NSG 298 Unit 6 readiness self-audit example

Results by Category With the Count Beside Every Percentage: A Readiness Self-Audit After Eight Weeks, Including What the Numbers Cannot Yet Show

Student Name

Department of Nursing, Herzing University

NSG 298: Review of Nursing Concepts

Instructor Name

February 19, 2026

Results by Category With the Count Beside Every Percentage: A Readiness Self-Audit After Eight Weeks, Including What the Numbers Cannot Yet Show

Results by Category

Categories follow the licensure test plan's client-needs subcategories (National Council of State Boards of Nursing [NCSBN], 2023). The first columns repeat the Unit 5 map; the last two report the three weeks since. Categories marked FEW have fewer than 20 items in the recent period and are not ranked.

How the Audit Was Checked

The recent counts come from the platform's history report for weeks 6 to 8, exported on the last day of week 8, with abandoned items excluded as in Unit 5. Maternal-newborn and pediatric items are tagged by the platform within the client-needs categories, so they are counted twice: once in their category and once in their tag row. The tag rows are reported separately because Unit 5 identified them as empty cells, and the purpose of this audit is partly to show whether those cells have been filled. Totals across categories therefore do not equal the sum of every row. My instructor reviewed the export against my table and found one transcription error, in Reduction of Risk Potential, which has been corrected.

What the Changes Can and Cannot Support

The pharmacology improvement, from 66% to 77% on 47 items, is the largest and most likely to be real. It followed the change to carrying units on every line and to asking what risk a drug carries before choosing the familiar check, the two habits identified in Units 2 and 3. Physiological Adaptation rose by a smaller amount on 40 items, which could be partly chance.

Psychosocial Integrity fell, from 78% on 9 items to 71% on 24. The earlier figure was too thin to trust, so this is better described as the first reliable measure of that category rather than as a decline. Maternal-newborn and pediatric items, never attempted before, are now measured and both sit in the mid-60s. These are the two lowest categories with enough items.

Nothing here predicts the licensure result. Practice scores and standardized readiness tests are associated with passing in studies of nursing students, but the associations are imperfect and vary by program and test (Simon et al., 2013). The audit reports how I am doing on practice items, not whether I will pass.

Patterns Across Categories

Of the three error patterns named in Unit 5, one appears to have weakened: dropped units in calculations, with one calculation error in 12 items since the change. The second, reading past qualifiers, still appears, in 6 of the 31 recent misses. The third, placing assessment before a protective action, appeared in 4 recent misses, all in Physiological Adaptation and maternal-newborn items. A new pattern appeared in the maternal-newborn set: I treated normal postpartum findings as abnormal twice, which fits a lack of exposure rather than a reasoning habit.

What Would Change the Readiness Statement

The statement would move toward readiness if, over the next four weeks, the two newly measured areas rose above 70% on at least 30 more items each, and if the qualifier error fell to one or two of every thirty misses. It would move the other way if the pharmacology improvement did not hold on a fresh set of items, which would suggest the earlier gain came from repeated exposure to similar questions rather than from a changed habit. Stating these conditions now keeps the next audit from being written to fit whatever the numbers turn out to be.

Readiness Statement

On the evidence of eight weeks: steady in management of care, safety, and basic care; improving but not yet steady in pharmacology and physiological adaptation; newly measured and below my other categories in maternal-newborn and pediatric content; and still prone to reading past qualifiers. That is not a statement that I am ready. It is a statement of where the next four weeks of practice should go, which the study plan in Unit 7 derives from these findings. Practice will stay mixed across categories rather than blocked by topic, since interleaved practice supports retention (Dunlosky et al., 2013).

References

Dunlosky, J., Rawson, K. A., Marsh, E. J., Nathan, M. J., & Willingham, D. T. (2013). Improving students' learning with effective learning techniques: Promising directions from cognitive and educational psychology. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 14(1), 4-58. https://doi.org/10.1177/1529100612453266

National Council of State Boards of Nursing. (2023). 2023 NCLEX-RN test plan.

Simon, E. B., McGinniss, S. P., & Krauss, B. J. (2013). Predictor variables for NCLEX-RN readiness exam performance. Nursing Education Perspectives, 34(1), 18-24. https://doi.org/10.5480/1536-5026-34.1.18