Part of the expanding PassProfessor catalog: This program is built — 866 original practice questions covering the scope of a nursing fundamentals 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 Nursing Fundamentals program is a chapter-simulation program for students taking a college nursing fundamentals course — the foundational course where nursing students first learn the nursing process, patient assessment, safety and infection control, basic care skills, and how to think through patient care. 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 866 original questions across 16 chapters plus two integrated sets, covering the nursing profession and evidence-based practice, the nursing process and clinical judgment, communication, patient education, documentation, ethics, health and wellness, culture and caring, infection prevention, safety and mobility, vital signs and assessment, hygiene and comfort, oxygenation and fluid balance, nutrition and elimination, and perioperative and end-of-life care. There is no licensing exam at the end of a fundamentals course — there is your instructor’s exam, chapter by chapter — and this program is built to rehearse exactly that.
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 NCLEX prep. The NCLEX is a licensing examination taken after graduation; this program is for the fundamentals course itself, taken at the start of a nursing program. Students who need NCLEX preparation will find PassProfessor’s NCLEX programs in the nursing family — this college program does a different, earlier job: helping you learn and retain the foundational material your course exams test, while you are taking the course.
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 the nursing fundamentals 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 facts. Sources supplied facts and course structure only; the questions are ours.
What’s included
866 questions, organized the way your course is organized. The bank follows a 16-chapter structure that mirrors the standard nursing fundamentals course, from the nursing profession and the nursing process through infection prevention, safety and mobility, vital signs, and the core care concepts, plus an 83-question Synthesis and Applied Integration set and a 4-question Applied and Integrated Topics set that combine concepts across chapters the way cumulative exam questions do. The full chapter-by-chapter counts are in the coverage table below — counted from the bank itself, question by question.
Chapter drills. Practice a single chapter — only that chapter — until the misses stop repeating. Finished the infection prevention lectures? Drill Chapter 10. Vital signs test in ten days? Work Chapter 12 alongside the assessment chapters, the way your course presents them.
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 fundamentals textbooks divide the same material into chapters differently — one book’s single assessment 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 “Chapter 7” in your practice means Chapter 7 in your syllabus.
Results broken down by chapter. Your practice results report by chapter, so a weak area — say, documentation and handoff, or oxygenation and fluid balance — shows up in your data while there is still time to fix it, not for the first time on a graded exam.
The course at a glance
Nursing fundamentals 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 nursing fundamentals course covers and how to study it, see our Nursing Fundamentals study guide.
| Nursing fundamentals — the course this program simulates | |
|---|---|
| Course type | Foundational undergraduate nursing course (commonly the first clinical-foundations course in a nursing program) |
| Standard scope | The nursing profession and evidence-based practice; the nursing process — assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, evaluation — and clinical judgment; communication and the nurse-patient relationship; patient education and health literacy; documentation, informatics, and handoff; ethics, values, and legal responsibilities; health, wellness, and levels of prevention; culture, spirituality, and caring; infection prevention and control; patient safety, mobility, and activity; vital signs and physical assessment; hygiene, comfort, pain, and sleep; oxygenation, perfusion, and fluid balance; nutrition, elimination, and skin integrity; perioperative care, end-of-life care, and grief |
| How the course is assessed | Instructor-set chapter tests, unit exams, skills and lab work, and a final — formats and weights vary by instructor and institution |
| This program’s bank | 866 original questions across 16 chapters + Synthesis and Applied Integration + Applied and Integrated Topics |
| 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 866.
| Chapter | Practice questions |
|---|---|
| Chapter 1: The Nursing Profession and Evidence-Based Practice | 53 |
| Chapter 2: The Nursing Process: Assessment and Diagnosis | 48 |
| Chapter 3: Planning, Implementation, Evaluation, and Clinical Judgment | 53 |
| Chapter 4: Communication and the Nurse-Patient Relationship | 48 |
| Chapter 5: Patient Education and Health Literacy | 52 |
| Chapter 6: Documentation, Informatics, and Handoff Communication | 46 |
| Chapter 7: Ethics, Values, and Legal Responsibilities | 48 |
| Chapter 8: Health, Wellness, and Levels of Prevention | 47 |
| Chapter 9: Culture, Spirituality, and Caring Practice | 51 |
| Chapter 10: Infection Prevention and Control in Care Practice | 48 |
| Chapter 11: Patient Safety, Mobility, and Activity | 53 |
| Chapter 12: Vital Signs and Physical Assessment Concepts | 45 |
| Chapter 13: Hygiene, Comfort, Pain, and Sleep | 45 |
| Chapter 14: Oxygenation, Perfusion, and Fluid Balance — Nursing Care Concepts | 51 |
| Chapter 15: Nutrition, Elimination, and Skin Integrity — Nursing Care Concepts | 44 |
| Chapter 16: Perioperative Care, End-of-Life Care, and Grief | 47 |
| Synthesis and Applied Integration | 83 |
| Applied and Integrated Topics | 4 |
| Total | 866 |
Two blocks deserve a note. The nursing process chapters (Chapters 2 and 3, 101 questions combined) are the bank’s backbone in the same way they are the course’s backbone — assessment and diagnosis, then planning, implementation, evaluation, and clinical judgment are the framework every later care chapter is organized around, and fundamentals exams return to that framework constantly. The Synthesis and Applied Integration set (83 questions) deliberately combines chapters — weighing safety against autonomy, documentation against confidentiality, teaching readiness against a patient’s immediate condition — because that is how harder fundamentals questions are actually written: a single patient situation that asks you to hold two chapters’ principles at once and decide which one governs.
How to use it
- Join the notify list today. When the program opens, set up your course first: select Nursing Fundamentals, 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 — fundamentals builds on itself, and a shaky grip on the nursing process resurfaces in every care chapter that follows.
- 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 sets before midterms and finals. The Synthesis and Applied Integration and Applied and Integrated Topics questions combine chapters the way cumulative exams do. They are the closest rehearsal for a final that reaches back to the first weeks of the course.
Frequently asked questions
Is this a licensing exam prep program? No. Nursing fundamentals is a college course, not a licensed credential, and there is no official fundamentals exam to prepare for. 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 fundamentals course.
Is this NCLEX prep? No. This program supports the nursing fundamentals course you take early in your nursing program; the NCLEX is the licensing examination taken after graduation, and PassProfessor’s NCLEX programs live separately in the nursing family. This program’s job is the course itself — learning the foundational material well enough to pass your instructor’s chapter tests, unit exams, and final.
How many practice questions are in the Nursing Fundamentals program? 866 questions. They are organized into 16 chapters — from Chapter 1, The Nursing Profession and Evidence-Based Practice, through Chapter 16, Perioperative Care, End-of-Life Care, and Grief — plus an 83-question Synthesis and Applied Integration set and a 4-question Applied and Integrated Topics set that combine concepts across chapters. The chapter-by-chapter counts are published in the coverage table on this page and were counted directly from the question bank.
How does the textbook selector work? When the program opens, you first pick your course — Nursing Fundamentals — and then pick the textbook and edition your class uses. That selection tells the program how to organize the simulations: the bank is mapped onto your book’s chapter order, so chapter drills and simulation exams line up with the chapters as your syllabus presents them.
Is this program affiliated with my textbook’s publisher or author? No. PassProfessor is an independent study provider. The program is not published, sponsored, or endorsed by any textbook publisher or author, it is not branded under any textbook’s name, and it contains no textbook text and no publisher test-bank material. Your textbook selection is used only to organize your practice by chapter.
Where did the questions come from? They were written from scratch for this program. The bank was built from the published structure of the nursing fundamentals course — its standard chapter sequence and topic scope — and each question was checked against verified facts and passed through the college build lane’s quality control before delivery. No question is copied or adapted from a textbook, a test bank, or another provider.
What topics does the program cover? The standard scope of nursing fundamentals: the nursing profession and evidence-based practice; the nursing process and clinical judgment; communication and the nurse-patient relationship; patient education and health literacy; documentation, informatics, and handoff communication; ethics, values, and legal responsibilities; health, wellness, and levels of prevention; culture, spirituality, and caring practice; infection prevention and control; patient safety, mobility, and activity; vital signs and physical assessment; hygiene, comfort, pain, and sleep; oxygenation, perfusion, and fluid balance; nutrition, elimination, and skin integrity; and perioperative care, end-of-life care, and grief.
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 multi-chapter unit exam, or a cumulative final.
What are the Synthesis and Applied Integration questions? They are 83 questions, along with 4 Applied and Integrated Topics questions, that combine material from more than one chapter — for example, a situation where a patient’s safety need and a patient’s stated preference pull in different directions, and the question is which principle governs and how the nurse acts on it. Graded exams, especially midterms and finals, reward exactly this kind of connected, judgment-based thinking, so the bank practices it directly rather than only chapter by chapter.
Will this match my instructor’s exam exactly? No honest program can promise that — your instructor writes your exams, chooses the emphasis, and sets the format. What this program matches is the chapter organization and subject scope of your course, so the material you rehearse is the material your course teaches, organized the way your textbook presents it.
When can I start using the Nursing Fundamentals program? Soon — the 866-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 the nursing fundamentals course; they are not questions from any instructor’s exam or any publisher’s test bank, and this program is not NCLEX preparation. Your course syllabus is the authority for your course’s schedule, formats, and grading.