Fiji Nursing Registration Exam study materials
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Fiji Nursing Registration Exam study plan

Fiji Nursing Registration Exam · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

Medical-Surgical Nursing (Adult Health)

  • Map the Domain 3 blueprint into cardiovascular, respiratory, endocrine, renal, neurological, gastrointestinal and musculoskeletal blocks, and allocate a study slot to each.

  • Explain the pathophysiology, assessment findings and nursing priorities for acute coronary syndrome, heart failure and hypertension using a written systems template.

  • Calculate and interpret fluid balance, mean arterial pressure and oxygen delivery values in five worked adult-health scenarios.

  • Identify the five most common deterioration cues in adult inpatients and state the escalation action for each.

Your checkpoint

A one-page adult-health systems map plus 30 self-written case-based questions on cardiovascular and respiratory nursing, scored and reviewed.

Week 2

Medical-Surgical Nursing (Adult Health) & Pharmacology and Medication Safety

  • Compare insulin preparations, oral hypoglycaemics and anticoagulants on onset, monitoring parameters and reversal or rescue actions.

  • Apply the rights of medication administration and the Fiji-relevant high-alert medicine checks to ten simulated orders.

  • Explain nursing management of diabetic ketoacidosis, chronic kidney disease and post-operative pain using a structured care plan.

  • Distinguish adverse drug reactions from side effects and state the reporting action for each.

Your checkpoint

A medication safety table covering 15 high-alert drugs with monitoring and rescue actions, plus 25 pharmacology calculations completed with 90% accuracy.

Week 3

Professional, Ethical and Legal Nursing Practice & Fiji Health System, Primary Health Care and Nursing Regulation

  • Summarise the legal duties of a registered nurse in Fiji covering consent, confidentiality, documentation, mandatory reporting and scope of practice.

  • Apply an ethical decision-making framework to four scenarios involving refusal of treatment, resource scarcity and cultural safety.

  • Describe the structure of Fiji's health services from divisional hospitals to nursing stations and the referral pathway between them.

  • Explain primary health care principles and how they shape nursing practice in iTaukei, Indo-Fijian and remote maritime communities.

Your checkpoint

A two-page legal and ethical decision aid with four worked scenarios, plus a labelled diagram of the Fiji referral pathway.

Week 4

Maternal and Newborn Health / Midwifery-Related Care & Child Health / Paediatric Nursing

  • Sequence antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal nursing assessments, including danger-sign screening at each contact.

  • Explain the management priorities for postpartum haemorrhage, pre-eclampsia and obstructed labour before referral.

  • Describe newborn resuscitation steps, immediate newborn care and breastfeeding support in the first hour.

  • Apply IMCI-style assessment and classification to five sick-child scenarios covering pneumonia, diarrhoea and malnutrition.

Your checkpoint

A maternal and child health quick-reference card covering ten danger signs with actions, self-tested against 40 mixed questions.

Week 5

Fundamentals of Nursing and Basic Care & Infection Prevention and Control

  • Perform and document a full head-to-toe assessment, pressure injury risk scoring and falls risk assessment on a written case.

  • Explain asepsis, hand hygiene moments, standard and transmission-based precautions, and safe sharps and waste handling.

  • Describe sterilisation and disinfection principles and the correct use of personal protective equipment in a resource-limited setting.

  • Outline wound assessment and dressing selection for clean, contaminated and infected wounds.

Your checkpoint

A completed written care plan for one simulated patient including assessment, risk scores, infection precautions and wound care rationale.

Week 6

Mental Health Nursing & Emergency, Critical Care and Perioperative Nursing

  • Assess mental state systematically and distinguish psychosis, depression, mania and delirium in six written vignettes.

  • Explain therapeutic communication, de-escalation and suicide risk assessment, and state the legal framework for involuntary care.

  • Sequence the primary and secondary survey in trauma and the first five minutes of adult and paediatric resuscitation.

  • Describe perioperative nursing responsibilities across pre-operative preparation, intra-operative safety and post-anaesthetic recovery.

Your checkpoint

A mental health and emergency response sheet containing a mental state examination template, a de-escalation ladder and a resuscitation checklist.

Week 7

Community and Public Health Nursing & Nursing Leadership, Management and Quality Improvement

  • Explain communicable and non-communicable disease control priorities in Fiji, including dengue, leptospirosis, typhoid, diabetes and hypertension.

  • Design a community health education session with defined audience, key messages, delivery method and evaluation measure.

  • Apply the quality improvement cycle to one clinical problem and identify the indicators, data source and audit method.

  • Describe leadership, delegation, conflict resolution and incident reporting responsibilities of a nurse in charge.

Your checkpoint

A one-page community health education plan plus a quality improvement project outline with three measurable indicators.

Week 8

Professional, Ethical and Legal Nursing Practice & Medical-Surgical Nursing (Adult Health) & Pharmacology and Medication Safety

  • Complete two full-length timed mock examinations under exam conditions and record the score for every domain.

  • Analyse every incorrect answer to identify whether the error was knowledge, misreading or prioritisation, and rewrite the reasoning.

  • Re-drill the three weakest domains using targeted question sets until each reaches a self-set accuracy threshold.

  • Consolidate a single revision sheet of high-yield facts, formulas and danger-sign algorithms for final review.

Your checkpoint

Two scored mock exams with a written error analysis and a final one-page high-yield revision sheet.

Milestones

Week 2: Score at least 70% on a self-made 40-question set drawn from Domains 3 and 8, with every calculation item correct.

Week 4: Explain aloud, without notes, the danger signs and first actions for postpartum haemorrhage, pre-eclampsia and severe childhood pneumonia.

Week 6: Score at least 65% across mixed sets from Domains 1, 2, 6 and 10, and complete a full mental state examination from memory.

Week 8: Achieve at least 70% overall on both timed mock exams with no domain below 60%, and submit the error analysis and revision sheet.