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Teach Today’s Educators to Preparefor client safety and the Next Generation NCLEX

The Sylvia Rayfield & Associates team consists of nurse educators who are qualified NCLEX® specialists. Our facilitators have been an integral part of nursing education since 1980 and have been helping colleges and universities be extremely successful on NCLEX. Our Faculty Development Continuing Education Workshops are energetic, creative, and most importantly 'PERSONAL'. Enhance your skills with the tools we teach you. We can create a customized program to assist you in developing new strategies to improve overall NCLEX® exam success and decrease the drop-out rates of your students. 

ITEM WRITING AND TEST DEVELOPMENT FOR CJ (CLINICAL JUDGMENT)
Based on the NCSBN’s Next Generation NCLEX  (NGN) Project

Consultations, Workshops & Conventions

#1 - What is NGN?

  • What is NGN?
  • Why should we make a change? Is this an ethical issue?
  • How do we write items that test appropriately for these decision making skills?
  • How do we develop ideas for items that are most useful for this model?
  • Are there “Bottom Line Questions” that will make item writing easier?
  • How will we grade these exams?
  • What about the standard measurements that we are currently using?
This is a one-day consultation/workshop that answers these and many other questions regarding safe nursing practice and success on the NGN.

#2 - Teaching Clinical Judgement

  • How do we prepare students to pass exams that are based on CJ (clinical judgment)?
  • How will our lecture and simulation lab assist with this change?
  • How soon should this change take place?
  • How will this change be evaluated?
  • Is there a useful outline that we can follow to make this change easier?
  • How do we prepare ourselves and students emotionally for this change?
This is a second consultation/workshop that answers these and many other questions regarding the teaching of safe nursing practice and frameworks to insure that safety.

#3 - Evaluating Clinical Judgement

  • Is there a legal and ethical issue regarding the failure to fail progression of a nursing student who does not demonstrate safe practice?
  • When does competency begin?
  • How does the CJ model affect our clinical evaluation tools?
  • Does our evaluation depend on written tools and projects or what the student DOES about a patient problem?
  • How do we evaluate risk, priority and urgency?
  • How do we evaluate the ability of what does the student DOES about it?
  • How do we evaluate the ability to justify actions?
  • What about our external accreditation providers?
This is the 3rd one-day consultation/workshop program that answers these questions, plus brings everything together from the previous two workshops. These workshops provide a far better advantage for faculty groups that utilize them in succession. After the first workshop, the second and third may be combined into one if this better fits the program’s needs.

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OUR GREATEST SUCCESS IS ACHIEVED WHEN COMBINING FACULTY DEVELOPMENT & LIVE REVIEWS!
 
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YOU PICK THE TOPIC AND THE FOCUS, WE WILL CUSTOM-DEVELOP THE PROGRAM YOU NEED FOR CONTINUING EDUCATION. 

Call our office to get started, 1 (800) 234-0575. Due to the confidential consultations, the only published faculty developments listed here are workshops that are open sessions for all to attend.

BELOW ARE FREE DOWNLOADABLE RESOURCES FOR OUR FACULTY DEVELOPMENT BOOKS AND WORKSHOPS

This information can be found at NCSBN.org in more detail. Every attempt will be made by Sylvia Rayfield & Associates, Inc. to keep this information up-to-date and most current.

BELOW ARE FREE DOWNLOADABLE RESOURCES

This information can be found at NCSBN.org in more detail. Every attempt will be made by Sylvia Rayfield & Associates, Inc. to keep this information up-to-date and most current.

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NEW 4th Edition - Nursing Test Development for NCLEX®-RN Success with extensive updates and an innovative chapter on the NGN (Next Generation NCLEX®-RN ). This easy to read book provides directions on developing a test plan and writing nursing items that ensure NCLEX® success!
Paperback edition • 87 pages

Test Development, Item Writing & the Next General NCLEX:
Our most prevalent and powerful tool to help your students succeed

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Test Development and Item Writing: Our Most Prevalent and Powerful One-day Workshop

  • We carefully analyze your exams for appropriate difficulty level.
  • We demonstrate item writing made easy and provide “Bottom Line Questions” for you.
  • We help you learn to write the NEXT GENERATION TEST ITEMS which test decision making and clinical judgment utilizing enhanced technology.
  • We identify grade inflation and demonstrate its impact on the curriculum.
  • AND we provide evidence- based data to back it up.
2.

Teaching Strategies for the Current Generation of Nursing Students

  • Utilize collaboration for the way they learn today.
  • Learn how to use technology and simulation for teaching clinical judgment.
  • Utilize accelerated learning techniques that increase memory for study and test taking.
  • Recognize relationships, collaboration, ownership and active participation as vital to learning.
3.

Teach "What’s Nice to Know vs. What’s Needed to Know"

  • Bringing the Next Generation NCLEX® standards into the classroom.
  • Prioritize concepts for teaching presentations.
  • Discover where to focus most when utilizing technology and simulations.
  • Dramatically Increase NCLEX® pass rates!
4.

We Will Customize any Faculty Development Your Program Needs!

  • We have been successful for over 39 years.
  • We specialize in student preparation.
  • We keep up to date on the most current information and changes each year.
  • Our educators attend regular meetings to cover new medical advances.
  • We work with both NCLEX-RN® and NCLEX-PN® students.
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