In January 2023, we reported on the reasons why nursing exam pass rates fell in 2020 and 2021. In this report, we follow up on what has happened since. The reason for this reversal depends on whom you ...

Nursing oversight groups in the United States and Canada are holding the line on testing standards as more would-be nurses fail entry exams. As a result, pressure is growing to make tests easier to ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the percentage of students who passed the national licensure exam for nurses fell from 88.2% to 79.9%, but the trend is reversing after the release of the latest nursing ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Graduating in a pandemic required a degree of determination that wasn’t on anybody’s syllabus. The 18 students who this spring completed Bethune-Cookman University’s L. Gale Lemerand School of Nursing ...