Dr. Lynne Shores, associate professor of nursing, was approved by the Tennessee Board of Nursing and selected by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) to participate on the Licensure Examination item development panel of subject matter experts that was held in Chicago, Ill., Oct. 24-27.
NCSBN, headquartered in Chicago, is responsible for developing and administering the NCLEX-RN and NCLEX-PN licensing examinations. Shores, one of 15 nurses from across the nation to be selected for this assignment, was nominated on the basis of clinical specialty and nursing expertise. All nurses in the United States and its four U.S. territories must take the NCLEX.
