ACE II RN-BSN MOBILITY EXAM

The University of New Mexico offers registered nurses (RNs) an opportunity to earn credit toward the BSN degree by passing the NLN Acceleration Challenge Exam (ACE) II-RN to BSN. Although you may take the ACE II before you are admitted to the University of New Mexico, you must be accepted and enrolled in the RN to BSN degree completion option in order to receive the credit. If you take the tests after admission to the College of Nursing, you must do so by the time you have completed two terms of enrollment in upper division nursing courses.
National League for Nursing (NLN ) ACE II-RN to BSN
The NLN Nursing Acceleration Challenge Exams (ACE) II are national validation tests designed to evaluate previous learning in order to facilitate educational mobility of RN to BSN students. The ACE II was normed on baccalaureate nursing students, with the cutoff score for passing determined by individual schools.
Integrated throughout each of the tests are questions about nutrition, pharmacology, patient teaching, and interpersonal relations. Questions are presented in case situations and are written in the framework of the nursing process. At the University of New Mexico, RNs can receive 34 credits toward the BSN degree through successful completion of three test books, as described below:
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Book One: Care of the Adult Client
Assesses knowledge of the nursing care of adult clients with a variety of common health problems. Applicable to various practice settings.
219-item, four-option, multiple-choice.
Administered in 3½ hours.
Any current medical-surgical text can be used for preparation.

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Book Two: Care of the Client during Childbearing; Care of the Child
Part One (Nursing Care During Childbearing) assesses knowledge of the nursing care of clients during the antepartal, intrapartal, and postpartal periods. Emphasis is on the normal, although some common complications are included.
Part Two (Nursing Care of the Child) addresses the nursing care of children and adolescents in various stages of health and illness.
203-item (Part One: 103 items; Part Two: 100 items), four-option, multiple-choice.
Administered in 3½ hours.
Any current maternity and pediatric texts can be used for preparation.

DATES, CONTACTS, COSTS

ACE II exam

July 24-25, 2008--must register with Jeri Belsher by June 27th

The cost is around $175.00.

HOW TO CONTACT JERI BELSHER:
Email: JBelsher@salud.unm.edu

This exam is to be completed before students finish their second term
of courses in the RN/BSN program. Attached is a document explainingthe exam and a study guide for the students.

WHAT'S ON THE TEST

Several topics can be found here of sample ACE II content.