What is the benefit of this course?

Despite high pass rates on the US nursing licensure exam, the National Council Licensure Exam for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN) (ncsbn.org), graduates of nursing programs are struggling to make safe decisions in today's complex healthcare environment (Kavanagh & Sharpnack, 2021). Therefore, the Next Generation NCLEX has been introduced to assess the development of clinical judgment in US (ncsbn.org). Use of a clinical judgment model to guide a strategic combination of teaching and learning strategies, provide a common language, and guide alignment of the curriculum is recommended. Multiple research and evidence-based models exist, yet pre-licensure nursing programs use a clinical judgment model to guide teaching and learning, and what teaching strategies are currently used was unknown. The purpose of this course is to provide foundational evidence for how pre-licensure nursing programs are using clinical judgment models and teaching strategies to promote students' clinical judgment, and present a framework to support faculty integration of a clinical judgment model and use of multiple teaching strategies in pre-licensure nursing curricula.