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The purpose of this 6.5 hour program is to increase faculty proficiency in writing NCLEX-RN style exam questions for Module Exams and Final Exams, which in turn guide students in NCLEX-RN exam preparation. Improving the quality of exam preparation would implicate an increase of passing rates for AHU students. (Understanding of HESI reports is not a mandatory prerequisite.)

Once you register you will receive an email with registration confirmation and the program agenda, 

Presenter: Loretta Manning, MSN, RN, GNP is CEO of I CAN Publishing, Inc.

This one day event will:

1. Review the current NCLEX^®-RN Test Plan, with a focus on what is “nice to teach versus what must be taught” and “what is nice to test versus what must be included on tests”.
2. Review current NCLEX-RN^® standards as exam items are reviewed and discussed with faculty.
3. Determine the effect of the NCLEX^® standards on teacher-made exams (reviewing the challenges with questions from test banks).
4. Demonstrate the process for linking standards, NCLEX^®, Joint Commission, Patient Safety, and QSEN to tests, teaching, and thinking (clinical decision making) to the “SAFETY” Model.
5. Demonstrate how to avoid the pitfalls of test writing.
6. Review analysis with faculty regarding individual courses and practice how to revise questions.
7. Apply and practice strategies using an easy “Two-Step Approach” to revise test questions.
8. Demonstrate how to transform questions from evaluating “nice to know” to “needs to know” information.  Utilize tools to write test items that evaluate clinical decision-making and clinical judgment (Refer below to tools that will be provided to faculty during consultation).

Upon successful completion of this program the participant will be able to:

1. Determine the effect of the NCLEX(R) standards on teacher-made exams (reviewing the challenges with questions from test banks).
2. Demonstrate how to avoid the pitfalls of test writing.
3. Apply and practice strategies using an easy "Two-Step Approach" to revise test questions.
4. Demonstrate how to transform questions from evaluating "nice to know" to "needs to know" information.

Accreditation: This live event has been submitted for 6.5 contact hours for nursing by AdventHealth University Division echelon(R) an approved provider of continuing education by the Florida Board of Nursing. CE contact hours will be awarded upon successful completion; full attendance is required - no partial credit will be awarded. 

Loretta Manning, MSN, RN, GNP, is the CEO and Co-Founder of I CAN Publishing^®, Inc. an organization that specializes in services and resources to assist students and faculty in achieving successful educational outcomes. She is also the Co-Executive Director of Leading Learning, LLC an organization that provides consultation to nursing faculty in the areas of curriculum development, item writing, teaching strategies, critical thinking, and clinical teaching.  She is a nurse practitioner with a clinical background in pediatric trauma. She has taught in ADN, BSN and MSN programs. She has been a Director of Children’s and Woman’s Services at Willis Knighton Medical Center in Shreveport, LA. Loretta serves as a consultant in many schools of nursing throughout the United States.  

Loretta earned her MSN in nursing from Indiana University, BSN from Indiana State University in Terre Haute, Indiana, and nurse practitioner certificate from The University of North Carolina in Greensboro, NC.  She is an international speaker and a sought after resource for faculty development and student presentations.  Her expertise is in developing nursing faculty particularly in the areas of NCLEX^®, item writing, teaching strategies and pharmacology focusing on integrating patient safety, Joint Commission, and NCLEX^® Standards in both the classroom and clinical.  

Loretta has worked both nationally and internationally with faculty and nursing students in preparation for the NCLEX^®.  In England she worked with students from Africa, the Philippines, and Saudi Arabia. Her programs specialize in learning how to make safe clinical decisions, how to learn and manage pharmacology, and conceptual learning throughout the curriculum. Loretta is the co-author of 9 books.  Her most recent books are (2017) “Pharmacology Made Insanely Easy!” and (2018)“The Eight-Step Approach to Student Clinical Success”.  She has also co-authored “Medical Surgical Nursing Concepts Made Insanely Easy: A New Approach to Prioritizing Nursing”, “Concepts Made Insanely Easy for Clinical Nursing”, “Nursing Made Insanely Easy”, “NCLEX-RN^® 101: How to Pass!”  “NCLEX-PN^® 101: How to Pass”, “Pathways of Teaching Nursing: Keeping it Real" and “The Eight Step Approach to Teaching Clinical Nursing”. She wrote the chapter on preparing students for the NCLEX-RN^® in the book, “Mastering the Teaching Role: A Guide for Nurse Educator” (Penn, 2008). 

Loretta has co-developed and implemented a concept curriculum.  Loretta has been awarded The Outstanding Teaching award at Northwestern State University, Outstanding Clinical Instructor at Forsyth Technical Community College, and has received several awards for outstanding teaching and student support in Student Nursing Organizations across the country.  She was a graduate fellow of the Amy V. Cockcroft Leadership Development Program in 2004.