NCLEX words

National Council Licensure Examination: the US and Canadian licensing exams for nurses.

The national licensing exam that practical and vocational nurses (LPNs and LVNs) pass before they can work.

The National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses, the exam graduates must pass to be licensed as RNs.

An error or unsafe situation that was caught before it reached the client, so no harm was done.

Failure to use the care that a reasonably careful person would use in the same situation.

The version of the NCLEX exam, used since April 2023, built to measure clinical judgment with case studies and new question types.

The ethical principle of doing no harm to the client.

Ways of responding to a client that shut down open, honest talk instead of encouraging it.

Without words: communicated through facial expression, body language, touch, tone of voice or silence.

Sending messages without words, through facial expression, eye contact, posture, gestures, touch and tone of voice.

The usual feelings, thoughts and behaviors that follow a loss, such as a death.

To tell the person who prescribes the client's care about a finding, change or problem.

Nothing by mouth: an order that a client must not eat or drink anything.

A state's law that defines nursing practice, sets the scope of each type of nurse and creates the board of nursing.

A trained, certified worker without a nursing license who helps clients with daily care under a nurse's direction.

A nurse's judgment about a client's response to a health problem, which the nurse can treat within the nursing scope.

The step-by-step method nurses use to plan and give care: assess, diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate.