McCloskey Rose, Stewart Connie, Burke Lisa Keeping
Professor, Department of Nursing & Health Sciences, University of New Brunswick, Saint John, NB.
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New Brunswick, Saint John, NB.
Nurs Leadersh (Tor Ont). 2019 Dec;32(4):30-45. doi: 10.12927/cjnl.2020.26103.
The National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN) has been the nursing licensure exam in most Canadian jurisdictions since 2015. Nursing faculty across the country have invested considerable effort into understanding the NCLEX-RN, so they could help to prepare students to be successful in the exam. A retrospective study was conducted at one Canadian university to identify predictors of success on the NCLEX-RN. Findings revealed that the strongest predictors of success were a grade point average of >3.5 and a course grade in the community development course. The strong predictive value of the community development course was unexpected, and this suggests that content specifically related to acute care may not play as heavy a role in the NCLEX-RN outcome as previously expected. It is possible that students' higher levels of cognitive abilities, such as application, analysis and synthesis of nursing knowledge, play a larger role in the exam outcome than content-specific knowledge.
自2015年以来，美国国家执业护士执照考试（NCLEX-RN）一直是加拿大大多数司法管辖区的护士执照考试。全国各地的护理教师投入了大量精力来了解NCLEX-RN，以便帮助学生为考试成功做好准备。加拿大一所大学进行了一项回顾性研究，以确定NCLEX-RN考试成功的预测因素。研究结果显示，成功的最强预测因素是平均绩点大于3.5以及社区发展课程的成绩。社区发展课程具有很强的预测价值，这出乎意料，这表明与急性护理具体相关的内容在NCLEX-RN考试结果中可能没有之前预期的那么重要。有可能学生较高水平的认知能力，如护理知识的应用、分析和综合能力，在考试结果中比特定内容的知识发挥着更大的作用。
