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Free NCLEX practice questions with answers and rationales
540 free NCLEX-style practice questions in 27 topics, from prioritization, delegation and pharmacology to cardiac, SATA and NCLEX-PN, each with the answer and a full rationale.
🚦 Prioritization · 20 questionsABCs, Maslow, stable vs unstable, and acute vs chronic, the way the exam asks them.📋 Management of care · 20 questionsInformed consent, advance directives, confidentiality, client rights, medication errors, ethics and discharge planning, each with the answer and a…💊 Pharmacology · 20 questionsHigh-alert drugs, adverse effects, what to check before giving a dose, antidotes and client teaching, with the answer and the reasoning behind it.🧮 Dosage calculation · 20 questionsIV drip rates, weight-based and pediatric doses, mcg/kg/min infusions, insulin and unit conversions, each with the answer worked out.🧪 Lab values · 20 questionsHemoglobin and transfusions, kidney and liver function, drug levels, clotting tests, neutrophil and platelet counts, and what the nurse does about…🛡️ Safety & infection control · 20 questions20 free NCLEX-style questions on isolation precautions, PPE, falls, restraints, medication safety and emergency response, with the answer and a full…🤰 Maternity & newborn · 20 questionsPrenatal care, labor and fetal monitoring, preeclampsia, placenta previa, postpartum complications and newborn care, each with the answer and…🧸 Pediatrics · 20 questionsGrowth and development, dehydration, respiratory distress, heart defects, safety and poisoning, with answers and rationales.🧠 Mental health · 20 questionsSuicide risk, therapeutic communication, psychiatric medications, substance withdrawal and crisis care, with the answer and rationale.🫀 Med-surg · 20 questionsCardiac, respiratory, renal, endocrine and neuro care, complications to catch early and what to do first, with rationales.🩺 Fundamentals · 20 questionsAssessment, mobility, nutrition, elimination, comfort, skin integrity and health promotion, each with the answer and rationale.☑️ Select all that apply (SATA) · 20 questionsEvery client-needs area, in the format the Next Generation NCLEX scores plus/minus.🤝 Delegation · 20 questionsThe Five Rights, what the RN can never hand off, and which tasks go to the LPN/LVN or to assistive personnel, each with the answer and rationale.💬 Therapeutic communication · 20 questionsOpen-ended responses, reflecting feelings, and the blocks the exam marks wrong, like why questions and false reassurance, with full rationales.🧤 Infection control · 20 questionsContact, droplet and airborne precautions, PPE, sterile versus clean technique and breaking the chain of infection, each with the answer and…❤️ Cardiac · 20 questionsMyocardial infarction, heart failure, digoxin and beta-blocker hold parameters, DVT and pulmonary embolism, with the answer and rationale.🫁 Respiratory · 20 questionsCOPD, chest tubes, oxygen devices, ABG interpretation and pediatric airway emergencies, each with the answer and a full rationale.⚡ Neuro & emergencies · 20 questionsStroke windows, rising intracranial pressure, autonomic dysreflexia and the other emergencies the nurse must catch first, with the answer and…🩸 Endocrine & diabetes · 20 questionsInsulin peaks, hypoglycemia, DKA versus HHS, thyroid and adrenal crises and the water hormones, each with the answer and rationale.💧 Fluids & electrolytes · 20 questionsPotassium, sodium, calcium and magnesium imbalances, IV fluid choices, potassium safety rules and blood transfusions, with rationales.⚖️ Legal & ethical · 20 questionsAutonomy, beneficence and the other principles the exam names, negligence, malpractice, assault, battery and false imprisonment, with rationales.🏥 Perioperative care · 20 questionsThe pre-op checklist, post-op complications day by day, procedure prep and aftercare, compartment syndrome and fat embolism, with rationales.👵 Gerontology · 20 questionsNormal aging changes versus the findings you must never call normal, like new confusion or a sudden fall, each with the answer and rationale.🔤 Drug classes & suffixes · 20 questionsDrug suffixes (-olol, -pril, -sartan, -statin and more), the side effect that defines each class, and the nursing action that follows.🌀 Psych meds & withdrawal · 20 questionsLithium, SSRIs, MAOIs and the emergencies they cause, plus alcohol and benzodiazepine withdrawal and which withdrawal can kill.🥗 Nutrition & tube feeding · 20 questionsTherapeutic diets you must not mix up, NG tube placement, enteral feeds and aspiration prevention, each with the answer and rationale.🎓 NCLEX-PN · 20 questionsPN-scope questions for LPN/LVN candidates across the 2026 NCLEX-PN test plan, each with the answer and rationale.
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