Strategies for Student Success on the Next Generation NCLEX® (NGN) Test Items

About Angela SilvestriDonna D. IgnataviciusLinda Anne Silvestri

Linda Anne Silvestri has provided decades of nursing education and leadership that has directly impacted the growing and needed nursing workforce. Her research focused on a holistic investigation of predictors leading to success on the licensure examination. Her findings published in the Journal of Nursing Education and Practice led to significant contributions filling a critical need in NCLEX® preparation. Linda's vision was to provide a holistic educational approach to ensure overall well-being in test anxiety and self-efficacy and success on the NCLEX®. As a leader in providing global NCLEX® preparation resources published by Elsevier she strives for excellence in publication quality based on the discovery of new knowledge in nursing standards of care and research-based studies. Her published resources ensure nursing graduates' ability to make sound clinical judgments as they serve the public and the nursing profession. Linda is also a Next Generation NCLEX® Subject Matter Expert and Consultant for Elsevier. Angela Silvestri is a well-known nurse educator researcher and author. She has been teaching and working in university administrative roles for the past 10 years at all levels of nursing education. She has experience teaching across the program and in classroom and clinical settings in the areas of Nutrition and Human Development Across the Lifespan Foundations of Care in Nursing Gerontological Nursing Complex Care in Nursing and Leadership and Transition to Practice in pre-nursing and undergraduate nursing programs. She is currently serving as the Program Director for the undergraduate BSN program at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. She is a sought-out speaker at national conferences on the topic of nursing school success. Her passion for college student success comes through in her work at the School of Nursing teaching Leadership and licensure exam preparation and in publishing research and best-selling licensure exam review resources on national and international levels. Donna Ignatavicius is nationally recognized as an expert in nursing education and medical-surgical/gerontological nursing and has a wealth of experiences as a nurse educator clinical nurse specialist and administrator for over 40 years. Currently she provides curriculum consultation and presentations for nursing faculty on topics such as concept-based curriculum assessment of learning methods and active learning strategies through her consulting company DI Associates Inc. Additionally she is the primary author of numerous articles and books including Medical-Surgical Nursing: Concepts for Interprofessional Collaborative Care 11th ed. (2024) and her new student workbooks Developing Clinical Judgment for Professional Nursing and the Next-Generation NCLEX-RN® Examination and Developing Clinical Judgment for Practical/Vocational Nursing and the Next-Generation NCLEX-PN® Examination. In 2007 she was inducted as a fellow into the prestigious Academy of Nursing Education (ANEF) for her national contribution to the field of nursing education. In 2016 she obtained her Certified Nurse Educator® (CNE) credential; in 2020 she obtained her Academic Clinical Nurse Educator (CNEcl) credential.