nclex pn, will it cover med surg?

[northmississippi]

I was looking at the test breakdown of content, at it seems that its will not cover med surg topics much, its says

The exam's content is based on client needs:

• Safe Effective Care Environment
  
  • Management of Care
    
  • Safety and Infection Control
    

  [*]Health Promotion and Maintenance

  [*]Psychosocial Integrity

  [*]Physiological Integrity

  • Basic Care and Comfort
    
  • Pharmacological and Parenteral Therapies
    
  • Reduction of Risk Potential
    
  • Physiological Adaptation
    

I remember my prep-u software had a part for client needs, which covered this, then it had a med surg topics section like cancer, cardi...

so what do you think about the test having deep discussion on med surg?

[Nienna Celebrindal]

It covers everything. Everything. When I took it i had a ton of OB questions.

[VanessaK83]

Yep. Everything.

[TheCommuter, BSN, RN]

I took NCLEX-PN in 2005 and the NCLEX-RN in 2010. You are going to receive a mix of questions from all specialties: med/surg, OB, pediatrics, psychiatric & mental health, and so forth. Everything is fair game.

For instance, the "physiological integrity" category is going to have med/surg questions similar to this: The orthopedic nurse has just received report; which patient should he see first?

a) The 85 year-old male who underwent a left hip ORIF surgical procedure 48 hours ago whose oxygen saturation level is 79 percent on room air

b) The 39 year-old female who was admitted to the floor 72 hours ago with a left below-the-knee amputation secondary to poorly controlled type 1 diabetes

c) The 62 year-old female who was admitted to the floor 12 hours ago after undergoing a right side rotator cuff repair surgery

d) The 18 year-old male who was admitted two hours ago from the ER for overnight observation after an exacerbation of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis

[Nibbles1]

I had tons of legal questions and safety questions. I had drugs that I never heard of before. My test had a lot of select all that apply. I studied 500 questions per day for 6 weeks to my test date. Oh yes, lots of pediatric questions too.

[DJAYS]

YES..the test has change since April 2014. There is a lot of sata to every topic.. drugs, OB, heart..most of the test is sata now. You have to know the topic from front to back.

[Nienna Celebrindal]

According to Kaplan its only 25% of less. From talking to my cohort and my experience it seems more like 25-50%. Granted that was for the RN but I don't think they are really different.

Expect some drug equations are well, although somehow I lucked out on my RN and didn't have any. I did for my LVN.