Standards · Editorial policy
How we write, check, and correct every guide.
Nursing content shapes how future nurses think about real patients. This page explains how NurseCaseLab chooses topics, sources its claims, reviews and dates its content, handles commercial links, and fixes mistakes.
Editorial cycle
Our standard is simple. A student should be able to trust a NurseCaseLab guide without buying anything, check every factual claim against its source, and tell exactly when the page was last reviewed.
01 / Topics
How we choose topics.
We write about questions nursing students and new nurses actually ask, in simulation, clinicals, exam prep, and career planning. A topic earns a guide when we can answer it usefully and accurately with a worked case and verifiable sources. We don't publish thin pages written only to rank in search.
02 / Sources
Sourcing standards.
Every factual claim must trace to a source a reader can check. We prefer primary sources, in roughly this order:
- NCLEX & licensure
- NCSBN, state boards of nursing, the Nurse Licensure Compact
- Pay & employment
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (OEWS and Occupational Outlook Handbook)
- Specialties & certification
- Certifying bodies and professional nursing organizations
- Education & accreditation
- AACN, ACEN, CCNE, NLN
- Simulation platforms
- The vendor's own documentation and public pages
- Clinical concepts
- Peer-reviewed literature, clinical guidelines, and government health agencies
We don't invent details about third-party products, such as case names, scenario steps, or scoring rules. If we can't confirm a detail from a public source, we leave it out. Sources are listed at the end of each article.
03 / Review
Writing & review.
Guides are researched and written by the NurseCaseLab Editorial Team. Before publication, each guide is checked claim by claim against its listed sources, read for clinical safety (no advice that could reasonably be applied to a real patient without supervision), and reviewed for scope (we explain how to reason; we don't stand in for a student's own coursework).
We use software tools, including AI writing assistants, to help with research and drafting. A human editor is responsible for every published page, and no claim is published unless it's verified against a source.
We're building a panel of licensed nurses and nurse educators to review our clinical content. When a licensed nurse reviews a guide, we'll name them and their credentials on the page. Until a guide carries a named reviewer, it's credited to the Editorial Team. Interested in reviewing? Email hello@nursecaselab.com.
04 / Freshness
Dates & updates.
- Published date is when the guide first went live.
- Updated date appears when we make a substantive change, such as new facts, new sources, or a corrected claim. Typo fixes don't change the date.
- Time-sensitive data, such as salaries, licensure rules, and exam details, is rechecked against its source whenever the guide is updated, and at least once a year.
05 / Disclosure
Commercial links.
NurseCaseLab and NursingProxy are related learning properties. A guide may include one clearly labeled link to a relevant NursingProxy resource, placed after the guide has fully answered the reader's question. Each such link carries a relationship disclosure where it appears.
- Commercial relationships never decide what we cover or what a guide concludes.
- Every guide must be useful on its own, without any purchase.
- We don't accept paid placements, sponsored rankings, or payment for coverage.
- We aren't affiliated with the simulation vendors, exam bodies, or schools we write about unless a page says so.
06 / Corrections
Corrections.
If you find an error, email hello@nursecaselab.com with "Correction" in the subject line, the page URL, and, where possible, a source. We review every report. When we confirm an error that affects meaning, we fix it, update the page's date, and add a short correction note to the article.
07 / Limits
The limits of our content.
NurseCaseLab is educational content. It isn't medical advice, legal advice, or a substitute for your nursing program's instruction, your clinical instructors, your facility's policies, or your state board of nursing. Follow your program's academic integrity policy whenever you use any study resource, including this one.