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National League for Nursing - Test Products
MATERNITY AND CHILD HEALTH NURSING
[090527]
Test Specifications (PDF)
Purpose: Assesses students' understanding of nursing care measures, with an emphasis on normal and abnormal physiological and psychosocial changes occurring during pregnancy and in childhood. Topics addressed include normal growth and development, deviations from expected developmental norms, and implications for nursing assessment, intervention, and teaching during the childbearing and child-rearing years. Incorporates relevant items on communication, nutrition, and pharmacology.
Format: 125-item, four-option, multiple-choice Twenty-five of these items are for experimental purposes and not included in the scoring. Available in online and paper formats.
Administration: Schedule after completion of course work in maternity and child health nursing.
Scoring: A total score and two subscores are provided.
Nursing Care During the Pregnancy Cycle: 43 items
Nursing Care of Children: 57 items
Normative data are based on the performance of students in RN programs.
NLN Member Price $15
Non-NLN Member Price $20
NURSING THE CHILDBEARING FAMILY
[860604]
Test Specifications (PDF)
Purpose: Assesses students' understanding of concepts basic to culturally competent nursing care of the childbearing family. Focuses on normal events of the childbearing experience, common health problems of mothers and infants, and intrapartal complications. Incorporates relevant items on communication, nutrition, and pharmacology.
Format: 125-item, four-option, multiple-choice. Twenty-five of these items are for experimental purposes and not included in the scoring. Available in online and paper formats.
Administration: Schedule after completion of course work in maternal-child nursing.
Scoring: A total score and three subscores are provided.
Antepartal Care: 36 items
Intrapartal and Postpartal Care: 34 items
Fetus and Newborn: 30 items
Normative data are based on the performance of students in RN programs.
NLN Member Price $15
Non-NLN Member Price $20
NURSING CARE OF ADULTS I
[I710104]
Test Specification (PDF)
Purpose: Assesses students' understanding of concepts basic to the care of adult clients and their families, including prevention and health promotion, early detection, care management, health maintenance and restoration, and psychosocial aspects of healthcare. Emphasis is on the nurse’s role in providing care to adults experiencing alterations in fluid and gas transport; metabolic, gastrointestinal, musculoskeletal and renal function; fluid and electrolyte imbalances; and pre- and postoperative care.
Format: 125-item, four-option, multiple-choice. Twenty-five of these items are for experimental purposes and not included in the scoring. Available in online and paper formats.
Administration: Schedule after completion of course work in adult health nursing, which includes health alterations as described in the test purpose above.
Scoring: A total score and three subscores are provided.
Acute Care: 51 items
Chronic Care: 28 items
Health Promotion: 21 items
Normative data are based on the perfomance of students in RN programs.
NLN Member Price $15
Non-NLN Member Price $20
NURSING CARE OF ADULTS II
[720204]
Test Specification (pdf)
Purpose: Assesses students' understanding of the application of the nursing process to the specific needs of the adult client for prevention and health promotion, early detection, care management, health maintenance and restoration, and psychosocial aspects of health care. Targets the nurse’s role in providing care to adults experiencing acute trauma; and cardiovascular, immune, neuro/sensory and respiratory alterations.
Format: 125-item, four-option, multiple-choice. Twenty-five of these items are for experimental purposes and not included in the scoring. Available in online and paper formats.
Administration: Schedule after completion of course work in adult health nursing, which includes health alterations as described in the test purpose above.
Scoring: A total score and three subscores are provided.
Acute Care: 49 items
Chronic Care: 30 items
Health Promotion: 21 items
Normative data are based on the perfomance of students in RN programs.
NLN Member Price $15
Non-NLN Member Price $20
PSYCHIATRIC MENTAL HEALTH NURSING
[060504]
Test Specifications (PDF)
Purpose: Assesses students' understanding of concepts related to mental health nursing. Principles of therapeutic communication and psychopharmacology are included. All questions are framed in the nursing process.
Format: 125-item, four-option, multiple-choice. Twenty-five items are for experimental purposes and not included in the scoring. Available in online and paper formats.
Administration: Schedule after completion of course work in a basic psychiatric course.
Scoring: A total score and two subscores are provided.
Assessing, Analyzing, and Evaluating: 53 items
Planning and Implementing: 47 items
Normative data are based on the perfomance of students in RN programs.
NLN Member Price $15
Non-NLN Member Price $20
ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY
[741204]
Test Specifications (PDF)
Purpose: Assesses students' understanding of the normal structure and physiology of the human body. Items focus on cellular metabolism and membrane physiology; major body systems (circulatory, respiratory, musculoskeletal, gastrointestinal, endocrine, urinary, immune, integumentary) and the heart; metabolism and temperature control; reproduction; and special areas.
Format: 125-item, four-option, multiple-choice. Twenty-five of these items are for experimental purposes and not included in the scoring. Available in online and paper formats.
Administration: Schedule after completion of course work in anatomy and physiology.
Scoring: A total score and two subscores are provided.
Anatomy: 38 items
Physiology: 62 items
Normative data are based on the perfomance of students in RN programs.
NLN Member Price $15
Non-NLN Member Price $20
MICROBIOLOGY
[751704]
Test Specifications (PDF)
Purpose: Assesses students' understanding of the basis processes, structure, and function of microorganisms causing communicable diseases, the body's immunological response to foreign substances, and the epidemiology of communicable diseases. Items address the basic cellular, structural and functional differences of microorganisms; the body's immunological responses to microorganisms; how communicable diseases are transmitted by microorganism; and methods of disease control.
Format: 125-item, four-option, multiple-choice. Twenty-five items are for experimental purposes and not included in the scoring. Available in online and paper formats.
Administration: Schedule after completion of course work in microbiology.
Scoring: A total score and three subscores are provided.
Microorganisms: 27 items
Immunology: 43 items
Epidemiology: 30 items
Normative data are based on the perfomance of students in RN programs.
NLN Member Price $15
Non-NLN Member Price $20
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