Linder Writes for Exam

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 4, 2008

Dr. Mari Beth Linder
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Dr. J. Mari Beth Linder

JOPLIN, MO (SNS) - Joplin resident J. Mari Beth Linder, Ph.D., Head of the Nursing Department at Missouri Southern State University,  has been chosen to be an Item Writer for  the Foreign Nurses’ Exam.

 

Dr. Linder was chosen by The Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools (CGFNS International), an independent, not for profit organization created in 1977 by the American Nurses Association  and the National League for Nursing to identify those internationally educated nurses who have a high probability of passing the NCLEX-RN examination and attaining RN licensure in the US. 

 

Passing a qualifying exam is a requirement of foreign educated nurses seeking U.S. licensure. The CGFNS Qualifying Exam is given worldwide at approved testing centers three times per year. 

 

CGFNS updates its test item bank regularly, and item writers with experience in certain specialty areas of nursing are selected to write items to be included in new test banks. 
 
Dr. Linder was selected by CGFNS to write exam questions in the specialty of Pediatric Nursing, an area where she maintains clinical practice as an RN and has several peer reviewed publications.
 
Criteria for selection included having experience with item writing and test construction in nursing, an earned doctorate, board certification in pediatric nursing, and maintaining clinical practice and expertise in the specialty not related to nursing student supervision.
 
Dr. Linder has worked in the Nursing Department at Missouri Southern for nine years and was named Department Head two years ago. 
 
The Item Writing will take place March 31-April 4, 2008 in St. Kitts, West Indies.  Approximately 20 item writers were selected from across the US to participate.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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