Part of the expanding PassProfessor catalog: This program is built — 930 original practice questions covering the full scope of a medical-surgical nursing I course, organized chapter by chapter — and it opens soon. Join the notify list and we will email you the day it launches.
This program is part of the expanding PassProfessor catalog — join the notify list and we’ll email you when enrollment opens.
PassProfessor’s Medical-Surgical Nursing I program is a chapter-simulation program for students taking a medical-surgical nursing I course. You pick the course, then pick the textbook and edition your class uses, and the program builds chapter-based simulation exams optimized for that book’s chapter order — so the practice you do this week matches the chapter your instructor is teaching this week. The bank holds 930 original questions across 10 chapters plus three Medical-Surgical Nursing in Depth sets spanning the course’s perioperative, balance, and body-system material, plus applied and synthesis sets, covering professional practice and clinical judgment as coursework concepts, health history and physical assessment of the adult patient, perioperative concepts, fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base balance, and the cardiovascular, respiratory, hematologic and immune, endocrine and metabolic, and gastrointestinal and hepatic disorder blocks. There is no licensing exam at the end of a medical-surgical nursing I course — there is your instructor’s exam, chapter by chapter — and this program is built to rehearse exactly that.
PassProfessor’s Medical-Surgical Nursing I program is a chapter-simulation program for the undergraduate medical-surgical nursing course: 930 original practice questions across 10 chapters plus three Medical-Surgical Nursing in Depth sets, an applied set, and a synthesis set, organized by textbook and edition so chapter drills and timed simulation exams match the chapter your instructor is teaching. Practice stays at course scope — the concepts and reasoning frameworks the course teaches, rehearsed as coursework. It rehearses your instructor’s chapter tests and finals — there is no licensing exam for a college course — with results reported by chapter.
What this program is — and what it is not
It is a simulation of your course, not a licensing product. Licensing-exam prep rehearses one fixed, official exam. A college course works differently: your instructor chooses the textbook, sets the chapter order, and writes the exams. This program is designed around that reality. The textbook-and-edition selector aligns the simulations to the chapter sequence of the book your course actually uses, and chapter drills let you practice one chapter at a time, at the point in the semester when you need it.
It is not published, sponsored, or endorsed by any textbook publisher or author. PassProfessor is an independent study provider. The program is never branded or titled under a textbook’s name, and nothing in it reproduces textbook text, textbook figures, or a publisher’s test bank. Selecting your textbook only tells the program which chapter order to organize your practice around.
Every question is original. The bank was built from the published structure of a medical-surgical nursing I course — the standard chapter sequence and topic scope the discipline itself uses — and every stem, scenario, and answer option was written from scratch and checked against verified disciplinary facts. Sources supplied facts and course structure only; the questions are ours.
What’s included
930 questions, organized the way your course is organized. The bank follows a 10-chapter structure that mirrors the standard medical-surgical nursing I course, from professional practice and clinical judgment through gastrointestinal and hepatic disorders, plus three Medical-Surgical Nursing in Depth sets spanning the course’s perioperative, balance, and body-system material, plus applied and synthesis sets. The full chapter-by-chapter breakdown is in the coverage table below.
Chapter drills. Practice a single chapter — only that chapter — until the misses stop repeating. Finished the fluid and electrolyte lectures? Drill that chapter until reading a described balance pattern in coursework terms feels automatic. Cardiovascular test in ten days? Work the cardiovascular chapter in sequence, the way your course presents it.
Chapter-based simulation exams. When a chapter test or a unit exam approaches, sit a timed simulation built from the chapters it covers, in the proportions your selected textbook’s organization suggests. Simulations draw questions you have not seen first, so a second or third run at the same chapter is a fresh test, not a memory exercise.
A textbook-and-edition selector. Different textbooks divide the same material into chapters differently — one book’s single chapter is another book’s two. When you select the textbook and edition your course uses, the program maps its bank onto that book’s chapter organization, so the chapter number in your practice means the same chapter in your syllabus.
Results broken down by chapter and topic. Your practice results report by chapter, so a weak area — say, acid-base balance, or perioperative concepts — shows up in your data while there is still time to fix it, not for the first time on a graded exam.
A note on editions and course versions. Instructors adopt different textbooks and different editions of the same textbook, and departments periodically revise the course itself. The bank’s organization follows the discipline’s standard chapter structure — the sequence the field itself teaches — and the selector maps that structure onto your edition’s numbering, so a chapter that your book splits in two, or merges into one, still lines up with the practice built for it. Where an instructor reorders chapters, chapter drills can be assembled in your course’s order; the practice follows the syllabus, not the other way around.
The course at a glance
Medical-Surgical Nursing I has no single official exam, so there is no official exam-facts table to publish — your instructor’s syllabus is the authority for your course’s test dates, formats, and grading. What is standard is the scope of the discipline itself, summarized here as course background. For the full picture of what a medical-surgical nursing I course covers and how to study it, see our Medical-Surgical Nursing I study guide.
| Undergraduate medical-surgical nursing I — the course this program simulates | |
|---|---|
| Course type | Undergraduate nursing college course (the first medical-surgical nursing course in a nursing program sequence; prerequisites, placement in the sequence, and any laboratory or clinical components vary by institution and program) |
| Standard scope | Professional practice and clinical judgment in medical-surgical nursing, as coursework concepts; health history and physical assessment of the adult patient; perioperative care concepts — preoperative and intraoperative management; perioperative care concepts — postoperative management and pain; fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base balance; management concepts for cardiovascular disorders; management concepts for respiratory disorders; management concepts for hematologic and immune disorders; management concepts for endocrine and metabolic disorders; management concepts for gastrointestinal and hepatic disorders |
| How the course is assessed | Instructor-set chapter tests, unit exams, and a final — formats and weights vary by instructor and institution |
| This program’s bank | 930 original questions across 10 chapters + Medical-Surgical Nursing in Depth, applied, and synthesis sets |
| Program format | Chapter drills and chapter-based simulation exams, organized by your selected textbook/edition |
How the practice maps to the course
Every question in the bank carries the chapter it belongs to. Counts below are the bank itself, counted question by question from the delivered file — they sum to 930.
| Chapter | Practice questions |
|---|---|
| Ch 1 — Professional Practice and Clinical Judgment in Medical-Surgical Nursing | 48 |
| Ch 2 — Health History and Physical Assessment of the Adult Patient | 50 |
| Ch 3 — Perioperative Care: Preoperative and Intraoperative Management | 48 |
| Ch 4 — Perioperative Care: Postoperative Management and Pain | 47 |
| Ch 5 — Fluid, Electrolyte, and Acid-Base Balance: Nursing Management | 49 |
| Ch 6 — Management of Patients With Cardiovascular Disorders | 51 |
| Ch 7 — Management of Patients With Respiratory Disorders | 50 |
| Ch 8 — Management of Patients With Hematologic and Immune Disorders | 47 |
| Ch 9 — Management of Patients With Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders | 47 |
| Ch 10 — Management of Patients With Gastrointestinal and Hepatic Disorders | 50 |
| Medical-Surgical Nursing in Depth I | 96 |
| Medical-Surgical Nursing in Depth II | 97 |
| Medical-Surgical Nursing in Depth III | 88 |
| Applied Analysis | 61 |
| Synthesis and Integration | 101 |
| Total | 930 |
Depth follows the bank’s own structure: the Synthesis and Integration set (101 questions) is the bank’s largest single set, and the three depth sets together revisit every core chapter at second-pass difficulty — this course is graded on applying concepts to described situations, and the bank’s weight sits where cumulative finals sit.
How to use it
- Join the notify list today. When the program opens, set up your course first: select Medical-Surgical Nursing I, then select the textbook and edition your syllabus names.
- Drill the chapter you are in. After each lecture block, drill that chapter while the material is current. Short, chapter-matched practice beats a single long session the night before the test.
- Watch your chapter breakdown. Your results show which chapters are costing you. Return to the weakest chapter’s drill before moving on — medical-surgical nursing I builds system on system — the assessment and judgment vocabulary of the opening chapters becomes the working language of every disorder block, and balance reasoning is spent by all of them, so an early gap resurfaces wherever the course turns.
- Simulate before each graded test. In the days before a chapter test or unit exam, sit a timed simulation over exactly the chapters it covers. Practice the pacing and the question style, not just the facts.
- Use the integrated set before midterms and finals. The cross-chapter questions combine chapters the way cumulative exams do. They are the closest rehearsal for a final that reaches back to the start of the term.
Frequently asked questions
Is this a licensing exam prep program? No. Medical-Surgical Nursing I is a college course in a nursing program, not a licensed credential, and there is no official exam at the end of the course itself. This is a chapter-simulation program: it rehearses the tests your own instructor gives, chapter by chapter, using original questions built to the standard scope of the undergraduate course.
How many practice questions are in the program? The bank holds 930 original questions: the 10 chapters of the standard course, three Medical-Surgical Nursing in Depth sets, an applied-analysis set, and a synthesis set. Every question is tagged to its chapter, so drills and simulations can be built over exactly the chapters your test covers.
Is this program clinical advice or patient-care instruction? No. The program is study preparation for a college course — it rehearses the concepts, vocabulary, and reasoning frameworks the course teaches, presented as coursework. It does not instruct anyone in the care of any actual person, and decisions in real care settings belong to qualified professionals working under their own institutions’ direction, never to a practice program.
Which textbook does the program follow? The program is organized around the standard chapter structure of the medical-surgical nursing I course, and the textbook-and-edition selector maps the bank onto your book’s chapter order when you set up your course. No textbook is named, branded, or reproduced — the selector only aligns chapter numbering.
What is the difference between Medical-Surgical Nursing I and the courses that follow it? The numeral marks sequence: this is the first medical-surgical course in the program’s plan of study, covering the foundational systems and perioperative and balance material. Later courses in a sequence extend into additional systems and complexity, at a placement and pace that vary by institution and program.
Does the program include the laboratory or clinical parts of my course? No. The program rehearses the course’s concepts and described-situation reasoning in chapter-simulation form. Laboratory, simulation-laboratory, and clinical components are set by your institution, follow your instructor’s direction, and are not reproduced or replaced by chapter practice.
What are the in-depth, applied, and synthesis sets? Second-pass material. The in-depth sets revisit the course’s systems in three layered sets at finer distinction; the applied set presents compact coursework scenarios; the synthesis set combines chapters the way cumulative finals do — balance reasoning inside cardiovascular and respiratory scenarios, for example.
Can I practice just one chapter? Yes — that is the core of the design. Chapter drills draw only from the chapter you select, and simulation exams can be built over any set of chapters, so your practice can match a single chapter test, a unit exam, or a cumulative final.
My course orders the systems differently. Will the practice still line up? In most cases, yes. Programs differ mainly in the order systems are taken and in emphasis. The textbook selector maps the program’s chapters onto your book’s organization, and drills can be assembled in your course’s order when a sequence differs.
When can I start using the Medical-Surgical Nursing I program? Soon — the 930-question bank is complete and quality-checked, and the program is in final preparation. Join the notify list on this page and we will email you the day it opens.
Disclaimer
PassProfessor is an independent exam-preparation and study provider, based in Salt Lake City, UT and operating entirely online. This program is study preparation only: it is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any textbook publisher, textbook author, college, university, or instructor, and it reproduces no textbook content. Practice questions are original, written to the published structure and standard scope of a medical-surgical nursing I course; they are not questions from any instructor’s exam or any publisher’s test bank. Your course syllabus is the authority for your course’s schedule, formats, and grading.