is the age for "full benefit" but it continues to rise each month you delay until you are 70. You have larger monthly checks but you have to live long...

  22. Maybe Clinicals instructor doesn't like men

    BrentRN replied to Hardhands's topic in Male Nursing Students

    As a nursing student in the 1970s I had an instructor flat out tell me she did not think men belonged in nursing. We were "taking jobs away from women". That was at a time when it was harder for women...

  23. Shut off at 75? You mostly likely passed!

    BrentRN replied to BrentRN's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    That's why I said "you most likely passed" and not "you passed". The vast majority of 75 question exam takers

  24. Trump's 'religious conscience'

    BrentRN replied to PediatricMA's topic in General Nursing

    Use Pinocchio to help you: Conscience = Jiminy Cricket Conscious = Pinocchio after he became

  25. Trump's 'religious conscience'

    BrentRN replied to PediatricMA's topic in General Nursing

    Some points of clarification: References to a god or higher power are only found in the Declaration of Independence but there are none in the US Constitution. The Declaration has no legal bearing. In...