Welcome to the Assessment Clearinghouse of Nursing Programs

Preparing nurses to practice competently in today’s rapidly changing health care environment is indeed a challenge. It is crucial for educational institutions that teach nursing to provide evidence for their many constituents that nursing students are achieving learning outcomes that represent an expected level of competence.

Nursing programs are accountable for state licensure and most also achieve national accreditation. Sharing and adapting experiences and successful strategies along with results will assist collaborating nursing programs in the extensive commitment of time, personnel, and money devoted to assessment.

Data exchanges will also provide learning opportunities for nursing programs as well as evidence that allows a kind of comparative benchmarking. The clearinghouse approach offers an opportunity to improve assessment, which in turn, should lead to better learning outcomes.