The National Council Licensure Examination is a test nurses must clear to obtain their professional licence in the United States, Canada and Australia.
The NCLEX-RN exam is designed to ascertain if candidates are indeed capable of safely beginning practice as entry-level nurses. The NCLEX-RN test focuses on application and analysis in a sharp departure from exams conducted at nursing schools where subject knowledge is often the only yardstick. The emphasis at NCLEX-RN is on critical thinking skills that help one make sound nursing judgments.
NCLEX-RN tests are structured in keeping with the framework, ‘Meeting Client Needs.’ There are four major categories and eight subcategories. Many nursing courses go by the medical model where students take separate medical, surgical, paediatric, psychiatric, and obstetric classes. What differentiates the NCLEX-RN exam is that all of the content is integrated.