Inpatient psychiatric unit
Department · Inpatient psychiatric unit
A timed practice exam of 50 NCLEX-RN-style questions for inpatient psychiatric nursing: therapeutic communication, client rights and restraint rules, suicide risk, mania, anxiety, psychosis and delirium, eating disorders, substance withdrawal, and psychotropic drug safety including lithium and antipsychotics, with two case studies and full rationales. It is a study aid, not a prediction of any exam result. NCLEX and NCLEX-RN are registered trademarks of the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN), which is not affiliated with HoneNURSE. For education only. Not clinical advice.
What it covers
How many questions come from each client need and topic. Questions and answers are shown only in your report, after you finish.
| Client need | Questions |
|---|---|
| Pharmacological and Parenteral Therapies | 13 |
| Physiological Adaptation | 12 |
| Psychosocial Integrity | 10 |
| Management of Care | 5 |
| Safety and Infection Control | 4 |
| Basic Care and Comfort | 2 |
| Health Promotion and Maintenance | 2 |
| Reduction of Risk Potential | 2 |
| Topic | Questions |
|---|---|
| Antipsychotics | 5 |
| Legal and ethical issues, client rights, restraint and seclusion | 4 |
| Substance use, intoxication, overdose and withdrawal | 4 |
| Schizophrenia, psychosis and delirium | 4 |
| Bipolar disorder and mania | 3 |
| Personality disorders and eating disorders | 3 |
| Depression and suicide risk | 3 |
| Trauma, abuse and violence, with child and adolescent disorders | 3 |
| Antidepressants | 3 |
| Benzodiazepines and alcohol withdrawal | 3 |
| Dose calculations for pain, seizure and psychiatric drugs | 3 |
| Lithium | 3 |
| Anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder | 3 |
| Stress, coping, defense mechanisms and crisis | 3 |
| Therapeutic communication and the nurse-client relationship | 3 |
How the exam works
- One question per screen. Once you move on, you cannot go back to an earlier question.
- You have 65 minutes. The timer starts when the exam opens and keeps running, even if you leave the page. When time runs out, the exam is submitted with the answers you have saved.
- Your answer is saved after every question, so you can resume where you stopped if your connection drops.
- The exam opens in full screen. Leaving full screen is recorded and the timer keeps running.
- If focus leaves the exam, for example to another tab or window, you see a warning and it is recorded. Warnings do not end this exam.
- Copying, pasting, printing and right-click are turned off during the exam.
The exam needs a laptop or desktop computer with a window at least 1024 pixels wide.
Your report
When you finish, the report shows your score, the time you used, a breakdown by client need and topic, and every question with your answer, the correct answer and the rationale.
The readiness band is a study aid based on this exam only. It does not predict your real result.