What's new
What's new in August 2026
Everything we shipped to BoardPal in August 2026.
Aug 8 to 14 · 11 new features
14Aug · Fri
New Hematology and Oncology sheet, plus report fixes
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New: a 31-page illustrated Hematology and Oncology cram sheet. more ▾less ▴
A Hematology and Oncology cram sheet is now on your Resources shelf under NP3, after several of you asked for it. Thirty-one illustrated pages covering both halves in one place: the anemias sorted by the size of the red cell, bleeding that is a platelet problem against bleeding that is a clotting problem, and blood transfusion from the crossmatch to the first fifteen minutes. Then what makes a cell malignant, what staging is actually measuring, surgery, radiation and chemotherapy with the nursing each one needs, living through treatment, the six oncologic emergencies, and the cancers site by site. It closes with a read the scenario, name the first action table for the last few days before the exam.
Re-read finished decks, honest question counts, steadier mock clock
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Read through any finished deck anytime — without touching your schedule. more ▾less ▴
With full access you can now read through every card of a flashcard deck whenever you like, even when they are all scheduled days away. Open any deck and tap Read through next to Exit (the deck list also shows a Read through button once a deck is caught up) for a reading view of every card, front and back. Reading never changes your review schedule — rated reviews still happen when cards come due, so the spacing you have earned stays intact. Decks you created yourself are always readable on any plan.
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13Aug · Thu
Highlights on cram sheets can now straighten themselves
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Cram sheet highlights snap to a clean straight line when you lift. more ▾less ▴
When you highlight a line of text on a cram sheet, the mark now snaps to a clean straight line the moment you lift your finger or pen, as long as your stroke already looked like one. Shaky hands get tidy highlights with no extra effort, and anything you draw on purpose, like waves, circles, or filling in a word with back-and-forth strokes, stays exactly as drawn. If you prefer fully freehand highlights, tap the Auto-straighten button beside the highlighter colors to turn it off. The ruler tool (R) is still there when you want every stroke, pen included, to draw straight.
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12Aug · Wed
New Professional Adjustment topic, bigger free sheet
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New topic: Professional Adjustment and Nursing Jurisprudence, with 80 questions. more ▾less ▴
There is a new topic in the question bank: Professional Adjustment and Nursing Jurisprudence. It is the PALMER ground the bank had almost nothing on, and it now holds 80 questions. It covers the four things a malpractice claim has to prove and how that differs from ordinary negligence, who else can be held answerable for a nurse's act, res ipsa loquitur, the difference between assault, battery, libel and slander, when consent is valid and who may give it for someone else, the three kinds of will, the burden of proof in a criminal case against a civil one, the bioethical principles, confidentiality and the Data Privacy Act, the Code of Ethics, the limits of nursing practice, and which body handles which kind of complaint.
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11Aug · Tue
A cleaner Home dashboard
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Study by Subject on Home: six subjects, progress bars, one tap to practice. more ▾less ▴
A Study by Subject section on Home shows all six exam subjects with a progress bar (green is right on the first try, red is wrong, gray is questions you have not met yet). One tap starts a practice set in that subject.
Your projected rating now appears when you finish practising
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Your projected PNLE rating now shows at the end of a set. more ▾less ▴
Under the session summary you will also see your projected PNLE rating, with your readiness band and the likely range around it. It is the same number as the one on your dashboard, not a rating for that one set: a set of 20 questions is far too small to rate you on, so this counts every question you have answered for the first time. If you have not answered 40 yet, it tells you how many more will unlock it.
New Renal cram sheet; select-all explanations rewritten
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A new 24 page cram sheet on renal and urinary nursing. more ▾less ▴
A new cram sheet is on the shelf: Renal and Urinary Elimination, 24 pages, in Resources under NP3. It covers acute kidney injury, chronic kidney disease and dialysis, and it goes wider than that: urinary tract infection and pyelonephritis, kidney stones, urinary retention and catheter care, the four types of incontinence, nephrotic versus nephritic side by side, and polycystic kidney disease. It was built because a student asked for it, so thank you.
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Diagrams of the nephron, uremia, and both kinds of dialysis equipment. more ▾less ▴
That sheet is built around its pictures. There is a labeled nephron that follows the filtrate from the glomerulus to the collecting duct, a head to toe map of what long standing kidney failure looks like on a patient, the hemodialysis machine with the blood traced out of the arm and back again, and the peritoneal dialysis setup that shows why the bag hangs high and the drain bag sits on the floor.
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It has a Philippine section as well, covering what PhilHealth actually pays for dialysis and for a kidney transplant, and the food advice that matters at a Filipino table, including why buko juice is not the harmless drink it looks like when your kidneys have stopped clearing potassium.
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Nine new sections in the Critical Care sheet, including transfusion reactions and crush syndrome. more ▾less ▴
Nine sections in that sheet are new: the complications that show up days after a heart attack, what to do with a fast rhythm in a patient who still has a pulse, running vasoactive drips safely, the central line and urinary catheter infection bundles, blood transfusion reactions, crush syndrome, rapid sequence intubation, sedation and delirium in the ICU, and a closing table that gives you a scenario and asks for the first action.
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Nine new sections in the Antepartum sheet, including HELLP and growth restriction. more ▾less ▴
Nine sections in the Antepartum sheet are new: dating a pregnancy by ultrasound and the newer screening tests, a baby growing too small or too big, HELLP, what gets checked after repeated miscarriage, caring for placenta previa in the weeks before birth, asthma and epilepsy and thyroid disease and urine infection in pregnancy, how a mother adjusts to being pregnant, and a closing table that hands you a scenario and asks for the first action.
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9Aug · Sun
Add photos to your own flashcards
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Attach photos to your custom flashcards. more ▾less ▴
Your custom flashcards can now carry a photo on the front and the back: snap a lecture slide, a drug table, or your own handwritten notes, and it shows up right on the card when you review. Open any of your decks, tap Edit, and look for the new photo button. (Feature request from a student — thank you!)
Your diagnostic now tells you how sure it is
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Diagnostic results now point you to where the precise numbers live. more ▾less ▴
Your diagnostic results now point you to the two places that measure properly: your Performance page, which rebuilds your subject breakdown from every question you answer, and the mock boards, which give you 100 items per subject instead of six.
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A nudge to sit your first mock board once you have the practice behind you. more ▾less ▴
Once you have a few hundred questions behind you, your dashboard and Performance page will remind you if you have not sat a mock board yet. A mock is 500 items in the real exam format, taken one subject at a time, and it is the clearest read you can get on where you actually stand.
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An unfinished mock board now reminds you which section is left. more ▾less ▴
If you left a mock board partway through, your dashboard and Performance page will now tell you how many sections are done and which one is next. Plenty of people finished four sections and never came back for the fifth, which is the one that unlocks the full result.
Your study plan now bends without breaking
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Change your exam or start date any time, and keep everything you have finished. more ▾less ▴
You can change your exam date or your start date any time, right from your Study Plan — the row of buttons under the dates. Your remaining days rebuild around the new window, everything you have already ticked off stays ticked, and the plan you had before is still there to restore. Until now the only way to move a date was Reset, which started you back at zero.
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Rebalanced by mistake? Undo rebalance puts every task back where it was. more ▾less ▴
Rebalance can be undone. If a respread leaves your days looking nothing like what you wanted, Undo rebalance puts every task back on the day it sat on before, and anything you ticked off in the meantime stays ticked.
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8Aug · Sat
Four cram sheets rebuilt; highlights survive updates
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Updated sheets keep their previous edition — your highlights stay exactly where you drew them. more ▾less ▴
From today, updating a sheet can no longer scramble your marks. Every sheet we re-lay out keeps its previous edition: open the sheet and tap the small clock icon in the top bar to flip between the new edition and the one you marked up, with every highlight and note exactly where you left it. Marks you make on each edition are saved separately, and the old edition stays available through exam day. If you had marked any of today's four sheets, there's a note on your dashboard with the details.
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New high-yield sections across all four sheets. more ▾less ▴
Some of what the new pages cover: Immunization adds the sick-young-infant danger signs, the First 1000 Days, PIMAM, and a table that drills you on naming the first action for a scenario. Nutrition & GI adds achalasia, Mallory-Weiss versus Boerhaave, the milk-and-ulcer myth, and acute mesenteric ischemia. Mental Health adds the neo-Freudians, medical conditions that mimic psychiatric ones, the recovery model, and trauma-informed care.
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A new section on which guideline to answer when the old and new versions disagree. more ▾less ▴
A student wrote in to ask what to do when the old guideline and the new one both turn up in the choices, so Immunization MCH & Nutrition now has a section answering it. The rule: if the stem names an authority, answer that one; if it names none, answer the Philippine one, because this is a Philippine licensure exam; and if it is the same authority with a newer edition, take the newer one. It works through the two that catch people out — dysentery follow-up at 2 or 3 days, and antenatal visits at 4 or 8, which turn out to be two different kinds of disagreement. The sheet is 25 pages now, and its closing number table lists the IMCI follow-up intervals.
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