BrentRN PhD

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 questions based on the test taker's performance. T...

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 level and passing rates are comparable to the scores...

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 going to your state board of nursing site to search ...

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 than the exam. The exam only tests minimum safety...

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

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 help businesses keep union away. Employees will be t...

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 for exams that require application of knowledge ra...

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 money each year. "Merit" raises need to be based ...

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 that can be done unless it is blatant. Ask other clin...

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 more likely move away from rural areas leaving few...

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 the licensure exam must be to blame. The long stat...

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

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

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 by an exit exam requirement. Based on the many sta...

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 was validated via an expert review but that is an ...

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 that homeopathic medicines are using "quantum level ...

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 paper and pencil tests on five areas of practice t...

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. The National Council is changing the exam and chan...

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 success.

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 intolerance.

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 enough to get back the money you deferred.

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 to break into professions outside nursing or teac...

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

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

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 God We Trust started appearing during the Civil W...