REVIEW OVERVIEW Prelicensure nursing student Madison Wetherell shares patient information during an immersive simulation lab exercise in 2019. During COVID lockdowns in 2020, nursing students who weren’t on campus and didn’t have access to the sim lab watched recordings of past exercises. By Lana Sweeten-Shults Amy Leach Amy Leach knows firsthand what COVID has demanded of Grand Canyon University’s nursing students, who were facing one of the most daunting challenges of their academic careers in the most stressful of times: conquering the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX) during a global pandemic. She has worked with students who took their practice exams remotely while their brother was in the next room on Zoom for his classes, their mom was at the dining room table working from home, and there was no way to find a quiet space at a coffee shop to take those exams, since so many businesses were closed during the pandemic.