NCLEX-PN Exam Content

NCLEX-PN (National Council Licensure EXamination-Practical Nurse). Passing the exam is required of candidates for licensure as a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) or Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN) by all US state and territorial Boards of Nursing.

Exam content
The majority of test items are written at the application or higher levels of cognition but the exam may include items at all of the cognitive levels.

The exam's content is based on client needs:

• Safe Effective Care Environment Coordinated Care Safety and Infection Control Health
• Promotion and Maintenance Psychosocial Integrity Physiological Integrity Basic Care and
• Comfort Pharmacological Therapies Reduction of Risk Potential Physiological Adaptation Psychiatric