NCHK RN(G) LE study guide
NCHK RN(G) LE · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The Registered Nurse (General) Licensing Examination, administered by the Nursing Council of Hong Kong (NCHK), is the route by which nurses trained outside Hong Kong, or graduates of non-Council-approved programmes, demonstrate that they meet the standard required to practise as a registered nurse (general) in Hong Kong. It is a professional licensure assessment, not a university course: passing it signals to employers and the public that you can apply nursing knowledge safely and make sound clinical judgements in a Hong Kong context. The NCHK RN(G) LE study guide has 9 sections and about 4,229 words.
01Professional Nursing Practice and Ethics
This domain tests whether you can reason as a registered nurse rather than recite values. Stems are usually scenarios: a competent adult refusing treatment, a colleague practising outside scope, a relative demanding information, or a doctor's order you believe is unsafe.
510 words, about 3 min02Fundamentals of Nursing and Basic Nursing Skills
Fundamentals items reward precision: exact ranges, exact sequences, exact calculations. The paper often pairs a skill with a safety check, such as which observation must be made before a nasogastric feed, or which action invalidates a sterile field.
451 words, about 2 min03Medical-Surgical Nursing
Medical-surgical items dominate the paper. They rarely ask for a definition; they ask you to prioritise, to interpret a trend, or to predict the next complication.
475 words, about 2 min04Maternal and Child Health Nursing
This domain spans antenatal, intrapartum, postnatal and neonatal care plus paediatrics. Questions are usually about recognising the abnormal and acting within minutes, or about the safety check that prevents a neonatal or maternal injury.
489 words, about 2 min05Mental Health Nursing
Mental health items test assessment, risk management and the safe use of psychotropic drugs. The exam favours the least restrictive intervention that maintains safety, and it expects you to take physical symptoms in a person with mental illness seriously rather than dismissing them as psychosomatic.
446 words, about 2 min06Community and Public Health Nursing
Community items test population-level reasoning as well as home-based clinical judgement. You will be asked to classify a prevention activity, interpret a rate, decide whether a screening result matters, or sequence an outbreak response.
487 words, about 2 min07Gerontological and Rehabilitation Nursing
This domain tests whether you can distinguish normal ageing from illness, and whether you can organise care around function rather than around the diagnosis. Older adults present atypically, and the exam repeatedly rewards the candidate who investigates a new change instead of explaining it away as age.
484 words, about 2 min08Pharmacology and Medication Management
Pharmacology items are calculation-heavy and safety-heavy. The exam expects exact arithmetic, correct unit conversion and recognition of high-alert drugs.
445 words, about 2 min09Nursing Law, Regulation and Infection Control
This domain combines the statutory framework you practise under with the precautions that stop transmission. Questions frequently join the two, for example a needlestick injury, an isolation decision, or a delegation that is unsafe.
442 words, about 2 min