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Israel RN Licensure Exam study plan

Israel RN Licensure Exam · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 6 hours per week

Week 1

Internal Medicine Nursing (Adult Medical Nursing)

  • Map the Internal Medicine domain into 8 systems (cardiac, respiratory, renal/fluid-electrolyte, endocrine, GI/hepatic, hematology, neuro, infectious) and allocate a study slot to each

  • Explain the pathophysiology, assessment findings, and nursing priorities for heart failure, COPD exacerbation, and acute kidney injury without notes

  • Build a one-page lab interpretation card (CBC, BMP, ABG, cardiac markers, HbA1c) and self-quiz until you score 90% or higher

  • Answer 60 Internal Medicine practice items and log every error by system and error type (knowledge gap vs misread vs priority confusion)

Your checkpoint

A written 8-system study map plus an error log spreadsheet with at least 60 tagged items

Week 2

Internal Medicine Nursing (Adult Medical Nursing)

  • Apply a priority-setting framework (ABC, unstable-before-stable, acute-before-chronic) to at least 20 Internal Medicine scenarios and justify each choice in one sentence

  • Compare and contrast nursing management of diabetic ketoacidosis, hyperosmolar hyperglycemic state, and hypoglycemia in a comparison table

  • Teach back the monitoring and complication-prevention plan for a patient receiving blood transfusion, anticoagulation, and insulin

  • Re-attempt all week-1 error items and confirm at least 80% are now answered correctly

Your checkpoint

A 20-scenario priority reasoning worksheet with justified answers and a re-test score on week-1 errors

Week 3

Surgical Nursing (Perioperative and Postoperative Care)

  • Sequence the perioperative pathway from preadmission assessment through discharge and state the nurse's responsibility at each stage

  • Identify anesthesia-related and postoperative complications (airway, malignant hyperthermia, atelectasis, DVT, wound dehiscence, hemorrhage) and the first nursing action for each

  • Interpret postoperative monitoring data (vital signs trends, drain output, urine output, pain scores) and decide when to escalate

  • Answer 50 Surgical Nursing items and tag errors by phase of care (pre/intra/post)

Your checkpoint

A perioperative timeline poster with escalation triggers and a 50-item tagged error log

Week 4

Internal Medicine Nursing (Adult Medical Nursing) & Surgical Nursing (Perioperative and Postoperative Care)

  • Complete a timed 100-item mixed Internal Medicine and Surgical Nursing block under exam conditions

  • Analyze the block by domain and by cognitive level (recall vs application vs priority) and name your three weakest subareas

  • Rewrite your personal study schedule for weeks 5-8 to weight the weakest subareas identified

  • Recite the surgical wound, drain, and stoma assessment checklist from memory

Your checkpoint

A timed 100-item block score report with a written remediation plan for the three weakest subareas

Week 5

Maternal and Neonatal Nursing (Midwifery and Postpartum Care) & Pediatric Nursing

  • Trace normal labor, delivery, and the first postpartum hour and state the nurse's assessment and intervention priorities at each stage

  • Differentiate postpartum hemorrhage causes (uterine atony, retained placenta, laceration, coagulopathy) and the corresponding nursing actions

  • Explain neonatal adaptation, jaundice, hypoglycemia, and thermoregulation, and describe how to recognize deterioration in a newborn

  • Apply pediatric developmental and weight-based principles to medication calculation and fluid maintenance for at least 10 cases

  • Answer 60 combined Maternal/Neonatal and Pediatric items and tag errors by subarea

Your checkpoint

A maternal-newborn and pediatric quick-reference sheet plus a 60-item tagged error log

Week 6

Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing & Geriatric and Community Nursing

  • Perform a mental status and suicide-risk assessment using a structured framework and state the immediate safety actions for high risk

  • Distinguish therapeutic communication techniques from non-therapeutic ones and rewrite 10 non-therapeutic responses

  • Describe legal and ethical boundaries relevant to involuntary admission, restraint use, and confidentiality in the Israeli context

  • Assess an older adult for falls, delirium versus dementia, polypharmacy, and elder abuse, and plan community-based interventions

  • Answer 50 combined Mental Health and Geriatric/Community items and tag errors

Your checkpoint

A risk-assessment and community-referral decision sheet plus a 50-item tagged error log

Week 7

Emergency, Intensive Care and Critical Care Nursing & Pharmacology and Medication Safety

  • Run a systematic primary and secondary survey on 10 emergency scenarios and state the immediate intervention at each step

  • Interpret and act on hemodynamic and ventilatory data (ABG, lactate, MAP, capnography, ventilator alarms) in at least 15 critical care cases

  • Apply the rights of medication administration and high-alert medication safeguards (insulin, heparin, opioids, potassium) to 15 safety scenarios

  • Calculate weight-based and infusion-rate doses accurately on 20 practice problems with 100% accuracy before moving on

  • Answer 40 combined Emergency/Critical Care and Pharmacology items and tag errors

Your checkpoint

A high-alert medication double-check checklist plus a 40-item tagged error log with a 20/20 dose-calculation score

Week 8

Professional Ethics, Law and Nursing Regulation in Israel & Infection Control, Patient Safety and Quality Assurance & Internal Medicine Nursing (Adult Medical Nursing) & Surgical Nursing (Perioperative and Postoperative Care)

  • Summarize Israeli nursing regulation and professional obligations: licensure, scope of practice, documentation, informed consent, reporting duties, and patient rights

  • Apply infection-control precautions (standard, contact, droplet, airborne) and patient-safety practices (hand hygiene, identification, falls, pressure injury, handoff) to 15 scenarios

  • Complete two full timed 150-item mixed simulations covering all ten domains and review every incorrect answer

  • Consolidate all eight weeks of error logs into a top-20 weakness list and rehearse each item until you can explain it aloud

  • Write and rehearse a one-page exam-day plan covering timing, flagging strategy, and anxiety control

Your checkpoint

Two full-length simulation score reports, a consolidated top-20 weakness list, and a written exam-day plan

Milestones

Week 2: Score at least 75% on a 40-item Internal Medicine self-test and show that at least 80% of week-1 errors are corrected

Week 4: Score at least 70% on the timed 100-item Internal Medicine and Surgical block with a written remediation plan for the three weakest subareas

Week 6: Score at least 75% on a 50-item combined Maternal/Neonatal, Pediatric, Mental Health, and Geriatric/Community set

Week 7: Achieve 100% on the 20-item dose-calculation set and at least 75% on the 40-item Emergency/Critical Care and Pharmacology set

Week 8: Score at least 75% on both full-length 150-item simulations and demonstrate the consolidated top-20 weakness list is fully reviewed