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

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在加拿大药学专业学生的标准化考试准备方面展示了产品和技术的领先地位。NCLEX-RN虽然是在美国开发的，但它是一种培训考试的结束，每个加拿大护士必须通过该考试才能开始作为入门级注册护士（RN）的实践。PharmAchieve是外推的技术和知识，通过他们的发展ofpharmacy考试材料获得的工作与经验丰富的护士团队，以提高加拿大护理学生在考试中的成功率的目标，开发与NCLEX-RN内容相关的加拿大护理预备材料。他们的预备计划，称为NurseAchieve，包括审查和评估学生的表现，练习试题，以及计算机自适应测试（CAT），为考生量身定制试题的难度和数量。视频讲座将补充这些准备材料。本研究的目标是测试、验证和增强NurseAchieve产品。该研究计划将为PharmAchieve提供独立的用户测试评估，以完成其准备材料。该项目的可用性和验证阶段将为潜在的后续研究以及预测分析奠定基础。这些连续的阶段将最终使公司的实现集团证明，如果在护士预备材料的参与涉及到NCLEX-RN学生的成功，以改善产品，并提供一个有效的基础，为营销他们的产品护理毕业生。

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.