Editorial policy

Who this content is for

We create NCLEX-RN study resources for nurses who were educated outside the United States. Our content explains exam processes and clinical concepts for learning purposes. It is not medical, legal or immigration advice, and it does not replace instructions from your board of nursing, NCSBN or Pearson VUE.

Originality

Every practice question, scenario, answer option and explanation on this site is written from scratch. We do not copy, paraphrase or adapt:

• questions or explanations from commercial question banks or review books;
• questions recalled from a live NCLEX examination, or "leaked" questions;
• NCSBN's protected documents, such as test plans or candidate materials, beyond brief factual references with links.

Each question carries a provenance record (the source pack used, excluded-source controls and the drafting process), and its stem is checked for similarity against publicly available text before review.

Sources

Clinical explanations cite current, authoritative references such as official drug labelling, national clinical guidance and open-licence nursing textbooks. Regulatory information, such as fees, eligibility, test centres and pass-rate statistics, is taken only from the official source (for example NCSBN, Pearson VUE, TruMerit (formerly CGFNS) or the relevant board of nursing) and shows the date we last verified it. When we cannot confirm something from an official source, we say so rather than guessing. All references are listed on our sources page.

Review before publication

• Fact check: every regulatory or statistical claim is recorded in a fact ledger with its source and verification date. A page cannot be published while any claim it relies on is unverified.
• Clinical review: every practice question is reviewed by our founder, an internationally educated nurse registered in the UK, before it is used. The questions are not independently reviewed by a US registered nurse. See the clinical review process.
• Versioning: if reviewed content is edited, it returns to review. The reviewed version and date are shown on the page.

How practice questions are written (clean room)

1. Concept first. We decide what a question should assess before any wording is written.
2. Source pack. We gather evidence for that concept from official and open clinical sources only, such as drug labels, CDC and NIH guidance, open-licence textbooks and regulator guidance.
3. Independent drafting. The scenario, question, options and explanations are written from that source pack. Drafting may be assisted by AI tools under the same rules.
4. Excluded sources. No commercial question bank, review book, recalled exam question, NCSBN confidential material or notes derived from them may be consulted. People currently using commercial question banks for their own study do not draft or supply wording.
5. Similarity check and founder review. Originality rests on the documented clean-room process and an external similarity check, not on the reviewer. Every step is recorded against the question's version.

Use of AI tools

AI tools may help draft guides and practice questions. A named human is responsible for every published guide. Every question is approved by our founder before it is used, and no question is used without that review. AI tools are never used to reproduce or rewrite third-party questions.

What we will never claim

We are not affiliated with NCSBN. We do not guarantee that anyone will pass, we do not publish "real" or "recalled" NCLEX questions, and we do not make pass-rate improvement claims.

Updates and corrections

Regulatory facts are re-verified at least every three months and whenever an official source changes. If you find an error, contact us through the contact page. We review every report, correct confirmed errors promptly and update the "last reviewed" date.