An Evaluation of NurseAchieve: Preparing Canadian Nursing Students to Write the NCLEX-RN Exam

NurseAchieve 评估：帮助加拿大护理学生准备 NCLEX-RN 考试

• 批准号: 520813-2017
• 负责人: Parsons, John
• 金额: $ 1.82万
• 依托单位: George Brown College of Applied Arts and Technology
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Applied Research and Development Grants - Level 1
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2017-01-01 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=641716
• 关键词: Evaluation; NurseAchieve; Preparing; Canadian; Nursing

The Achieve Group of Companies (PharmAchieve /NurseAchieve) are among Canada's largest health care training companieswith 5 full time employees and some 250 contractors hired annually cross Canada. PharmAchieve have demonstrated product andtechnology leadership in standardized exam preparation for pharmacy students across Canada. The NCLEX-RN, althoughdeveloped in the US, is an end of training examination that every Canadian nurse must pass to begin practice as an entry-levelregistered nurse (RN). PharmAchieve is extrapolating the technology and knowledge acquired through their development ofpharmacy exam materials to work with a team of experienced nurses to develop Canadian nursing preparatory materials related toNCLEX-RN content with the goal of improving Canadian nursing students success rates in the exam. Their preparatory program,called NurseAchieve, includes reviewing and evaluating students performance, practice test questions, as well as Computeradaptive testing (CAT) that tailors both the difficulty and number of items to an examinee. Video lectures will complement thispreparatory material. The goal of the present research is to test, validate and enhance the NurseAchieve product. This program ofresearch will provide PharmAchieve with the independent user-testing evaluation of their completed preparatory material. Theusability and validation phases of this project will set the stage for potential follow-on research also on predictive analysis. Thesesequential phases will ultimately enable the Achieve Group of Companies to demonstrate if engagement in NurseAchievepreparatory materials relate to NCLEX-RN students success, to improve the product, and provide a validated basis for marketingtheir product to nursing graduates.

Achieve 集团公司（PharmAchieve /NurseAchieve）是加拿大最大的医疗保健培训公司之一，每年在加拿大各地雇用 5 名全职员工和约 250 名承包商。 PharmAchieve 在为加拿大各地药学学生准备标准化考试方面展现了产品和技术的领先地位。 NCLEX-RN 虽然是在美国开发的，但它是每位加拿大护士必须通过的培训结束考试，才能开始作为初级注册护士 (RN) 的实践。 PharmAchieve 正在推断通过开发药学考试材料所获得的技术和知识，与经验丰富的护士团队合作开发与 NCLEX-RN 内容相关的加拿大护理准备材料，目的是提高加拿大护理学生的考试成功率。他们的预备计划名为“NurseAchieve”，包括审查和评估学生的表现、练习测试问题，以及根据考生的难度和项目数量定制计算机自适应测试 (CAT)。视频讲座将补充本准备材料。目前研究的目标是测试、验证和增强 NurseAchieve 产品。该研究计划将为 PharmAchieve 提供对其已完成的准备材料的独立用户测试评估。该项目的可用性和验证阶段将为预测分析的潜在后续研究奠定基础。这些连续的阶段最终将使 Achieve 集团公司能够证明 NurseAchieve 准备材料的参与是否与 NCLEX-RN 学生的成功相关，以改进产品，并为向护理毕业生营销其产品提供有效的基础。