Improving NCLEX scores with structured learning assistance

Nurse Educ. 2006 Jul-Aug;31(4):163-5. doi: 10.1097/00006223-200607000-00009.

Abstract

Many faculty struggle to find the best way to prepare their nursing students for the NCLEX exam. Nursing faculty at Ferris State University identified, along with other issues, a lack of structured remediation throughout students' clinical courses. The author explains how NCLEX review was incorporated into an existing university-wide remediation program, resulting in an increase in our students' pass rates from 65% to 92%.

Publication types

  • Evaluation Study

MeSH terms

  • Attitude of Health Personnel
  • Curriculum
  • Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / organization & administration*
  • Educational Measurement / statistics & numerical data*
  • Faculty, Nursing / organization & administration
  • Humans
  • Learning
  • Licensure, Nursing*
  • Needs Assessment / organization & administration
  • Nurse's Role
  • Nursing Education Research
  • Professional Staff Committees / organization & administration
  • Program Evaluation
  • Remedial Teaching / organization & administration*
  • Students, Nursing / psychology