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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.

Questions by client need
Client needQuestions
Pharmacological and Parenteral Therapies24
Physiological Adaptation24
Management of Care20
Reduction of Risk Potential17
Safety and Infection Control14
Psychosocial Integrity11
Basic Care and Comfort10
Health Promotion and Maintenance10
Questions by topic
TopicQuestions
Feeding, jaundice, low blood sugar and other newborn problems6
Screening, prevention and health teaching3
Pancreatitis and gallbladder disease3
Titration and weight-based infusions3
Trauma, bleeding and burns3
Muscles and joints, mobility, positioning, falls and hygiene2
Viruses II, hepatitis, HIV and HPV2
Anaphylaxis, poisoning, overdose and environmental emergencies2
Inflammation, fever, edema and sepsis2
Valve disease, endocarditis and pericarditis2
Substance use, intoxication, overdose and withdrawal2
Chemistry panels, kidney tests and blood glucose2
Safety goals and medication safety systems2
Sterile technique and device-related infections2
Transmission-based precautions and PPE2
Abdomen, urine, bowel function and intake and output1
Enteral nutrition and tube feeding1
Hip and knee replacement and amputation1
Skin, continence, nutrition and swallowing1
Skin, pressure injuries and wound care1
Spinal cord injury and autonomic dysreflexia1
Symptoms near the end of life1
Therapeutic and texture-modified diets1
Growth, development and milestones from birth to adolescence1
Immunization and communicable disease control1
Life stages, food safety and food allergies1
Newborn assessment, first care and safe sleep1
Prenatal care and pregnancy danger signs1
Vaccines and common childhood infections1
Advance care planning, ethics, grief and after-death care1
Assignment, staffing and unsafe situations1
Boards of nursing, nurse practice acts and scope of practice1
Change in health care1
Consent, advance directives and client rights1
Documentation, SBAR and handoff1
Ethical principles and the nursing code of ethics1
Ethical problems in practice1
Health care systems, insurance and access1
Informed consent, capacity and advance directives1
Law basics, negligence and the standard of care1
Legal and ethical issues, client rights, restraint and seclusion1
Mandatory reporting, impaired colleagues and workplace violence1
Prioritizing within one client's care1
Quality improvement and patient safety1
Quality, risk and event reporting1
Ranking a client list1
Teamwork, conflict, chain of command and delegation1
The five rights of delegation in practice1
Triage and the Emergency Severity Index1
Antiarrhythmic drugs1
Anticoagulants1
Anticonvulsants1
Antidepressants1
Antifungals1
Antipsychotics1
Antivirals1
Benzodiazepines and alcohol withdrawal1
Beta blockers and calcium channel blockers1
Children, rounding and the safety checks1
Diabetes basics and insulin types1
Diuretics1
Fluid volume deficit and fluid volume excess1
IV rates, intake and output, and fluid math1
Insulin and other unit-based doses1
Macrolides, tetracyclines, fluoroquinolones, sulfonamides, clindamycin and metronidazole1
Opioids and naloxone1
Other blood pressure drugs and hypertensive emergency1
SGLT2 inhibitors, GLP-1 drugs and other injectables1
Thyroid drugs1
Acute kidney injury and chronic kidney disease1
Adrenal and pituitary disorders1
Blood and cancer in children: anemia, sickle cell disease, hemophilia and leukemia1
Fetal heart rate monitoring in words1
Fractures, compartment syndrome and fat embolism1
Gram-negative bacteria1
Heart rhythms, pacemakers and cardiac arrest1
Mechanical ventilation and ARDS1
Seizures and status epilepticus1
The lungs and oxygen1
Thyroid and parathyroid disorders1
Anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder1
Depression and suicide risk1
Palliative care and hospice1
Personality disorders and eating disorders1
Schizophrenia, psychosis and delirium1
Stress, coping, defense mechanisms and crisis1
Therapeutic communication and the nurse-client relationship1
Trauma, abuse and violence, with child and adolescent disorders1
Anesthesia and its complications1
Blood pressure, orthostatic readings and pain assessment1
Breathing and circulation after surgery1
Clotting tests and blood thinner monitoring1
Drug levels1
Getting the client ready1
Head injury and increased pressure in the skull1
Heart and lung tests1
Imaging and procedures: preparing the client and watching afterward1
Liver and pancreas tests1
Reading arterial blood gases step by step1
Urine, cultures and infection tests1
Client safety: falls, identification, communication and suicide risk1
Emergency preparedness, disasters and triage1
Fire, electrical, radiation and hazardous drug safety1
Precautions by organism1
Protecting yourself: sharps, bloodborne pathogens and staff safety1
Restraints and seclusion1
Standard precautions and hand hygiene1

How the exam works

  • One question per screen. Once you move on, you cannot go back to an earlier question.
  • You have 210 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. In this exam, the third warning submits the 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.