NCLEX-RN

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The NCLEX-RN (National Council Licensure EXamination-Registered Nurse) is a computer-adaptive test of entry-level nursing competence. Passing the exam is required of candidates for licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN) by all US state and territorial Boards of Nursing.

The National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) develops and administers the examination.

Contents

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
  • Health Promotion and Maintenance
  • Psychosocial Integrity
  • Physiological Integrity
    • Basic Care and Comfort
    • Pharmacological and Parenteral Therapies
    • Reduction of Risk Potential
    • Physiological Adaptation

Most 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 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



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