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; mainly, memorization or recalling, knowledge, analysis and application.
The exam's content is based on client needs:
- Safe Effective Care Environment Management of Care Safety and Infection Control Health
- Promotion and Maintenance Psychosocial Integrity Physiological Integrity Basic Care and
- Comfort Pharmacological and Parenteral Therapies Reduction of Risk Potential
- Physiological Adaptation [edit] Question typesMost of the questions of the NCLEX-RN exam are worded multiple choice questions. In recent years, however, the Boards of Nursing have added broader questions that don't involve multiples choices. For example, some questions:
- Require identifying and selecting a particular area of a drawn body part pertaining to the question
- Involve selecting multiple correct answers (via check box)
- Calculating an answer for a mathematical question (usually for medication dosages) and inputting the answer
- Arranging according to order a certain medical or nursing procedure (e.g. how to don sterile gloves or how to do a guiac test)
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