HJNO Sep/Oct 2019

44 sep / OCT 2019 I  Healthcare Journal of New Orleans column nursing As part of the Strategic Practice Analysis conducted in 2013-2014, the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) launched a project to determine the reliability of test items in assessing critical judgment and decision-making skills in new graduates. Over the last 5 years, the research done in this area by NCSBN has come to be known as Next Generation NCLEX or NGN. Several phases of research have been conducted and are depicted in the following model 1 : PREPARING NEWLY LICENSED NURSES FOR COMPLEX DECISION-MAKING: THE NEXT GENERATION NCLEX (NGN) PROJECT