What Information does the NCLEX Cover?

What Information does the NCLEX Cover?

There are four main content categories covered on both NCLEX exams:

• Safe and Effective Care Environment:
  • Accident Prevention
  • Ethics
  • Client Rights
  • Home Safety
• Health Promotion and Maintenance:
  • Prevention of Future Health Problems
  • Growth & Development Principles
  • Aging Process
  • Newborn Care
  • Lifestyle Choices
  • Developmental Stages
• Psychosocial Integrity:
  • Mental Illness
  • Emotional Factors
  • Social Factors
  • Mental Factors
• Physiological Integrity:
  • Physical Wellness Promotion
  • Risk Management
  • Therapeutic Procedures
  • Abnormal Responses to Therapy

NCLEX examinations are administrated adaptively in variable length formats specific to each candidate. To accommodate possible variations in examination length, content area distributions of the individual examinations may differ up to ±3% in each category