HiddenWhat the exam is
NCLEX-RN is the licensing exam for registered nurses. It is computer-adaptive, so the questions you see depend on your earlier answers.
Regulator: NCSBN (National Council of State Boards of Nursing). Country: United States.
Who takes it
Nursing graduates, and nurses educated abroad, who apply to a state or provincial board that requires it. Each board issues the licence and sets its own other requirements.
Format, as the regulator publishes it
| Item | What the regulator says |
|---|---|
| Questions | Between 85 and 150 items [1] |
| Time | A five-hour period, with no time limit on each single item [1] |
Most items ask what the nurse should do first. Practise priority, delegation and safety reasoning, not facts alone.
How NurseSim covers it
NurseSim has no question tagged to this exam alone. The simulation draws on a shared pool of 4,354 registered-nurse questions, and offers 5 full-length mock exams that share no question.
Every answer comes with the reasoning behind it, and you can sit timed mock exams. Free: 5 questions a day, no card needed. NCLEX-RN is the name of an examination of NCSBN, which is not affiliated with this program and has not endorsed it.