National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN) Syllabus

National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN) covers 8 subjects: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care, Safe and Effective Care Environment: Safety and Infection Control, Health Promotion and Maintenance, Psychosocial Integrity, Physiological Integrity: Basic Care and Comfort, Physiological Integrity: Pharmacological and Parenteral Therapies, Physiological Integrity: Reduction of Risk Potential and Physiological Integrity: Physiological Adaptation. Together they contain 27 chapters and 111 named topics.

The full National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN) outline breaks down into 27 chapters, 111 topics and 126 sub-topics. Health Promotion and Maintenance is the largest single subject with 16 topics across 4 chapters.

Roughly 110 hours for one full pass. That estimate allows about 45 minutes per topic plus 12 minutes per sub-topic, so it is first-pass coverage — revision, past papers and mock tests sit on top of it. At 3 hours a day that is about 5 weeks.

Yes — 416 question-and-answer flashcards across 8 decks, one per subject, written against this syllabus. A sample of every deck is readable on this site for free, and the complete decks are in the Examius app.

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