“Both as a nurse, but also as a potential patient, I want nurses to be highly qualified,” said Linda Aiken, PhD, RN. “I don’t think anybody in the public is interested in lowering standards for nurses ...

The reason for this reversal depends on whom you ask. Test developers have argued that rates improved due to radical transparency and massive outreach to stakeholders, while some online critics have ...

MACOMB, Ill — Western Illinois University's nursing class of 2023 received a 100% passing rate on the National Council Licensure Exam for Registered Nurses (NCLEX). The NCLEX, which is administered by ...

For the second consecutive year, every graduate of Morehead State University’s pre-licensure Bachelor of Science in Nursing program has passed the NCLEX-RN exam on their first attempt—a 100% pass rate ...

CHARLESTON — For the second year in a row, Eastern Illinois University’s Gail and Richard Lumpkin School of Nursing has led its students to achieve a 100% pass rate on the NCLEX – the licensure ...

Between January and June, NCLEX pass rates increased for both licensed practical and vocational nurse candidates, according to second quarter results of 2023 pass rates across the U.S., released Aug.

Rachel Witkowski is an award-winning journalist whose 20-year career spans a wide range of topics in finance, government regulation and congressional reporting. Ms. Witkowski has spent the last decade ...

A new American-based test is causing an uproar in Alberta's nursing community after there was a 20 per cent drop in the number of graduates who passed the exam needed to work. Last year 89 per cent of ...

The nursing profession faces a massive problem. For decades, nursing education has focused on teaching students all of the content they would need to know—disease categories, symptoms, treatments, etc ...