The National Council of State Boards of Nursing published the 2021 NCLEX statistics noting a significant downward trend in the first-time pass rates for associate degree in nursing programs over the last 2 years. One program's 2020-2021 NCLEX-RN results for first-time testers fell below the state-required 80% at 68.09% (32 out of 47 students). In this podcast Dr. Kaitlin Cobourne presents curriculum strategies that resulted in dramatic improvement in first-time NCLEX pass rates in their ADN program.