Evolving Licensure Examination: Assessing Student Confidence and Accuracy With Next Generation NCLEX.

Background: The Next Generation NCLEX (NGN) includes new item types. Little is known about nursing students' confidence and accuracy in answering these questions.

Method: A descriptive comparative study examined prelicensure nursing students' confidence and accuracy in answering NGN-style items versus multiple-choice questions (MCQs) of the same content via a 12-item quiz.

Social Determinants of Health: Understanding the Basics and Their Impact on Chronic Kidney Disease.

Social determinants of health (SDOH) are non-medical factors, such as socioeconomic status, education, neighborhood/physical environment, social network, employment, and access to health care, which can shape individuals' health and affect a wide range of health risks and outcomes. These social determinants of health and their associated health disparities and inequities are powerful predictors of mortality and morbidity. Chronic kidney disease disproportionally affects populations with relatively poor social determinants of health.

Demographics of the older adult and chronic kidney disease: a literature review.

Older adults (65 years of age and older) comprised 4.1% of the population in 1900 (3.1 million), rose to 13.

Recruitment, retention and matriculation of ethnic minority nursing students: a University of Mississippi School of Nursing approach.

According to Bednash (2000), the future of health care pivots on an adequate supply of appropriately educated and skilled professional registered nurses. Recognizing the long history of and the struggles by African-American (AA) nurses for education and equality in the nursing profession, it is essential that more African-American students be recruited, retained, and matriculated into the profession of nursing. African-American nurses have always contributed to the care of the poor and the sick and played a decisive role in the improvement of the health of their communities.