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NCSBN Test Questions: Review: Michelle Hall June 2009

This document provides guidelines for writing NCLEX test questions. It recommends using specific nursing textbooks as references when writing questions. It emphasizes including both trade and generic drug names in medication questions. For newly prescribed medications, the client should be assumed to have never taken it before. Good questions have a clear stem, key, and distractors. Irrelevant information, gender, and offensive terminology should be avoided. Questions should be based on the 2007 NCSBN test plan and follow Bloom's taxonomy.

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NCSBN Test Questions: Review: Michelle Hall June 2009

This document provides guidelines for writing NCLEX test questions. It recommends using specific nursing textbooks as references when writing questions. It emphasizes including both trade and generic drug names in medication questions. For newly prescribed medications, the client should be assumed to have never taken it before. Good questions have a clear stem, key, and distractors. Irrelevant information, gender, and offensive terminology should be avoided. Questions should be based on the 2007 NCSBN test plan and follow Bloom's taxonomy.

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NCSBN test questions

Review: Michelle Hall June 2009


Textbooks
Potter & Perry 2009- Clinical Nursing Skills and
Techniques
Kozier 08-Fundamentals of Nursing 7/e &
Techniques in Clinical Nursing 5/e
Ignataviscius 2010- Medical Surgical Nursing
***** This book was used A lot to write questions
and to check for accuracy of information.
Smelton 08-
Black 08
Edelman& Mandle- Health Promotion
Medications
Make sure to include the Trade and
Generic Name in all questions. The
NCLEX uses both because different areas
different names for Trade medications
Questions saying “newly prescribed” you
should assume the client has NEVER
taken the medication before, so look for
possible contraindications for
adminstration.
Writing a test questions
Terms to know
◦ Stem- is the question itself or what you are
asking of the reader
◦ Key-is the answer you are looking for
◦ Distracter- is used to distract the student away
from the correct answer and to make them
THINK.
 Need to be realistic and plausible

◦ Central idea- is identified in the question


Basic Do’s and Don’ts of writing
Do not use a patients age, in the question
Avoid irrelevant information
Do not use except
Do not use gender
Reread the question to see if anything stands
out or hints what the correct answer might be
◦ Do not write a question with answers that start
with the same letter in 3 out of 4 answer example
 3 answers that start with the letter C and one that starts
with the letter A.
Basic Do’s and Don'ts Continue
Nclex uses Blooms Taxonomy for writing all test
questions.
Patients who have acute disease, write t he question
like this “client who has_____ presented as.”
Patients who have chronic disease write the
questions as follows “client with________presented
to the ER as.”
Do not use any terminology that could offend a test
taker in any way, such as using a women has, or an
older gentlemen has, or a Arabic patient has.
Test Plan
All Test questions come from the 2007
Test Plan set up by the NCSBN.

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