Abstract
Purpose
Methods
Results
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Authors’ contributions
Conceptualization: KK, YK, YS. Data collection: KK, SYK, YK, YK, HK, YS, JC, MC, HSL. Methodology/analysis/validation: KK, YK, SYK, HK, JC. Project administration: KK, HSL. Funding acquisition: KK, HSL. Writing–original draft: KK, SYK, YK, HK, JC, MC, HSL. Writing–review & editing: KK, YK, YS.
Funding
This work was supported by the Korea Health Personnel Licensing Examination Institute (Fund ref ID: 10.13039/501100003647) research fund (RE02-2111-05).
Data availability
Data files are available from Harvard Dataverse: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/S4CZRO
Dataset 1. Raw response data from 7 academic societies on the 2 rounds of the opinion survey.
Supplementary materials
Notes
Editor’s note
This article is a part of a research report titled “Basic research on the development of item criteria based on the integrated model of the Korean Nursing Licensing Examination,” supported by the Korea Health Personnel Licensing Examination Institute. The source report has an enormous amount of research and survey results. Only a part of the content was included in this article. For more specific content, the original report is provided in Supplement 3. Although it is written in Korean, readers who are interested in this topic will be able to obtain more information. Research has long been conducted on the same topics and subject classification based on job descriptions. However, the test subjects of the Korean Nursing Licensing Examination are still based on the major fields of nursing, including nursing management, fundamental nursing, women’s health nursing, adult nursing, children’s health nursing, psychiatric and mental health nursing, community health nursing, and medical law. Therefore, competency, activity, or job-based integrated subjects should be developed based on consensus among interested groups.
References
Table 1.
Table 2.
Activity category | Activity statements | Knowledge statements | Survey | NM | FN | WH | AN | CH | PMH | CHN | Total after 2nd survey |
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Management of care and improvement of professionalism | 22 | 79 | 1st | 29 | 2 | 41 | |||||
2nd | 30 | 1 | 2 | 8 | |||||||
Safety and infection control | 3 | 25 | 1st | 4 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 16 | |||
2nd | 3 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||||
Management of potential risk | 28 | 93 | 1st | 2 | 10 | 2 | 31 | ||||
2nd | 2 | 13 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||||
Basic care | 19 | 60 | 1st | 12 | 15 | 37 | |||||
2nd | 12 | 15 | 8 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Physiological integrity and maintenance | 36 | 130 | 1st | 6 | 39 | 2 | 63 | ||||
2nd | 6 | 8 | 39 | 7 | 2 | 1 | |||||
Pharmacological and parenteral therapies | 7 | 14 | 1st | 4 | 2 | 2 | 11 | ||||
2nd | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | ||||||
Psychosocial integrity and maintenance | 9 | 43 | 1st | 2 | 22 | 41 | |||||
2nd | 1 | 2 | 14 | 22 | 2 | ||||||
Health promotion and maintenance | 10 | 37 | 1st | 2 | 33 | ||||||
2nd | 13 | 2 | 18 | ||||||||
Total | 134 | 481 | 33 (2)a) | 30 | 35 | 70 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 273 (2)b) |
NM, nursing management; FN, fundamental nursing; WH, women’s health nursing; AN, adult nursing; CH, children’s health nursing; PMH, psychiatric and mental health nursing; CHN, community health nursing.
Table 3.
Table 4.
Activity category | NCLEX-RN [9] (2019) | Knowledge statements from item model | Tak et al. [9] (2019) | A guideline on item-making based on the opinion survey of the academic societies | Revised guideline on item-making |
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Management of care and improvement of professionalism | (17–23, 20) | 79 (16.4) | 50 (18.2) | 41 (15.0) | 50 (18.2) |
Safety and infection control | (9–15, 12) | 25 (5.2) | 27 (9.8) | 16 (5.9) | 33 (12.0) |
Management of potential risk | (9–15, 12) | 93 (19.3) | 44 (16.0) | 31 (11.4) | 40 (14.5) |
Basic care | (6–12, 9) | 60 (12.5) | 27 (9.8) | 37 (13.6) | 28 (10.2) |
Physiological integrity and maintenance | (11–17, 14) | 130 (27.0) | 55 (20.0) | 63 (23.1) | 47 (17.1) |
Pharmacological and parenteral therapies | (12–18, 15) | 14 (2.9) | 27 (9.8) | 11 (4.0) | 33 (12.0) |
Psychosocial integrity and maintenance | (6–12, 9) | 43 (8.9) | 25 (9.1) | 41 (15.0) | 24 (8.7) |
Health promotion and maintenance | (6–12, 9) | 37 (7.7) | 20 (7.3) | 33 (12.1) | 20 (7.3) |
Total | -100 | 481 (100.0) | 275 (100.0) | 273a) (100.0) | 275b) (100.0) |
Values are presented as (%) or number (%). The NCLEX-RN exam is managed according to the candidate’s competency level, so the distribution of the number of items for each section may vary by up to ±3% depending on the test taker’s time. Further information is available at: https://www.ncsbn.org/2019_RN_TestPlan-English.pdf NCLEX-RN, National Council License Examination for Registered Nurses.