Report cards: a preparation strategy for NCLEX-RN

Helping students to prepare for NCLEX-RN is a challenge for educators. One school designed a report card method that motivated the students to become involved in their own review. This strategy allowed the student to mastermind a plan with just a little help from a faculty advisor. The overall student compliance rate with these strategies was 68%. The authors discuss the how-to's of the report card method and the resources needed. The authors believe the report card strategy was the major contributing factor to their school's drastic increase in NCLEX-RN scores.