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NCLEX-PN Exam Results

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To ensure public protection, the United States and its territories require entry into the practice of nursing to be regulated by licensing authorities within each jurisdiction. Each jurisdiction requires all candidates for licensure as entry-level nurses to pass an examination which assesses the knowledge required to perform safely and effectively.

NCLEX ® stands for The National Council Licensure Examination which is a standardized exam used by each state board of nursing to determine if RN or LVN candidates are competent for entry-level nursing practice. The NCLEX-PN has 205 questions and the minimum number you need to answer is 85. The NCLEX exams are administered using Computerized Adaptive Testing - CAT.

Please note that the NCLEX pass rates on this site represent the percentage of students which passed the exam on the first attempt. Also note that some students may choose not to take the NCLEX examination and are not included in these statistics. If the NCLEX pass rate is an important factor in your decision to attend a nursing school please consult with a school representative.

COS AWARDED CHANCELLOR'S OFFICE NURSING GRANT

Weed / College of the Siskiyous - Last December, in recognition of the statewide nursing shortage, the State of California allocated funding for Capacity Building Nursing Grants. Since 2000, public attention has focused on the nursing shortage in California. The California Employment Development Department (EDD) forecasts the need for 109,660 more registered nurses (RNs) by 2010. This indicates that approximately 11,000 new RNs are annually needed to fill existing nursing positions.

In recognition of the nursing shortage, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger placed a $10 million Nursing Program Capacity Building Initiative on the 2005-06 Budget. These funds were designed to provide additional support for community colleges nursing program infrastructure and equipment. The Governor's intent was to respond to the nursing shortage by increasing the enrollment capacity of community college nursing programs and to ultimately increase the number of licensed nurses in the state.

Only two $500,000 competitive awards were set aside for community colleges to develop a Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN) to Registered Nurses (RN) Step-Up Program; fifty-five awards of $127,272 were made available to colleges with infrastructure needs; and, six $300,000 awards and one $200,000 were made available to colleges for the costs of infrastructure for the first year and were only available to applicants that had also applied for one of the fifty-five awards.

In March, College of the Siskiyous Superintendent / President, David Pelham, received notification from the Chancellor's Office that the COS grant proposal was recommended to receive full funding for the period of May 1, 2006 through June 30, 2007. In addition, COS will receive $5,555 for each student enrolled in the LVN to RN Step-Up Program during the second year of the grant.

President Pelham said, "Over the last few months Dr. Barry Russell, Dean Dennis DeRoss, Grant Writer Karen Tedsen, Licensed Vocational Nursing Instructor Gerri Fedora, diligently worked on a grant application requesting full support of the development of the College's Licensed Vocational Nurses Program to a Registered Nurses "Step-Up" Program. I was informed by the Chancellor's Office that our application had been fully funded." This means that COS will receive $500,000 to begin a new LVN to RN Step-Up Program which will be available in the fall of 2007.

Any LVN who has completed the RN prerequisites will be eligible to enroll in the COS RN program. President Pelham stated there are many details yet to be worked out in the months to come. However, this is an exciting step forward for the College's Nursing Program. This new RN Program will actually begin on the Weed Campus before the new Rural Health Sciences Institute is completed at the Yreka Campus. Once the new facility is completed the Program will be moved to the Yreka Campus.

COS will develop the new RN Step-Up Program under the direction of the Board of Registered Nursing (BRN) and submit the Program to the BRN and the Chancellor's Office for approval. The College plans to enroll 24 students in the first cohort. Vice-President of Instruction, Barry Russell, said "In the interim, COS will complete some additional remodeling to the Weed Campus Nursing Lab to expand the space to accommodate the additional nursing students, and will purchase state-of-the-art equipment to provide a quality facility to meet the needs of the program while it is located on Weed Campus. All remodeling work will be completed with an eye toward making sure that the space will be appropriate for other uses when the program is relocated."

Dennis DeRoss, Dean of Career and Technical Education said, "I would like to thank all of our local health care partners and the staff who worked on this grant, especially Karen Tedsen and Gerri Fedora, for making it possible to prepare a successful proposal. I also want to express my appreciation to Linda Zorn, Regional Health Occupations Resource Center director, and Mendocino College for their technical assistance. I'm excited about what lies ahead for our nursing program and our community."

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