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Sep 1 to 7 · 40 improvements
7Sep · Mon
Fifty intra-operative questions now read like the board exam
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All 50 intra-operative questions rewritten to board-exam length, with sharper choices and clearer explanations. more ▾less ▴
Every practice question in the intra-operative phase topic (traffic zones and attire, the stages of general anesthesia, the sterile field, positioning, sterilization, malignant hyperthermia, hypothermia, the surgical count and the scrub and circulating roles) was rewritten in one pass: the scenario cut to the point (average stem 64 to 24 words; 49 of the 50 had been over the exam's own length), the four choices made equally plausible with one defensible runner-up, and the explanation rewritten to open with the answer and teach the rule that decides it, with every fact the rewrite introduced checked against a primary source. Answer keys unchanged.
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Thirty-one of those questions repeated a question elsewhere in the bank (sterile-field rules also tested in two other topics and in this topic's own multi-answer questions, four surgical-count items, four role items, the malignant-hyperthermia family cluster) and now test intra-operative ground the bank had never covered: the surgical hand scrub, operating-room air handling, the pneumatic tourniquet, latex allergy, the operating-room fire triad, early local anesthetic toxicity, weighing sponges to measure blood loss, surgical smoke, the skin-prep pattern, balanced anesthesia, draping, redosing the prophylactic antibiotic, what a sterilization indicator proves, naming the regional technique, anesthesia awareness, who calls a position change, citrate in a massive transfusion, carbon-dioxide pneumoperitoneum, bone cement implantation syndrome, the gown's sterile zone, the client's exposure and dignity, and deliberate hypotension.
Fifty-six stress-and-coping questions now read like the board exam
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All 56 stress-and-coping questions rewritten to board-exam length, with sharper choices and clearer explanations. more ▾less ▴
Every practice question in the therapeutic stress models topic (Selye's stress response, appraisal and coping, defense mechanisms and their maturity levels, Freud's structures, Beck's and Ellis's cognitive models, Peplau's phases and roles, Maslow's needs) was rewritten in one pass: the scenario cut to the point (average stem 53 to 34 words; 31 of the 56 had been over the exam's own length, and eight bare name-the-term prompts became real client scenes), the four choices made equally plausible with one defensible runner-up, and the explanation rewritten to open with the answer and teach the rule that decides it, with every definition the rewrite introduced checked against a primary source. Answer keys unchanged.
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Twenty-six of those questions duplicated a question elsewhere in the bank (six Erikson stages, splitting, the alarm stage, two most-mature-defense twins) and now test stress-model ground the bank had never covered: allostatic load, primary versus secondary appraisal, hardiness, the Social Readjustment Rating Scale, Neuman's lines of defense, Roy's focal, contextual and residual stimuli, Selye's local adaptation syndrome, Beck's cognitive triad and cognitive levels, stress inoculation, biofeedback versus muscle relaxation, and what makes a defense mechanism maladaptive.
Fifty-five surgery-preparation questions now read like the board exam
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All 55 pre-operative questions rewritten to board-exam length, with sharper choices and clearer explanations. more ▾less ▴
Every practice question in the pre-operative phase topic (consent, fasting orders, medication holds, lab clearance, teaching before surgery, site marking and the surgical safety checklist) was rewritten in one pass: the scenario cut to the point (average stem 66 to 29 words; 49 of the 55 had been over the exam's own length), the four choices made equally plausible with one defensible runner-up, and the explanation rewritten to open with the answer and teach the rule that decides it, with every dose, cut-off and guideline claim checked against its source. Answer keys unchanged.
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Twenty-five of those questions duplicated a question elsewhere in the bank and now test ground the bank had never covered: the fasting intervals for clear liquids, milk and solids, the surgical safety checklist's three pauses, who marks the operative site and when, the four-week smoking-cessation window, HbA1c before elective surgery, why a beta-blocker is continued, active warming before induction, functional capacity in METs, bowel preparation with oral antibiotics, and more.
A tidier Vault page
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The Vault card shows a count and a bar, like the rest of the site. more ▾less ▴
The Vault opens like the other pages, with a title and a short intro. The card up top now shows To redo with your count on the right and a bar for how much of the pile this run covers, instead of a big number.
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The heaviest-topic rows use green Redo and outline Drill fresh buttons instead of red chips and a small link, the section counts are one quiet line instead of pills, and the Start review button spans the width on phones. The free-plan note is a plain sentence with a button.
Four cram sheets rebuilt in the newer layout
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The Theoretical Foundations cram sheet is rebuilt in the newer layout, 31 to 37 pages. more ▾less ▴
The Theoretical Foundations and the Nursing Process cram sheet now uses the newer layout: every entry has a short label down the left, the long paragraphs are broken into bullets, and each table cell says one thing. It has grown from 31 pages to 37.
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The Families and Population Groups cram sheet is rebuilt in the newer layout, 14 to 17 pages. more ▾less ▴
The Care of Families and Population Groups cram sheet is rebuilt the same way: short labels down the left, the paragraphs broken into bullets, and each table cell saying one thing. It has grown from 14 pages to 17.
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The Psych Assessment and Pharmacology cram sheet is rebuilt in the newer layout, 20 to 24 pages. more ▾less ▴
The Psychiatric Assessment, Therapies and Psychopharmacology cram sheet is rebuilt the same way: short labels down the left, the paragraphs broken into bullets, and each table cell saying one thing. It has grown from 20 pages to 24, and the two body charts (NMS against serotonin syndrome, and anticholinergic toxicity) have larger, readable labels.
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The Non-Communicable Diseases cram sheet is rebuilt in the newer layout, 17 to 21 pages; the whole library is now in the newer layout. more ▾less ▴
The Non-Communicable Diseases cram sheet is rebuilt the same way: short labels down the left, the paragraphs broken into bullets, and each table cell saying one thing. It has grown from 17 pages to 21. With it, every cram sheet in the library now uses the newer layout.
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Earlier highlights stay on the previous edition, one tap away behind the clock icon. more ▾less ▴
If you had highlights on the earlier edition, they are exactly where you drew them. Open the sheet and tap the clock icon in the top bar to read that edition with your marks in place.
A tidier Profile page
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Profile matches the other pages: calmer badges, plain headings. more ▾less ▴
Profile now opens like the other pages, with a title and a short intro. Your plan badge is a quiet outline instead of a gold gradient, the avatar is one colour for everyone, and the section headings lost their small icons.
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The name, timezone, and Telegram fields are rounded like the site's search boxes, and Save changes, Sign out, and the upgrade button share the site's button size and shape. The What's new row matches the tiles on Home.
Six student reports, six questions repaired
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The beneficence question names the client's good, and the grieving-client question no longer hinges on offering a tissue. more ▾less ▴
Two explanations were rewritten for clarity. The ethics question about a nurse who repositions, applies compression and walks a reluctant client now says what the client's good actually is, his skin, his veins, and his lungs, bowels and muscles, and names the duty behind each wrong choice. The grieving-client question no longer has the nurse offer a tissue, because some communication references teach that a tissue handed over the moment someone cries can read as a cue to stop; the choice now rests on staying quietly present, and the explanation keeps that point as a note. No correct answer changed on any of the six questions, so every result you have already recorded still stands.
Study Plan: the Reset and Restore buttons fill the width on phones
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At the bottom of your Study Plan, the Reset schedule and Restore previous plan buttons now stack full width on a phone, like the other buttons on the site, and Reset matches the Restore button's outline style.
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6Sep · Sun
A tidier Study Plan page
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The Study Plan progress card matches the other pages. more ▾less ▴
The progress card at the top of your plan now matches the rest of the site: Plan progress, your done count and percentage on the right, and one bar that turns green when the plan is complete.
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The Change dates, Restore plan, and upgrade buttons share the site's button size and shape, and the explanations on the setup and plan screens read as plain sentences.
A tidier Performance page
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Performance buttons match the rest of the site. more ▾less ▴
Every button on Performance now matches the rest of the site: Study today, Start practicing, Drill my weakest topics, and the small Drill this and What's Next buttons share one size and shape.
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Section headings lost their small icons, the completed-mock segments and the strong-run dots are green like the Mock Boards page, and the explanations under each section read as plain sentences.
Environmental Health cram sheet rebuilt
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The Environmental Health cram sheet is rebuilt in the newer layout, 14 to 18 pages. more ▾less ▴
The Environmental Health, Disaster and Records cram sheet now uses the newer layout: every entry has a short label down the left, the long paragraphs are broken into bullets, and each table cell says one thing. It has grown from 14 pages to 18.
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Earlier highlights stay on the previous edition, one tap away behind the clock icon. more ▾less ▴
If you had highlights on the earlier edition, they are exactly where you drew them. Open the sheet and tap the clock icon in the top bar to read that edition with your marks in place.
A tidier Achievements page
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Achievements has a progress card up top and calmer milestone tiles. more ▾less ▴
Achievements now opens like the other pages: the title, a short intro, and a Your progress card with your earned count and one bar. Each milestone is a tile with its icon, name, and one line, the count on the right, and a bar underneath. Earned ones show a green check and a full green bar.
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Milestones you have not reached yet no longer show a padlock, since nothing about them is locked. They show a muted award icon and a gold progress bar instead. The EARNED label is gone; the green check says it.
Mock board sections now open in any order
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Mock board sections can be taken in any order. NP1 to NP5 is now a suggestion, not a lock. more ▾less ▴
On a mock board, every section now has its own Start button from the beginning. You no longer have to finish NP1 before NP2 opens, so if you only need to practise certain sections, such as NP4 and NP5 for a Day 2 exam, you can go straight to them. We still suggest NP1 to NP5, the way the real board runs, and the note at the top of each board says so. Everything else is unchanged: one sitting per section, no reopening a submitted section, and your full results after all five are in.
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A retake can start at any section, picked on the Before you begin screen. more ▾less ▴
Retaking a finished board can now begin at any section too. The Before you begin screen on a retake has a Start with row, NP1 to NP5, with NP1 preselected.
A tidier Leaderboard
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The Leaderboard visibility card reads calmer. more ▾less ▴
The visibility card reads calmer: the three house rules are a plain list instead of three lock icons, the display-name field is a rounded pill, and the Save button matches the rest of the site.
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The period and mock-board selectors use the same chip style as the other pages, and the intro is two sentences.
Forty-four nutrition questions now read like the board exam
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All 44 malnutrition questions rewritten to board-exam length, with sharper choices and clearer explanations. more ▾less ▴
Every practice question in the malnutrition topic (protein-energy malnutrition, refeeding syndrome, tube and intravenous feeding, weight-loss surgery and obesity care) was rewritten in one pass: the scenario cut to the point (average stem 52 to 25 words), the four choices made equally plausible with one defensible runner-up, and the explanation rewritten to open with the answer and teach the rule that decides it, with every dose, cut-off and guideline claim checked against its source. Answer keys unchanged.
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Fourteen of those questions duplicated a question elsewhere in the bank and now test ground the bank had never covered: the F-75 to F-100 feeding phases, the peripheral-line osmolarity ceiling, thiamine before the first feed, nitrogen balance, formula hang time, lipid emulsions, nutrition screening tools, adult zinc deficiency, and more.
A tidier Mock Boards page
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Mock board cards show a five-section bar and one clear status line. more ▾less ▴
Each mock board card now matches the rest of the site: the title with its facts on one line, a five-segment bar showing how many sections you have submitted, one sentence on where you stand, and a single Start, Continue, or Retake button. The In progress and Not started labels became that sentence.
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On the free plan, locked boards use a quiet outline Unlock button, and the full-access note at the bottom is a plain sentence with a button, like the other pages. Your readiness tier still shows on boards you have finished.
Home, Flashcards, Practice and Resources share one look
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Home shows one Today card with meters for both your daily questions and flashcards. more ▾less ▴
On the free plan, Home now shows one Today card with two meters side by side: your 10 daily questions and your 5 daily flashcards. Tap either meter to start, and each one tells you how many you have left.
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The Explore cards lost their labels and read quieter. more ▾less ▴
The small FREE DAILY and PREMIUM labels on the Explore cards are gone, and the cards are shorter and quieter. What is free is stated on each page itself.
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Flashcards no longer appear twice on the free Home page. They live in the Today card, so Explore shows Leaderboard, Resources, and Achievements in one even row.
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The Flashcards page starts with one clean Today card, matching Home. more ▾less ▴
The Today's flashcards card at the top of Flashcards now matches the Home page: your count, one bar, one sentence on what is next, and the Start button. For full-access students the Choose topics button sits right beside Start instead of floating under the card.
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Deck rows only highlight decks with cards due now. more ▾less ▴
Deck rows are calmer. Only decks with cards due now get a solid green button, so they stand out. Decks you have not started, and decks that are locked on the free plan, use quiet outline buttons instead of a gold pill on every line.
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The subject headers use a proper arrow icon, the rows have a little more breathing room, and the intro no longer mentions the scheduling algorithm by name.
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Practice opens with one clean Today card, matching Home and Flashcards. more ▾less ▴
The Practice page now opens with a Today's practice card that matches Home and Flashcards: your count for the day, the free-plan bar, one sentence on what is next, and the Start mixed set button. Build a custom set is a proper button beside it instead of a small underlined link.
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Topic rows and the search box read quieter. more ▾less ▴
Topic rows lost the gold question-count pill; the count now sits quietly beside the topic name. The topic search box and the filter chips match the Flashcards page, and the page shows one colour legend instead of two.
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Resources reads shorter and matches the other pages. more ▾less ▴
The Resources page has a two-sentence intro instead of a paragraph, the guide tiles lost their small free tags, and the search box and section chips now match the Flashcards and Practice pages.
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The Lectures coming-soon box folded into the Coming next card as one line, and the full-access note at the bottom is now a plain sentence with a button, like the Home page.
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Full-access students no longer see Free sample tags on cram-sheet covers, since every sheet is open to them. Free-plan students still see them.
Foundations button fits again; Everything toggles off
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Everything now toggles: press it again to clear the sections and start from nothing. more ▾less ▴
Pressing Everything while every section is already selected now clears the selection, so you can start from nothing and tap only the sections you want. Pressing it again selects every section. Before, Everything could only select, never deselect.
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The note under the section buttons is now only the topic count. more ▾less ▴
The note under the section buttons is now just the count, for example 32 of 155 topics. The sentences about mock board days and about Foundations are gone from there; the Foundations button itself still explains what it covers if you hold or hover on it, and the Help page keeps the full answer.
One-tap exam sections and a sample plan on Home
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Tapping a section while Everything is selected narrows the plan to that section alone. more ▾less ▴
Choosing the exam sections your plan covers is now one tap. With Everything selected, tapping a section, say NP4, narrows the plan to NP4 alone instead of switching NP4 off. From there, tapping another section adds it, tapping a selected one removes it, and Everything brings the whole exam back. So a plan for NP4 and NP5 is two taps, not five. This works the same on the plan setup card and in the Exam sections button on the Schedule page.
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Everything sits on its own row above six evenly spaced section buttons. more ▾less ▴
The section buttons now sit evenly. Everything has its own row, and the six sections, Foundations and NP1 to NP5, sit in one row on a computer and in two rows of three on a phone. Seven buttons in a single wrapping row had left NP5 by itself on a second line.
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The free Home page shows a sample of what Today's Plan looks like. more ▾less ▴
On the free plan, the Today's Plan card on your Home page now shows the same three-day sample that the Schedule page shows, a Monday to Wednesday with practice questions, flashcards and a mock board, so you can see what the card fills with before you tap See how it works.
49 mental health questions read like the exam
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All forty-nine foundations of mental health questions are rewritten to board shape: shorter scenarios, four plausible choices with a named runner-up, explanations that open with the answer, and every RA 11036 claim checked against the law. more ▾less ▴
Every practice question in foundations of mental health nursing was rewritten in one pass. The scenario is cut to the point, with the average stem down from forty-one words to twenty-five, so you read the finding and the ask, not a story. The four choices are now equally plausible on one axis, with one wrong choice that a well-prepared nurse could genuinely argue for, and the explanation names that choice and says what separates it from the answer. Each explanation opens by saying why the correct answer is correct, then gives the rule you can carry to the next question, then takes the other choices one by one without ranking them. No sentence runs past twenty-eight words, and no explanation is longer than the one it replaced. Every claim about the Mental Health Act, RA 11036, was checked against the text of the law itself, including the emergency restraint safeguards, written consent, and the rights of a person admitted without their consent. Twelve questions that repeated a fact a sibling already tested now ask about ground the bank had never covered, such as the hippocampus, the Philippine Council for Mental Health, supported decision making, and the stigma carried by a family. Answer keys did not change, so past attempts keep their score.
One button per exam section; shorter rest-day choices
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Exam sections are chosen with one button per section: Everything, Foundations, NP1 to NP5. more ▾less ▴
When you build a plan, and when you change the sections of a live plan, the exam sections are now a row of buttons: Everything, Foundations, NP1, NP2, NP3, NP4 and NP5. Tap a section to leave it out or bring it back, and tap Everything to cover the whole exam again. The Day 1 only, Day 2 only and Custom buttons are gone, so choosing NP4 and NP5 is simply a matter of switching off NP1, NP2 and NP3. Foundations is the pharmacology, laboratory values, prioritization and PALMR bucket that the exam tests inside every section, and the note under the buttons says so if you switch it off. Your Home page and the Schedule page still describe a plan that keeps only NP4 and NP5 as Day 2 only.
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Rest-day choices are now None, Sundays, Weekends and Custom, laid out evenly. more ▾less ▴
The rest-day choices on the plan setup card now read None, Sundays, Weekends and Custom, instead of No rest days, 1 rest day, Sunday and 2 rest days, weekends. The four sit on one row on a computer and in an even two-by-two on a phone, so Custom no longer lands on a line by itself. The same short labels appear in the Rest days button on the Schedule page.
Section-only plans can now be as short as 5 days
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The Exam sections button is clearer, its section toggles are always visible, and Home shows which sections your plan covers. more ▾less ▴
The button on the Schedule page now reads Exam sections instead of Sections, and shows all (NP1 to NP5) rather than everything. Inside it, the six section toggles, Foundations and NP1 to NP5, are always visible under the quick picks, so choosing NP4 and NP5 is a matter of tapping NP4 and NP5; the separate Custom button is gone. Your Home page now shows which exam sections your plan covers, with a Change link, under Today's Plan. Help and support gained the question Can my study plan cover only NP4 and NP5. A student with the schedule open on a tablet still asked whether the plan could be customised to NP4 and NP5 only, which told us the choice was too easy to miss.
Exam mode and the per-question timer, now from your Study Plan
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The feature tour now covers Session options on plan tasks, so the tour card is offered once more. more ▾less ▴
The feature tour now mentions this. Its Home step, which explains Today's Plan, says that a practice-questions task also offers Session options in its popup. Because the tour changed, the small Take the tour card is offered once more on your dashboard. It is optional, and you can dismiss it as before.
Flashcards name their laws; shortcuts on phones
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The warfarin pre-op lab question now gives real values instead of hints. more ▾less ▴
The pre-operative lab question about a man on warfarin awaiting a prostate operation used to describe his results in words such as slightly below his usual value and clearly above the target, which quietly told you which one mattered. It now gives the four actual values and leaves the reading to you. The correct answer letter did not change, so past attempts keep their score.
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5Sep · Sat
5 student reports fixed; 2 flashcards added
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The weight-loss pace question now reads in kilograms, and the sleeve gastrectomy vitamin question no longer has a choice that ends mid-thought. more ▾less ▴
Two nutrition questions were reworded after student reports this week. The weight-management question that asked what a realistic, sustainable weekly loss looks like gave its rate only in pounds. It now gives the rate in kilograms first, about half a kilogram to one kilogram a week, the way it is taught here and the way our other weight-loss question already read, and its explanation opens by saying why that rate is the standard instead of only repeating the choice. The question about why a patient takes chewable or liquid vitamins for the first months after a sleeve gastrectomy had a choice that ended mid-thought, carry a tablet through undissolved, which a student rightly flagged as reading like a missing word. It is now a full sentence: the small, fast-emptying stomach can move a tablet along before it dissolves. No correct answer changed, so past attempts keep their score.
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The Cullen sign card blanks both bruising signs, the T-tube card asks for a volume in mL, and the postpartum mood card is a focused two-way comparison. more ▾less ▴
Three flashcards were rebuilt on student suggestions. The pancreatitis card that asked for the name of the bruising around the umbilicus also printed Grey-Turner on the front, so only one sign was left to recall; both signs are now blanks and you name each one. The T-tube card that asked how much bile normally drains in the first day now says mL after the blank, so it is clear the card wants a volume and not a colour, and the back adds how the output should fall over the next days and the amount worth reporting. The postpartum mood card that packed blues, depression and psychosis onto one card with a paragraph on the back is now a focused blues-versus-depression comparison, the shape that has measurably worked best in our decks.
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4Sep · Fri
39 surgery classification questions read like the exam
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All thirty-nine classification of surgery questions are rewritten to board shape: shorter scenarios, four plausible choices with a named runner-up, and explanations that open with the answer. more ▾less ▴
Every practice question in classification of surgery was rewritten in one pass. The scenario is cut to the point, with the average stem down from fifty-three words to twenty-four, so you read the finding and the ask, not a story. The four choices are now equally plausible on one axis, with one wrong choice that a well-prepared nurse could genuinely argue for, and the explanation names that choice and says what separates it from the answer. Each explanation opens by saying why the correct answer is correct, then gives the rule you can carry to the next question, then takes the other choices one by one without ranking them or commenting on how they sound. No sentence runs past twenty-eight words, and no explanation is longer than the one it replaced. One question that repeated a hernia repair six other questions already covered now asks about a paracentesis instead, a procedure the bank had never tested. Answer keys did not change, so past attempts keep their score.
Ninety-six explanations now lead with the answer
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Ninety-six explanations, mostly in community health and the health laws, now open with why the answer is right and explain every choice in short sentences. more ▾less ▴
Ninety-six practice questions across thirty-three topics have new explanations. Most of them are in community health nursing: the Philippine health laws and the workforce laws, the national programs, immunization, nutrition, sanitation and environmental health, health education and research, epidemiology and vital statistics, and school and occupational health. The rest are single questions scattered through the clinical topics, from autonomic dysreflexia and seizure precipitants to insulin storage and bisphosphonate dosing. Each explanation now opens by saying why the correct answer is correct, in plain clinical or legal terms, then gives the rule you can carry to the next question, then walks through every other choice one by one, saying what it gets right before saying why it still loses. No sentence runs past twenty-eight words. The old sentence that compared the wrong choices to each other is gone from all ninety-six. Where an explanation names a Republic Act, a section or a year, it is the one the question already taught, and we checked every statute name against the rest of the bank in both its long and short form. Two explanations were also corrected on the way through. One had read as if the Magna Carta for Disabled Persons itself granted the twenty percent discount, when it is the 2016 amendment that does. One had narrowed the HIV law's confidentiality exception to a court order, when the law, a neighbouring question and the Nurse Law cram sheet all say a court order or subpoena. No question, no choice and no correct answer changed, so past attempts keep their score.
New Nurse Law cram sheet; three sheets rebuilt
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The PH Health System cram sheet is rebuilt in the newer layout, three pages longer, with the health zone versus provider network, PhilHealth dependents, the Ottawa Charter and the deployment programs added. more ▾less ▴
The PH Health System, UHC and Primary Health Care cram sheet has been rebuilt in the newer layout, growing from eighteen pages to twenty-one. Every teaching box now opens with a short label on the left and then gives the claim, the reason, what to do, the trap and what the exam is really asking, and every list is set out as bullets instead of one long line. The four half-empty pages are gone. It also carries content the shelf did not have before: the inter-local health zone beside the health care provider network and the province-wide health system, so you can tell the three apart in a stem; who counts as a PhilHealth dependent and the two numbers behind lifetime membership; the Ottawa Charter with its five action areas and its three strategies; Doctors to the Barrios, the nurse deployment program, community health teams and the barangay health emergency response team; and a closing table that reads eight typical stems and names the answer. Two small errors were corrected on the way: the FHSIS is the Field Health Services Information System, and the barangay assembly is not the Katarungang Pambarangay, which settles disputes.
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The Perioperative sheet is rebuilt in the newer layout, six pages longer, with the sedation continuum, the wound classes, gloving, skin preparation and the operating-room numbers added. more ▾less ▴
The Perioperative Nursing cram sheet has had the same rebuild, growing from twenty-five pages to thirty-one. The teaching boxes now read in the label, claim, reason, action, trap and exam-point pattern, every long table cell is a short list, and the near-blank last page is gone. It also gained sections the sheet never had: the continuum of sedation from minimal sedation to general anesthesia, with the exam point that a patient can slide one level deeper than intended; the four surgical wound classes from clean to dirty, with the infection rate each one carries; closed versus open gloving and when each is used; how the skin is prepared before the incision, working outward and never back over a prepared area; the numbers for the operating room itself, its temperature, humidity, air pressure and air changes, the neutral zone for passing sharps, and the tourniquet pressures and time limits; and captions under the two figures so that the semi-restricted zone and the Sign In, Time Out and Sign Out pauses can now be found by the sheet's search.
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The Postpartum, Newborn and Family Planning sheet is rebuilt in the newer layout, six pages longer, with readable diagram labels and the newborn resuscitation ladder, kangaroo care, the Filipino postpartum customs and the family planning counseling rules added. more ▾less ▴
The Postpartum, Newborn and Family Planning cram sheet is the third, growing from eighteen pages to twenty-four. The three labelled diagrams, the postpartum danger signs, caput versus cephalhematoma and where each family planning method works, have been re-drawn with labels large enough to read on a phone. The new content is the part of this topic the exam asks about and the sheet did not carry: the Filipino postpartum customs of binat, hilot and suob and how a nurse honors the rest while redirecting what harms; how to feed the breastfeeding mother; the mother-baby friendly hospital rules and the Ten Steps; hand expression and cup feeding for the baby who cannot suckle; that a mother with hepatitis B can breastfeed once her baby has had the immune globulin and the vaccine; how to prepare formula safely when it must be used; how to dry up milk, which medicines pass into milk and which stop breastfeeding, and what to do about flat or inverted nipples; Sheehan syndrome after a severe hemorrhage; the newborn resuscitation ladder, from the first minute to compressions; the weight classes of the small baby, the WHO grades of a cold baby and kangaroo mother care; the birth injuries behind an uneven Moro reflex; the TwoDay Method, the patch and the ring, and how the CycleBeads are read; the GATHER counseling steps and the rule against quotas; what to do after a missed pill; and the four WHO categories that say who may use which method.
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Earlier highlights on the three rebuilt sheets stay where you drew them, behind the clock icon in the toolbar. more ▾less ▴
If you had highlights on an earlier edition of any of those three sheets, they are exactly where you drew them. Tap the small clock icon in the sheet's toolbar to open the edition you marked up, and tap it again to come back to the new pages.
Fifty-two more explanations say what a choice does, not how it looks
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Fifty-two more explanations stopped judging a wrong choice by how it looks, or by whether a nurse could defend it, and say what it clinically does instead. more ▾less ▴
Yesterday we took the ranking commentary out of two hundred and eighteen explanations. Checking our work afterwards turned up the same habit wearing a different sleeve, in fifty-two more. Thirty-five of them judged a wrong choice by how it comes across rather than by what it does: the equipment and the extra staff make this look safe, stopping to feel for a pulse sounds like careful reassessment, an oil-based ointment feels protective. Those now say the clinical thing instead. The slide board and the second person are the correct equipment for a transfer, but nothing has established that this client may be moved at all. Same verdict, and now you can see the reasoning. Fourteen more delivered a verdict on the nurse instead of on the choice, saying a nurse could reasonably start there or could fairly defend it. In almost every one of those the sentence already gave you the real clinical reason right beside it, so the comment about the nurse simply went and everything else stayed. As before, no question, no choice and no correct answer changed. Only the explanation underneath.
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Three select-all questions had a closing line that still ranked the wrong statements; it now names only which statements are true. more ▾less ▴
The last three were select-all questions whose closing line still ranked the wrong statements against each other, calling one the easiest of the wrong steps to trust or the one that raises the most alarm of the wrong entries. Those closings now do one job only: they name which statements are true, so you can see which combination follows. The reasoning has moved onto the statement itself, where it is useful, so the wrong statement tells you what is genuinely right about it and then where it goes wrong. These three had survived our earlier passes because of how the sentence was built, not because anyone judged them acceptable: our checks looked for a closing that counted the choices, and these named the wrong ones instead. We have taught the check to see that wording, so the next one gets caught the first time.
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3Sep · Thu
218 explanations rewritten; one answer changed
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Two hundred and eighteen explanations stopped ranking the wrong choices for you and now say in clinical terms what is right about each one and what defeats it. more ▾less ▴
Two hundred and eighteen explanations have stopped commenting on the exam and gone back to teaching the nursing. The habit we removed was ranking the wrong choices for you: telling you which one was the closest competitor, which was the runner-up, which was the most tempting, which one a careful reader would fall for. None of that is nursing, it tells you how a question was built rather than how a patient is cared for, and it quietly trains you to hunt for the trap instead of thinking through the case. Every one of those explanations now does the same job the honest way. It grants what is genuinely right about each wrong choice, in clinical terms, and then says exactly what defeats it. Nothing about the questions themselves moved: the same wording, the same choices, the same correct answer. Only the explanation underneath changed, and only where it was talking about the test.
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Sixty four select all explanations now end by naming which statements are true, and each wrong statement carries its own reasoning. more ▾less ▴
Sixty four of those explanations were on select all questions, where the change is easier to see. Those used to end by picking out which wrong statement was the most tempting of the set, a line that judged how a statement feels rather than what it says. The closing line now does one thing only: it names which statements are true, so you can see which combination follows. The reasoning that used to sit in that closing line has moved to where it is actually useful, onto the statement itself, so the wrong statement now tells you what is genuinely right about it and then where it goes wrong. Every numbered statement is still quoted exactly as it appears in the question.
30 new pregnancy questions; 54 long ones shortened
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Fifty-four pregnancy questions are about half their old length, with the same choices, answer and explanation. more ▾less ▴
Fifty-four questions in those same two topics have had their wording cut down, from about sixty-two words to about thirty-five. Nothing else about them moved: the same choices, the same correct answer, the same explanation. What went was the story around the question, the scene-setting you had to read through before the actual question arrived. Every clinical detail that any choice depends on is still there, and that is not a promise, it is the thing we checked hardest. Each shortened question was read by someone who had not written it, whose only job was to confirm that it still has exactly one best answer and that nothing a choice relies on had been cut away. A handful came back where the explanation still mentioned a detail the shortening had removed, and every one of those was put right before any of this went live.
14 liver questions now argue the close call
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The fourteen new liver questions now name the wrong choice you were most likely to pick, admit what is right about it, and give the one fact that rules it out. more ▾less ▴
The fourteen new questions added to the liver, gallbladder and pancreas topic earlier today have had their explanations reworked. Two things were off. First, each one spent a line restating that the correct choice was correct, which every other question in the bank does in its own section already, and which our own quality checker rejects. That line is gone. Second, and more useful to you, none of them did the thing our explanations are supposed to do: take the wrong choice you were most likely to pick, admit what is genuinely right about it, and then give you the one fact that rules it out. All fourteen now do. So instead of the lipase question simply saying amylase is wrong, it grants that amylase does rise in pancreatitis and then tells you why lipase is the one that settles it. That is the part worth reading twice.
427 more explanations now say why wrong choices fail
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Four hundred and twenty-seven explanations no longer rank the wrong choices against one another; each now gives the clinical reason instead. Answer keys unchanged. more ▾less ▴
Four hundred and twenty-seven practice questions across forty-five subtopics, with about twenty-four thousand recorded answers between them, now carry rewritten answer explanations. They cover asthma in children, diabetes, shock and sepsis, critical care equipment, electrolyte imbalances, laboratory values, blood disorders, skin conditions, the bowel and its absorption, the sick child's kidneys, crisis intervention, personality disorders, community mental health, family nursing, nutrition programmes, disease reporting law, nursing research, cancers by site, postpartum complications, the operating room, and more. Sentences that ranked the wrong choices against one another, calling one the most tempting or the closest competitor or the runner-up, are gone from every one of them. In their place each wrong choice is granted what it genuinely gets right and is then met with the clinical fact that rules it out. Questions, choices and answer keys are unchanged, so every result you have already recorded still stands.
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On most of these questions the ranking sentence was the only explanation the wrong choices had, so for more than a hundred of them this is the first real reason they have ever carried. more ▾less ▴
Something we did not expect turned up while we were doing it, and it is worth telling you about. On most of these questions the ranking sentence was not merely clumsy, it was the only thing standing in for an explanation of the wrong choice at all. On one batch of items it was six out of eight, on another eight out of nine, on another eleven out of twelve. Those questions had a sentence telling you which wrong answer was the closest, and nothing telling you what was right about it or why it still fails. So for well over a hundred of these, this is not a rewrite of an explanation you already had. It is the first time the question explains its runner-up to you at all.
Protein in liver encephalopathy: an outdated rule fixed
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A gallstone question whose correct choice simply repeated the wording of the question itself now asks you to pick the pattern that fits, and two inaccurate details were corrected while we were in there. more ▾less ▴
One gallstone question was giving away its own answer. The question described pain that came on after fatty food and spread to the right shoulder, then asked which finding best supported gallstones, and the correct choice simply said the pain was triggered by fatty meals. You could match the wording and be right without knowing anything about gallbladders. The question now describes the attacks without naming what brings them on, and asks which extra detail from her history would support gallstones; the four choices are now four different patterns of what sets a pain off or settles it, one for gallstones, one for an ulcer, one for a bowel cause and one for reflux. The answer letter did not change. Along the way we removed two things the old version implied that are not true: night pain does not argue against gallstones, and biliary pain is steady rather than cramping despite the word colic.
Liver and pancreas: 14 new questions, 30 shortened
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Thirty long questions on the liver, gallbladder and pancreas now run about thirty-four words instead of fifty-eight, with every clinical fact kept and the choices, answers and explanations untouched. more ▾less ▴
Thirty questions in the same topic have been shortened. The typical one ran fifty-eight words and now runs thirty-four. What came out was the story around the question: the admission background, the family at the bedside, the ward being short of staff, and the vitals that no choice actually turns on. What stayed is every fact you need to answer: every age, temperature, pulse, blood pressure, oxygen reading, pain score, drug, dose, timing and finding, in the same values as before. The four choices, the correct answer and the explanation on all thirty are untouched, so anything you have already answered still stands and your results are unaffected. Three of the thirty needed a second pass, because a clause that looked like background turned out to be the one thing ruling out a wrong answer, and those clauses are back in. One question was left long on purpose: shortening it would not have fixed a problem it already had, and that one needs its choices rewritten instead, which is a separate job.
New cram sheets: Sick Child B and Reproductive Health
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Where current guidance and the classic board answer disagree, the sheet prints both and labels them, the way it does on every sheet: paracetamol does not prevent a febrile seizure from coming back, a seizure is treated as status epilepticus at five minutes rather than thirty, the steroid course for nephrotic syndrome by the 2021 kidney guideline, the imaging a first urinary infection now gets, no antibiotics and no antidiarrheals in hemolytic uremic syndrome, hydroxyurea for sickle cell disease from nine months of age, the desmopressin nasal spray for bedwetting withdrawn, lindane no longer recommended for lice or scabies, the Ponseti method against the older casting, and the scoliosis thresholds. Every topic that lives on another sheet says so, so the adult blood disorders stay on Hematology and Oncology, the seizure drugs on Neuro A, cast care and Duchenne on Musculoskeletal, dialysis on Renal and Urinary, the fontanel calendar on Growth and Development, and the heart, airway and gut of the sick child on Sick Child A.
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Where current guidance and the classic board answer disagree, the sheet prints both and labels them: the 2021 semen values beside the twenty million that review books still teach, sperm surviving up to five days beside the forty-eight to seventy-two hours, letrozole beside clomiphene for ovulation, the current position on hormone therapy at menopause beside the older no longer recommended, and the six hour window for a twisted testis beside the four hours in the textbook. Every topic that lives on another sheet says so, so the family planning methods stay on Postpartum, the prenatal tests on Antepartum, the two tracts and the hormone curves on Anatomy and Physiology Core, the infections on Infectious and Immunologic, and the cancers on Hematology and Oncology.
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2Sep · Wed
220 more explanations rewritten; repeats removed
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Two hundred and thirteen explanations no longer rank the wrong choices against one another; each now gives the clinical reason instead. Answer keys unchanged. more ▾less ▴
Two hundred and thirteen practice questions across eighteen subtopics, about twelve and a half thousand recorded answers between them, now carry rewritten answer explanations. They cover hearing loss and ear assessment, therapeutic communication, somatic and behavioral therapies, antidiuretic hormone disorders, thyroid and parathyroid disorders, infectious and immunologic disorders, peripheral neuropathies, autonomic dysreflexia, Guillain-Barre syndrome, increased intracranial pressure, oncologic emergencies and cancer treatment, the normal puerperium, tuberculosis, and health education in the community. Sentences that ranked the wrong choices against one another, calling one the most tempting or the closest competitor, are gone from all of them. In their place each wrong choice is granted what it genuinely gets right and then met with the clinical fact that rules it out. Every rewrite was checked line by line so no dose, law or clinical fact was lost, then read end to end by four reviewers who had not written it, and the corrections from that review were re-checked before anything went live. Questions, choices and answer keys are unchanged, so every result you have already recorded still stands.
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Seven explanations that called a wrong choice the closest miss were reworded, and the phrase is now on our watch list. more ▾less ▴
Seven more explanations that called a wrong choice the closest miss were reworded the same way. That phrase had slipped past the earlier rewrites because it matched none of the wording we were searching for, so it is now on the list, and the whole bank was swept for it. One of the seven had already been revised once and kept the sentence until now.
The word trap is gone from one hundred and sixty-three explanations
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One hundred and sixty-three explanations no longer call a wrong choice the trap; clinical uses of the word stay, and answer keys are unchanged. more ▾less ▴
One hundred and sixty-three practice questions across sixty subtopics, about nineteen thousand recorded answers between them, had their explanations reworded to drop one more habit of ours: calling a wrong choice the trap. Phrases like "this is the trap", "the classic trap" or "the strongest trap on the page" described how the question was built rather than the nursing, and every one of them is gone. Where the explanation already gave the clinical reason the choice fails, the label was simply removed; where it did not, the reason now stands in its place. The word trap stays wherever it is real clinical language, such as air trapping in the lungs or the water trap on ventilator tubing, and seven questions were deliberately left alone for that reason. A small follow-up the same day removed three stray phrasings the first pass could not see, including "a closely competing option" and "the closest wrong time point", while keeping the word mistaught in the three explanations where it names a genuine clinical misconception rather than ranking a choice. Every rewrite was checked line by line so no dose, law or clinical fact was lost, then read end to end by reviewers who had not written it. Questions, choices and answer keys are unchanged, so every result you have already recorded still stands.
New cram sheets: Sick Child A and Infectious Disorders
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Where current guidance and the classic board answer disagree, the sheet prints both and labels them, the way it does on every sheet: mist against the single dose of dexamethasone for croup, chest indrawing as pneumonia treated at home rather than an automatic referral, no bronchodilators for bronchiolitis, the 2024 Kawasaki update, and the moderate to high risk column of the Jones criteria. And every topic that lives on another sheet says so, so the IMCI tables stay on Immunization, MCH and Nutrition, the newborn stays on Postpartum and Newborn, and the blood, cancer, kidney, brain and bone problems of childhood wait for Sick Child B.
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Where current guidance and the classic board answer disagree, both are printed and labeled: the single injection that now treats gonorrhea against the older pair of drugs, doxycycline against azithromycin for chlamydia, the seven day course for trichomoniasis, the rapid confirmatory tests against the older ELISA and Western blot, the 2019 lupus score against the four of eleven, and the day you may leave isolation after COVID-19. Hepatitis keeps its full table on the Nutrition and GI sheet, so here it appears only from the infection control side, and the joints of rheumatoid arthritis, Guillain-Barre and the inflammatory bowel diseases stay on the sheets that own them with a pointer from this one.
Your study plan can now cover only the exam sections you still need
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A plan that skips sections also unlocks the matching mock board sections without finishing the earlier ones. more ▾less ▴
When your plan leaves out some sections, the mock boards no longer make you finish the earlier sections first. A student whose plan covers Day 2 only can open NP4 and NP5 on any mock board straight away.
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