What's new
What's new in August 2026
Everything we shipped to BoardPal in August 2026.
Aug 1 to 7 · 6 new features
7Aug · Fri
Six cram sheets rebuilt — easier to scan, and a lot more in them
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New sections across all six, including a medication-safety part in Pharmacology Core. more ▾less ▴
The extra pages are things that were missing rather than filler. Cardiovascular now covers heart sounds and where to listen, taking a chest-pain history, ejection fraction, acute pulmonary edema, cardiac cath and CABG aftercare, and the H's and T's. Pharmacology Core has a new medication-safety part: the Do Not Use abbreviations, look-alike drug pairs, and what to do when an error has already happened. Lab Values now tells you how each electrolyte is actually corrected, Dosage covers percentage and ratio strengths, body surface area and intake and output, and Endocrine adds myxedema coma, acromegaly and adrenalectomy.
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4Aug · Tue
Integrated Management of Childhood Illness gets its own topic
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IMCI is now its own topic, with 140 questions and a 40-card deck. more ▾less ▴
IMCI now has its own topic under Care of the Community, with 140 new questions and a 40-card deck. It is not a separately named line on the PNLE Table of Specifications, but it turns up on past boards constantly, and the bank had almost nothing on it — 8 questions out of more than 14,000. The new items cover the general danger signs, the classification tables and their colors, Plans A, B and C, and the follow-up intervals.
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Where old and new IMCI guidance disagree, the rationale names both and marks the current one. more ▾less ▴
Where the current WHO and DOH chart booklet disagrees with older Philippine review material, these questions follow the current chart and the rationale names the older position out loud, so you recognize both. That matters for chest indrawing, amoxicillin over cotrimoxazole, the 3-day follow-up, and how malnutrition is classified — all places where a past board paper keyed the older answer.
A Pure White theme
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A plain black-on-white theme, in Profile → Appearance. more ▾less ▴
By student request, there is now a Pure White theme: a plain black-on-white look with the cream background and the green and gold accents stripped out, for anyone who finds the tinted look distracting while answering questions. Right and wrong answers keep their green and red, and your highlighters keep their colors. Turn it on in Profile → Appearance — it sits alongside Light, Dark, and System, and like them it's saved per device. The sun/moon button in the top bar remembers it too: flip to Dark for the night and the sun brings back Pure White, not cream.
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3Aug · Mon
Retry the questions you missed in a set
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One tap re-takes just the questions you missed in a session. more ▾less ▴
By student request, every finished practice session now ends with a "Retry your misses" button: one tap starts a fresh set made of only the questions you got wrong in that session, in Practice mode with rationales after each answer. Past sessions have it too — open any session in History and retry its misses from there. It sits alongside your Vault, which keeps collecting every miss across sessions for longer-term review.
Fourteen new cram sheets — the library tripled
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Thirteen more cram sheets across MCN, med-surg, psych, critical care and CHN. more ▾less ▴
The cram sheet library has grown from 6 sheets to 20 over the last few days. New for maternal and child nursing: Antepartum, Intrapartum, and Postpartum, Newborn & Family Planning. New for medical-surgical: Perioperative Nursing and Nutrition & Gastrointestinal. New for psychiatric and critical care: Mental Health Concepts, Psychiatric Assessment, Therapies & Psychopharmacology, and Critical Care & Emergency Nursing. New for community health: Non-Communicable Diseases, Care of Families & Population Groups, and the Philippine Health System, UHC & Primary Health Care. All of them are in Resources now, and all of them are illustrated.
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Two more community health sheets: immunization with maternal and child health, and environment, disaster and records. more ▾less ▴
Community health nursing now has six cram sheets of its own. The two newest are Immunization, Maternal & Child Health & Nutrition, which lays out the National Immunization Program schedule with an illustration of an infant showing exactly where each vaccine goes and how deep the needle sits, then the cold chain, tetanus in pregnancy, the four pillars of safe motherhood, Unang Yakap, newborn screening, and IMCI from the general danger signs down to Plans A, B and C; and Environmental Health, Disaster & Records, which covers the water and toilet facility levels, food sanitation, the health care waste color code, the environmental laws, disaster management and START triage, school and occupational health, the Mental Health Act in the community, and how records and reports move up through the FHSIS.
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A new cram sheet on nursing theories and the nursing process. more ▾less ▴
By student request, there is also a new cram sheet on Theoretical Foundations & the Nursing Process — the subject where the options are four theorists and you either know the name or you don't. It sorts about twenty nursing theorists into four schools of thought so they stop blurring together, covers Nightingale, Henderson, Orem, Peplau, Roy, Neuman, Watson, Leininger and Benner in detail, and includes the Filipino theorists you won't find in an imported reviewer. It then walks the nursing process step by step, with prioritization, the five rights of delegation, and Republic Act 9173 and the Code of Ethics at the end.
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2Aug · Sun
Personal notes on questions, and more ways to go deeper
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Pin a private note to any question — it follows into every review. more ▾less ▴
By student request, you can now pin a personal note to any question. Tap "Add my note" under a rationale, write your own memory hook, and it stays with that question everywhere you meet it again — practice review, History, your Vault, and mock board reviews, on any device. Notes are private to you.
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