Clinical time and national council licensure exam results for baccalaureate programs

IF 2.8 3区医学 Q1 NURSING

Journal of Professional Nursing Pub Date : 2025-04-03 DOI:10.1016/j.profnurs.2025.03.012

Samantha Schmitz, Miriam R.B. Abbott

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Abstract

Background

Providing direct care, quantified by clinical hour reporting, is an integral component of nursing programs. Despite calls for research, current literature provides little evidence for best practices related to quantity of clinical practice hours. Licensure exams, a common means to measure student mastery of essential components in nursing, may provide such evidence.

Aim

The study aims to investigate a potential relationship between licensure exam performance and time in clinical hours.

Methods

The researchers examined the relationship between NCLEX® performance and clinical hours in 38 baccalaureate programs over a four year period.

Results

The correlation study indicated a very weak negative correlation between the number of clinical hours completed and NCLEX performance. The data did not demonstrate a statistically significant relationship, r(38) = −0.051, p = 0.760.

Conclusion

Clinical hours may be valuable for reasons that are not measurable. However, the absence of data supporting a particular time commitment to clinical hours may ground questions regarding patterns of resource investments in nursing education. The current measurable evidence fails to validate particular time commitments in clinical hours.

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Journal of Professional Nursing 医学-护理

CiteScore

4.80

自引率

8.00%

发文量

153

审稿时长

52 days

期刊介绍： The Journal will accept articles that focus on baccalaureate and higher degree nursing education, educational research, policy related to education, and education and practice partnerships. Reports of original work, research, reviews, insightful descriptions, and policy papers focusing on baccalaureate and graduate nursing education will be published.