Item Writing for Nurse Educators

Vicki Moran is an associate professor of nursing at Trudy Busch Valentine School of Nursing at St. Louis University, USA.  Dr. Moran has been a nurse educator for 20 years teaching a variety of didactic and clinicals courses.  She completed by BSN in 1994, a joint Masters in Public Health and Nursing (MSN/MPH) in 1997, and her doctoral in philosophy (PhD) in higher education administration in 2015.  Her clinical background has been trauma and critical care and her research interests focus on nursing education and trauma.  She has written books related to nursing education, book chapters focusing on pharmacology, and has published manuscripts related to her research interests.

• 1.  Item Writing basics.- 2.  Levelling item writing to Blooms taxonomy.- 3.  Blueprinting.- 4.  Case studies.- 5.  Item and Exam analysis.- 6. Mapping.