What's new in August 2026

Aug 22 to 31 · 8 new features

1. 30Aug · Sun

   Recall tape on cram sheets: cover the answers, tap to check yourself

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     New recall tape on cram sheets: cover a line, tap to peek, tap to re-cover. Saved to your account, ready for self-testing on every visit. more ▾less ▴

     You can now study your cram sheets with recall tape, the way many of you use a bookmark or your hand on paper notes. Open any sheet in Resources, open the annotation tools, and pick the new tape tool next to the highlighter. Drag across a line and an opaque strip covers it; tap the tape to peek underneath, tap it again to cover it back up. Your tapes are saved to your account like your highlights and notes, so a page you set up for self-testing is waiting for you on every device, every visit. A revealed tape shows a small circle you can tap to remove it, undo works as usual, and every tape starts covered again the next time you open the sheet, ready for another round of recall. This was a student suggestion, and a very good one.

2. 29Aug · Sat

   New Anatomy and Physiology sheet and 102 new questions

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     102 new fully-rationalized practice questions across 20 thinner topics, live now. more ▾less ▴

     We added 102 brand-new practice questions to 20 topics that had fewer questions than the rest of the bank. The biggest gains went to Oral, Esophageal & Gastric Disorders (26 new), School & Occupational Health Nursing, and Trauma-Related Disorders. Every question was written fresh with a full rationale, and all of them are already live in your practice pool and topic drills.

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     A new 41-page Anatomy and Physiology cram sheet, on the Foundations shelf in Resources. more ▾less ▴

     A new Anatomy and Physiology cram sheet is on the Foundations shelf in Resources: 41 pages, 30 illustrations. It is the sheet for every question that quietly assumes you already know the body. The direction words and body regions a stem uses to point at a part, homeostasis and the feedback loop every control system is built from, the cell and what crosses its membrane, the four tissues, skin and bone and muscle, the nerve impulse and the autonomic split, how a hormone gives an order, blood and the route through the heart, then breathing, digesting, filtering and reproducing. It closes with a 55-row table that takes a finding and names the structure behind it, and a Philippine section on where our own cut-offs differ from the Western ones, starting with the BMI bands the DOH actually uses. It exists because a subscriber asked whether an anaphy sheet would ever be made.

3. 27Aug · Thu

   Seven new cram sheets

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     A new cram sheet, Psychopathology B, covering schizophrenia, the personality disorders, substance use, delirium and dementia, and abuse and violence. more ▾less ▴

     There is a new cram sheet in your Resources library, Psychopathology B, and it covers the half of psychiatric nursing that Psychopathology A did not. Schizophrenia is taken from the premorbid years through the prodrome, the acute phase and the residual phase, with positive and negative symptoms set side by side so you can see which half the medicine actually fixes and which half is the reason somebody cannot hold a job. Brief psychotic disorder, schizophreniform disorder and schizophrenia sit on one clock, because duration is the whole diagnosis for those three. Then the ten personality disorders in their three clusters with the nursing each one needs, splitting and how it splits the staff rather than the patient, the substance use disorders with the alcohol withdrawal clock from the first tremor through to delirium tremens, delirium and the dementias beyond Alzheimer's, autism, ADHD, the impulse control disorders, the sexual disorders, and abuse and violence including the warning signs a nurse is required to notice. It closes with a twenty row table that reads a scenario and names the first action.

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     Seven new illustrations were drawn for it. Two of them are the ones we think you will actually remember in the exam hall. One puts a patient in early alcohol withdrawal next to the same patient three days later in delirium tremens, so you can see the difference between a man who is shaking and sweating but still knows where he is, and a man who is drenched, disoriented and brushing insects off his own arm. The other puts opioid overdose next to opioid withdrawal, because the pupils are the fastest thing you can read from the doorway and they point in opposite directions.

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     The Philippine layer on this sheet corrects something most review centers still teach. The Dangerous Drugs Board's own 2023 national household survey now puts marijuana first and shabu second among the drugs Filipinos actually use, not the other way round. The sheet prints both answers and tells you which frame each one belongs to, so you are not caught out whichever way the question is written. It also carries what the law requires after a voluntary submission, and the numbers on Filipino drinking that surprise most people, which is that two thirds of Filipinos do not drink at all while the ones who do drink a great deal.

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     A second new cram sheet, Epidemiology, Biostatistics & Research in CHN: vital statistics, demography, outbreak investigation, screening and nursing research. more ▾less ▴

     There is a second new sheet in the same update, Epidemiology, Biostatistics & Research in CHN, on the NP1 shelf. It is the numbers half of community health nursing, taught so the numbers stop being formulas to memorize. Every vital rate is read the same way, by what sits underneath the line: crude birth and crude death carry the whole midyear population, while infant, neonatal, fetal and maternal all carry live births, so six formulas collapse into one habit. Swaroop's index gets its own card because it is the one figure that is good news when it is high. Incidence and prevalence are split into risk against burden, with the duration rule that links them. From there the sheet walks an outbreak investigation in order, reads the epidemic curve by its three shapes, works screening on a thousand people so sensitivity, specificity and the predictive values all come out of one table, gives health education a genuinely barangay chapter, and finishes with the research half: the study designs, sampling, validity and reliability, choosing the statistical test, and research ethics.

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     Six diagrams were drawn for it. The three shapes of an epidemic curve are plotted from real case counts, so you can see why one clean peak means a single exposure, a plateau means the source is still open, and climbing stepped peaks mean person to person spread, with the trick of counting back from the peak to date the exposure drawn right on the chart. The six vital rates appear as actual fractions rather than sentences. The screening table is worked on a thousand people with both reading directions drawn on it, down a column for the test and across a row for the patient. And choosing a statistical test is drawn as a two question decision tree, because that is honestly all it takes.

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     Two places on this sheet protect you from an outdated answer. The law that created the Philippine Statistics Authority is Republic Act 10625, the Philippine Statistical Act of 2013, though some reviewer handouts still date it to 2002, and the sheet flags that directly. And the maternal mortality constant is printed both ways, per 1,000 live births as the classic Philippine teaching keys it and per 100,000 as the WHO and the Sustainable Development Goals define it, with the cue for reading which one a question wants.

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     A third new cram sheet, Philippine Health Laws & Legislation: every health law on one shelf, from the Nursing Act to universal health care. more ▾less ▴

     There is a third new sheet in this update, Philippine Health Laws & Legislation, on the NP1 shelf. It is the statute book of the exam: every health law in one place, organized so a question that describes a scene can be answered with the right law in seconds. It opens by teaching you to read the law itself, what an Act, a Republic Act, a Presidential Decree, an Executive Order, a Proclamation and an Administrative Order each are, who issues them, and how the number alone tells you the era, with a century of health legislation drawn on one timeline. Then the laws by shelf: the nursing law and its whole family tree from the first nursing law of 1919 to RA 9173, what a midwife may legally do and where the physician's territory begins, the rural health unit laws, the anti hospital deposit law with its own step by step figure of what an emergency room must do before anyone mentions money, disease reporting from 1929 to RA 11332, the immunization laws, the HIV law's consent rules, Medicare to PhilHealth to universal health care, the generics and cheaper medicines laws, the senior citizen and PWD benefit chains, the mother and child laws, and the environment, workplace and nutrition laws. It closes with every amendment chain on one shelf, a box of look alike numbers built to confuse you, and a twenty two row table that reads a scenario and names the law.

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     Two rows on the health laws sheet protect you from the handouts themselves. Review materials everywhere say that PD 147 declares April and May as National Immunization Day. Checked against the official record, Presidential Decree 147 is a 1973 order about disposing of highway bureau equipment; the real instrument is Proclamation No. 147 of 1993, which set the first National Immunization Days for the polio eradication drive. The sheet tells you to still choose PD 147 if that is all the answer key offers, and to know what the instrument really is. It does the same for RA 1136, which reviewers describe as recognizing the tuberculosis division when the statute itself says reorganizing.

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     A fourth new cram sheet, Therapeutic Communication & Crisis Intervention: every technique and every block, personal space and touch, the relationship phase by phase, and crisis intervention. more ▾less ▴

     There is a fourth new sheet in this update, Therapeutic Communication & Crisis Intervention, on the NP5 shelf. It is the talking half of psychiatric nursing, which the board tests harder than any drug. Every therapeutic technique is on one shelf with what it is and what it actually sounds like, from broad openings and offering self to presenting reality and voicing doubt, and every blocked response sits beside it with the reason it fails: false reassurance, giving advice, asking why, changing the subject and the rest. The sheet then teaches how these items are keyed. Name the feeling before the facts, prefer the open question, and know the two exceptions, because suicide is asked about directly and a patient in panic needs short concrete words. Personal space is drawn with the distances that go with it, the five kinds of touch each get a rule, and there are rows for the patient who cannot hear, see or speak, for working through an interpreter, and for the Filipino patient: po at opo, pakikiramdam, and the family that answers as one. The relationship itself is walked phase by phase from the first chart review to termination, with boundaries and what a nurse may share about herself. Then the crisis half: what a crisis is and is not, the four stages it climbs, the three balancing factors that decide who breaks and who copes, the nurse who turns active and directive, and the five phase aggression cycle with the response each phase earns. It closes with a thirteen row table that reads a scenario and names the first response.

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     Six illustrations were drawn for it. The one we think you will use most runs the same patient line through two answers, the blocked one beside the therapeutic one, four times over, so the pattern behind every communication item is visible at a glance. And the listening posture is shown rather than described: a nurse sitting squarely, open, leaning in, holding eye contact and at ease, with each of the five letters of the classic memory aid beside the part of her that is doing it, and the newer version of that advice printed under the figure.

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     A fifth new cram sheet, Musculoskeletal: fractures, compartment syndrome, casts and traction with their Philippine name tables, hip replacement, osteoporosis, arthritis and gout. more ▾less ▴

     There is a fifth new sheet in this update, Musculoskeletal, on the NP4 shelf, and it is the largest of the six at twenty nine pages. It starts where the exam starts, with a broken bone: the fracture patterns, the emergency care at the roadside, the neurovascular check written out finger by finger, and compartment syndrome taught as a ladder in time, because the order the signs arrive in is the whole question. Then everything a fracture drags behind it: fat embolism with its neurologic first sign, casts from plaster to fiberglass with the palms-not-fingertips rule, and traction from principles to pin care. Two tables were built specifically for the Philippine exam room: the cast and brace names, Minerva to Denis Browne, and the traction names, Buck's to balanced suspension, because those names are asked by name. From there it walks crutches and the four gaits, hip fracture and the replacement precautions, knee replacement, amputation care hour by hour, and the spine surgery nursing another sheet promised you, then the chronic shelf: osteoporosis with the T-score table, Paget's, rheumatoid arthritis against osteoarthritis, gout with a Filipino purine list, the bone infections, fibromyalgia, scoliosis and low back pain. It closes with a nine row table that reads a scenario and names the first action.

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     Eight illustrations were drawn or sourced for it. The centerpiece is a traction plate you can point at: Buck's traction beside balanced suspension on one bed, with nine numbered markers so the rope, the pulley, the weight and the free-hanging rule each get named. Around it sit the eight fracture patterns on one strip, the four stages a healing bone passes through, healthy against brittle bone inside the spine, the two hip precautions drawn as postures with the wedge between the knees, rheumatoid against osteoarthritic hands, and the compartment syndrome ladder.

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     Several rows on this sheet protect you from an outdated or a copied answer. Where guidance has moved, both answers are printed and labeled: the classic five P's of compartment syndrome beside the current teaching that pain out of proportion comes first and the pulse usually survives, the strict hip precautions beside the large modern analysis that relaxed them, RICE beside its newer successor for sprains, and the old tender point count for fibromyalgia beside the current criteria. The brace named after Denis Browne is spelled the way he spelled it, though many handouts print Dennis. And there is a Philippine row most reviewers skip: what to ask, in Filipino, before a patient sees the manghihilot, because a massaged fracture heals crooked.

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     A sixth new cram sheet, Respiratory B: pneumonia, ARDS, collapsed lungs and chest tubes, pulmonary embolism and pulmonary hypertension. more ▾less ▴

     And there is a sixth new sheet, Respiratory B, on the NP3 shelf, finishing what Respiratory A started. It carries the lung diseases that put people in hospital beds: pneumonia sorted by where you caught it, community, hospital, ventilator or aspiration, with the sputum-before-the-first-antibiotic rule and the older patient whose only sign is new confusion; the lung abscess that foul sputum announces; respiratory failure defined by its numbers rather than by impressions; and ARDS, the wet stiff lung that oxygen alone cannot fix, with why the ventilator uses small gentle breaths, what sixteen hours face down does, and how to care for a patient who is paralyzed by medicine but wide awake underneath it. Then the pleural space: every pneumothorax told apart, the tension emergency that is treated on sight and never waits for an x-ray, blood in the chest, rib fractures and why the chest is never strapped, fluid and pus around the lung, the thoracentesis position, and coughed blood read against vomited blood. The clot chapter follows a piece of leg clot from calf to lung, then teaches what proves it, what dissolves it, and what only prevents the next one. Pulmonary hypertension and the failing right heart close the disease list, and a fourteen row table reads a scenario and names the first move.

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     Six illustrations were made for it, and the one we built most carefully is the chest tube page. A patient sits in bed connected to the classic three bottle drainage system, the setup Philippine hospitals still run, with five numbered markers so each bottle's job is read off the picture: the first bottle collects, the second is the water seal that lets air out and nothing back in, the third sets the suction by how deep its open tube sits in the water. The drawing was checked bottle by bottle against published references before it shipped. Beside it sit a healthy chest and a collapsed lung drawn from the same medical atlas, the clot's whole journey from leg vein through the heart into the lung, a patient wearing every sign of a tension pneumothorax, another wearing the signs of a pulmonary embolism down to the one swollen calf, and the exact position a patient takes for a pleural tap.

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     Where guidance has moved, this sheet prints both answers and labels them: the Berlin grading of ARDS beside the newer global definition written for hospitals without arterial lines, the classic pressure threshold for pulmonary hypertension beside the 2022 European revision, and the pneumonia vaccines as the exam still keys them beside the current single-dose schedule that now starts at fifty. It also carries a Philippine row worth telling your family about: every Filipino sixty and older is entitled to one free pneumonia vaccine in a lifetime and a free flu shot every year, at the barangay health center, under the Expanded Senior Citizens Act.

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     A new cram sheet, Fundamentals & Health Assessment: vital signs, the head-to-toe exam, pressure injuries, positioning, catheters, enemas, hygiene, and care of the dying. more ▾less ▴

     There is also a new cram sheet called Fundamentals & Health Assessment, the bedside course the whole exam quietly assumes you already know. All five vital signs are taught route by route with the numbers that get tested: which patients must never have an oral or a rectal temperature, the four fever patterns drawn as curves, what to do during the chill and what to do during the flush, and the tepid sponge bath done the way the textbook actually describes it. The nine pulse points sit on one labeled body. Blood pressure gets the full treatment: the five Korotkoff sounds, the palpation step that catches the silent gap, a table of everything that fakes a high or a low reading, and the three position check for dizziness on standing. Then the head to toe itself: the four examination skills in order, why the abdomen is listened to before it is touched, the percussion notes, and the vocabulary of skin lesions from macule to petechiae.

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     Pressure injuries get the deepest coverage on any shelf: the Braden score with its bands, all six faces of a pressure injury drawn on one block of skin going deeper stage by stage, the rules examiners love (never massage a red spot, never a donut cushion, float the heels, and both thirty degree rules), and a drill that reads the chart note and names the stage. Beside it sits a plate of six bedside positions with their angles and their reasons, from high Fowler down to the thirty degree pressure relief lean, plus logrolling, transfers, stretcher rules, and how restraints are used lawfully, checked, and released on schedule.

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     The unglamorous skills that fill whole exam sets are all here too: the bed bath in its exact order, oral care for the unconscious patient, denture care, the occupied bed; urinary catheterization step by step with a labeled picture of the closed drainage system and the reasons the bag stays below the bladder and the tubing runs downhill; every enema with its volume and how long it stays in; the specimen rules, including the 24 hour urine trap; heat and cold with the safe temperatures and the rebound warning; sleep and its disorders; pain as the fifth vital sign; and care of the dying patient through to postmortem care done with dignity.

4. 25Aug · Tue

   The 10-Month Plan is now a full year, at the same price

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     The 1-Year Plan is 40% off with code FEB40 from 7:00 PM on August 25, for the first 500 students. more ▾less ▴

     If you are preparing for either of the 2027 boards, February or August, the 1-Year Plan drops to 40% off at 7:00 PM on August 25: ₱599 instead of ₱999 with the code FEB40. Until it opens, a countdown on the homepage, on the checkout and on your dashboard shows exactly how long is left, and it turns into the offer itself the moment the clock runs out. The code is printed right on the checkout with a one-tap apply button, so there is nothing to hunt for. A full year of access covers your whole review with room to spare. The offer runs until September 30, or until the first 500 codes are used, whichever comes first.

   A new Psychopathology A cram sheet: anxiety, trauma, mood and eating

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     New: a Psychopathology A cram sheet on anxiety, trauma, mood and eating, on your NP5 shelf. more ▾less ▴

     The first of the two psychopathology cram sheets is now on your Resources shelf under NP5: Psychopathology A — Anxiety, Trauma, Mood & Eating, fifteen illustrated pages. It opens where the exam opens, with anxiety that has stopped working as a signal and started running the patient's life: generalized anxiety and its worry that never lands, panic disorder drawn as a curve so you can see the surge peak and fade, and every phobia the boards name. Where the old reviewers and the current manual disagree, BOTH answers are printed side by side instead of one being quietly chosen for you, so a stem written either way still has your answer in it — the panic surge that peaks in minutes against the classic fifteen to thirty, obsessive-compulsive disorder filed under anxiety or in its own chapter, post-traumatic stress in either place, and the anorexia criteria that were dropped but still turn up in old keys. The disorders where anxiety hides get a part of their own, the bodily ones and the memory-and-identity ones, with a four-way table for telling apart the cases students swap under time pressure. Trauma is laid on one timeline so acute stress disorder, PTSD and adjustment disorder stop blurring: three days to a month, beyond a month, and the delayed kind that surfaces half a year later. Rape-trauma syndrome is walked through the way the law relies on it — the calm survivor who is not an unharmed survivor, the examination before any washing, written consent before every photograph and specimen, paper bags never plastic, the chain of custody — and the reminder that evidence care never outranks her medical care or her own choices. The mood part runs the full spectrum from major depression through bipolar I and II to cyclothymia, with the depressed patient and the manic patient drawn facing each other, because nursing them is opposite work: one needs the day structured and the danger window about two weeks after an antidepressant starts watched closely, the other needs finger food put in his hand while he paces. The eating disorders close it, anorexia and bulimia side by side on one illustration, from the fine downy lanugo to the knuckle marks of Russell's sign. Philippine reality runs through the whole sheet: RA 8505 and the rape crisis centres it created, what was actually measured in survivors after Typhoon Yolanda, and the family table where food is love and refusing lola's cooking reads as an insult instead of a symptom. The last page is a rapid drill: the stem says this, you are looking at that, and here is the FIRST action.

   A new Neuro C cram sheet: spinal cord injury and peripheral nerves

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     New: a Neuro C cram sheet on spinal cord injury and peripheral nerves, on your NP4 shelf. more ▾less ▴

     The third and final neuro cram sheet is now on your Resources shelf under NP4: Neuro C — Spinal Cord Injury & Peripheral Nerves, seventeen illustrated pages. It opens with the cord map: a level-by-level chart of what still works after an injury at each level — why C4 decides the ventilator question, why C6 can still grip through the tenodesis trick, and why S2 to S4 run the bladder, bowel and sexual function — beside a dermatome body map with the landmarks the exam actually tests, like the thumb at C6, the nipple line at T4 and the umbilicus at T10. The incomplete-cord syndromes each get a row, with Brown-Séquard drawn on a body so the crossed pain-and-temperature loss finally makes sense. The first hours are walked in order: jaw thrust with the neck held still, the four-person log-roll, keeping the blood pressure up to feed the bruised cord, and spinal shock against neurogenic shock at the bedside. The halo vest is drawn with its taped wrench and the CPR rule that goes with it, and the skull-tong rules are spelled out. Autonomic dysreflexia, the pounding-headache emergency the boards never skip, gets a full part: the flushed-above, pale-below patient drawn sitting bolt upright because sitting up IS the first action, the bladder-bowel-skin trigger hunt in order, and both the classic drug answer and the current one. The rehab years follow — bladder and bowel programs, the skin schedule, spasticity, sexuality answered honestly, and the PWD discounts your patient is entitled to by law. The sheet closes with the peripheral nerves: the stocking-glove pattern drawn on a body, carpal tunnel with its night splint, sciatica with its red flags, and a Philippine road-safety section, because the motorcycle is where most of these injuries begin.

5. 24Aug · Mon

   Jump straight to your next plan task

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     Finish a Study Plan task and jump straight into the next one. more ▾less ▴

     Finishing a practice set that came from your Study Plan now shows what's next on today's plan, with a button that takes you straight into that task — no more walking back through the dashboard to find it. If that was the last task of the day, the screen says so instead.

6. 22Aug · Sat

   Make flashcards from any question; cram links on cards

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     Make a flashcard from any question's explanation, checked against the same rules our own cards follow. more ▾less ▴

     Under every explanation in practice and in your session history there is now a Make a flashcard control. Tap it to add a ready-made flashcard we wrote from that question when one exists, or to write your own card into one of your decks, starting from the answer or from a contrast with one of the wrong choices. Your card is checked against the same house rules our own flashcards follow, so it will not give its answer away on the front or lean on words like only and always, and it goes straight into your own deck for spaced review. One of you asked for this while reviewing a finished session. Making your own flashcards is part of Premium.