All 26 recent graduates from Bemidji State University’s nursing program who attempted the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX) for registered nurses this spring earned a passing score on their first attempt.<\/p>\n
BSU was one of two universities in Minnesota with a 100% pass rate for the year’s second quarter, with the other seeing each of its eight graduates pass the test on their first attempt.<\/p>\n
“This accomplishment reflects the hard work and dedication of our students, the expertise of our faculty and the invaluable support of clinical partners,” Nicholle Bieberdorf<\/a>, BSU’s senior nursing administrator, said. “Combined with our consistently strong outcomes over the past five years, these results demonstrate our ongoing commitment to preparing practice-ready nurses who will provide exceptional care to the communities they serve.”<\/p>\n The NCLEX-RN exam is a national standardized test that every state regulatory board uses to determine a candidate’s readiness for professional nursing practice in the United States. The exam assesses clinical judgment and decision-making through a variety of test item types and uses real-world case studies to measure a nurse’s ability to think critically and make correct decisions.<\/p>\n In the past five years combined, nearly 95% of BSU’s baccalaureate nursing graduates have passed the NCLEX on their first attempt. This is significantly higher than the statewide average of 86.3% and the national average of 88.4%.<\/p>\n “A strong NCLEX pass rate represents more than exam success; it demonstrates that our graduates are prepared to think critically, make sound clinical decisions and provide safe, compassionate care from their very first day as registered nurses,” Bieberdorf said.<\/p>\n BSU expects its final four spring 2026 nursing graduates to take the NCLEX during the third quarter, between July and September of this year.<\/p>\n Learn more about nursing at Bemidji State University<\/a>, then schedule a campus tour<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" All 26 spring grads who have taken the NCLEX exam passed on their first attempt; 1 of 2 MN schools with 100% success<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":50307,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1017,980,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nursing","category-strategic-plan","category-top-story"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50308,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50306\/revisions\/50308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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