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Board votes to join NCSBN prelicensure annual report program to get standardized nursing‑education data
Summary
After a staff presentation and questions, the Board of Registered Nursing voted to join the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) prelicensure annual report program, which collects standardized program‑level quality indicators and demographic data at no cost to participating boards.
The California Board of Registered Nursing voted May 28 to join the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) prelicensure annual report core data survey and participate in its dashboard of standardized education indicators.
Nancy Spector of NCSBN presented the program’s scope and benefits to the board, saying the survey comprises 50 core questions and yields national aggregate dashboards and quality indicators that boards and educators can use for benchmarking. “We put on our website the aggregate data,” Spector said. She described measures such as percent full‑time faculty, director turnover and multi‑year NCLEX trends as evidence‑based quality indicators that states and programs can use for planning and improvement.
Board members asked about cost and staff workload. Spector said NCSBN participation carries no membership fee for boards; the data collection runs through Qualtrics and NCSBN cleans and verifies the data. Lisonbee Cormack asked whether participation would duplicate California’s current contract with UCSF for RN survey work; Spector said the two efforts are complementary and that boards can add approved supplemental questions if they wish.
Board member David Lawler moved to authorize BRN participation in the NCSBN program with the caveat that California retain its existing UCSF arrangement; the motion passed unanimously.
Why it matters: standardized, multi‑state education data can help regulators, educators and legislators identify capacity constraints, faculty shortages and program trends. Several board members said they expect the information to help with planning and occasional legislative requests for resources.
The program timeline: Spector said boards often receive their first validated state‑level indicators about three weeks after the programs validate their submissions, but the total time depends on how quickly individual programs verify their data to NCSBN.
