NCLEX-PN/LPN Core Review

  • 32 lessons
  • 8 modules
  • 7h 22m of reading
  • intermediate
NCLEX-PN/LPN Core Review

Built around the current NCLEX-PN test plan’s eight Client Needs categories — not a thinned-out version of an RN course. Includes a full module on scope of practice and delegation from the LPN’s side, because most prep products treat PN candidates as an afterthought. Plain-English lessons, a real citation behind every clinical fact, and zero pass-rate promises.

How the NCLEX-PN Works

  • Your Test Plan, in Plain English
  • The Next Generation NCLEX — New Item Types and How They Are Scored
  • Case Studies and the Six Steps of Clinical Judgment

Scope of Practice and Delegation — The LPN's Side

  • Assignment vs. Delegation — the Distinction Test-Takers Get Wrong
  • The Five Rights of Delegation — from the Receiving End
  • Delegating to Unlicensed Assistive Personnel — the Judgment Call
  • Scope Varies by State — Why That Caution Matters on Test Day

Coordinated Care and Prioritization

  • Prioritization Frameworks: ABCs, Safety First, and Maslow
  • Data Collection vs. Assessment — What Is Actually Yours to Do
  • Case Management, Referrals, and Keeping Care Coordinated
  • Legal and Ethical Practice for the LPN

Safety and Infection Prevention and Control

  • Standard Precautions — the Foundation for Every Patient
  • Transmission-Based Precautions: Contact, Droplet, Airborne
  • Preventing Falls, Errors, and Other Safety Hazards
  • Emergency Response and Prioritization Under Pressure

Fluid, Electrolyte, and Acid-Base Balance

  • Reading Lab Values Like a Nurse, Not Like a Chart
  • Acid-Base Balance: a Framework You Can Actually Use
  • Sodium and Potassium — Signs, Symptoms, and What Changes on the Monitor
  • Calcium and Magnesium — Signs, Symptoms, and the Rescue Drug They Share

Pharmacology by Class

  • Anticoagulants — Heparin, Warfarin, and the Newer Oral Agents
  • High-Alert Cardiac and Psychiatric Drugs — Digoxin and Lithium
  • Sedation, Opioids, and Their Reversal Agents
  • Antibiotics That Need Extra Monitoring — Vancomycin and Aminoglycosides
  • Insulin — Types, Onset, Peak, and Duration

Maternal-Newborn Care

  • The Apgar Score — What It Is, and What It Is Not
  • Preeclampsia, Eclampsia, and HELLP Syndrome
  • Postpartum Hemorrhage — the 4 T's
  • Fetal Heart Rate Patterns for the LPN

Psychosocial Integrity

  • Therapeutic Communication for the LPN
  • Recognizing Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome vs. Serotonin Syndrome
  • Substance Use and Withdrawal — Staying Safety-Focused
  • Supporting Patients Through Loss and Chronic Illness

Your Instructor

NCLEX Buddy

Written by the NCLEX Buddy team through primary-source research — the current NCSBN test plans, clinical references, and the NCSBN/ANA National Guidelines for Nursing Delegation — built for PN/LPN candidates specifically, not adapted from an RN course.