PN Level 1 study plan

Map the NCLEX-PN Client Needs framework onto the nine domains and label each domain's percentage weight on a one-page weight sheet

Define the LPN/LVN role boundaries in delegation, supervision, and assignment-making, and list at least six tasks that may not be delegated to unlicensed assistive personnel

Rank a set of ten client scenarios by acuity using a stable-to-unstable decision rule, and justify each ranking in two sentences

Identify the chain of command and the SBAR structure used for reporting a change in client condition

Explain how case management, discharge planning, and referrals are initiated at the point of admission rather than at discharge

Apply standard precautions to every client contact and distinguish when transmission-based precautions (contact, droplet, airborne) are added

Sequence the correct donning and doffing order for personal protective equipment and state the point at which hand hygiene is performed in each step

Differentiate medical and surgical asepsis and give three procedures that require each

Select the appropriate handling, transport, and labeling of a laboratory specimen collected for a client on contact precautions

Describe safety measures for falls, restraints, seizure precautions, and fire response using the RACE and PASS sequences

Classify the major drug groups by mechanism, expected effect, and the three most clinically important adverse effects for each

Compute safe dose ranges, pediatric weight-based doses, and IV flow rates from supplied values with no calculator error

Interpret the rights of medication administration and identify the correct action when a dose, label, or order is unclear

Explain high-alert medication safeguards, including independent double checks for insulin, heparin, and opioid infusions

Match common antidotes and reversal agents to the drugs they counteract

Demonstrate the steps of peripheral IV insertion, maintenance, and site assessment, and list signs of infiltration, phlebitis, and extravasation with the immediate nursing action for each

Describe the procedure for administering blood products, including verification, vital-sign timing, and the first response to a transfusion reaction

Identify risk factors and early warning signs for pressure injury, deep vein thrombosis, and postoperative complications, and state the preventive intervention for each

Interpret common laboratory values (potassium, sodium, glucose, hemoglobin, creatinine, INR) and flag which results require immediate reporting

Explain preoperative and postoperative teaching points that reduce surgical risk, including incentive spirometry and early ambulation

Perform a head-to-toe assessment and document findings in the order used by the body-system examination

Adapt positioning, mobility, and hygiene care to clients with impaired mobility, obesity, or an existing wound

Explain pain assessment tools across the lifespan and the nonpharmacologic comfort measures that accompany analgesia

Trace the pathophysiology of the most common fluid and electrolyte imbalances and connect each to its assessment findings

Describe the nursing management priorities for clients with diabetes, heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and acute kidney injury

Apply therapeutic communication techniques and identify nontherapeutic responses in recorded dialogue samples

Describe the stages of grief and the nursing response to clients experiencing loss, anger, or denial

Recognize signs of abuse, neglect, and suicidal ideation and state the reporting and safety actions required

Identify developmental milestones and screening schedules for infants, children, and older adults, and match them to health-promotion teaching

Design client teaching on one modifiable risk behavior using a health-belief or stages-of-change framework

Distinguish the nurse's legal obligations for informed consent, advance directives, confidentiality, and mandatory reporting

Apply an ethical decision-making framework to a conflict among client autonomy, beneficence, and family wishes

Explain the scope of practice for the LPN/LVN relative to the registered nurse and the unlicensed assistive personnel in assignment and delegation decisions

Identify when an incident report is completed and what information is and is not documented in the client record

Describe advocacy actions when a client's rights or safety are at risk, including the escalation pathway

Complete two full-length timed practice examinations under test-day conditions and record the score for each domain

Rank the three weakest domains from practice results and rework every missed item to a documented rationale

Rehearse the prioritization and delegation decision tree against 20 new scenarios without reference to notes

Recite high-alert drug safeguards, antidotes, and transfusion-reaction steps from memory in a five-minute verbal review

Build a test-day plan covering sleep, arrival time, identification requirements, and a strategy for flagged items