The Practical Nurse State Licensure Examination Content and Format
The content and the format of the practical nurse state licensure examination
The format of the registered nurse state licensure examination, the steps of the exam, mandatory bibliography, and important notes regarding answering the questions
What is the content of practical nurse state licensure examination, and how long is it? Find all the details here.
The exam is administered once a year, in December.
The exam is written in Hebrew.
If you are an internationally graduated nurse, there is an option to take the examination in one of the following languages: Arabic, Russian, English, Spanish, or French. To issue a work permit in Israel, internationally graduated nurses need to pass a Hebrew proficiency test within three years from the time that they took the exam in one of the foreign languages specified above.
The exam is computerized and has 100 multiple-choice questions with four options. There is only one correct answer.
This exam assesses the knowledge, abilities, and aptitudes that are essential for ensuring the level of safety and skills required from a registered nurse.
The exam content will be selected from the following topics:
- Surgical and conservative elderly care
- Nursing ethics and legislation
- Communication with patients, colleagues, and family members
- Daily life activities over the life cycle
- Preventing infections
- Personal care
- Patient mobility
- Patient safety
- Work environment hazards
- Nutrition and feeding
- Fluid intake balance
- Emergency care and first aid
Notes
- Professional terms and concepts —professional terms will be written in Latin or Hebrew with Latin in parentheses. For example: דלקת קרום הלב (Pericarditis).
- Acronyms — acronyms used will be put in parentheses, for example COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease).
- Medications — medications referred to will use the generic term and brand name in parentheses, for example Salicylic acid (Aspirin).
- Laboratory values — laboratory values will be given with the units. Note: the units are metric: gram, mg, % mg (=mg/dl).
- Laws and regulatory professional standards — the law or the regulatory professional standards will be referred to in the question. In a foreign language exam, the title of the law or the standard appears both in Hebrew and in the foreign language.
Tools that may help you prepare for the exam:
Mandatory bibliography for the licensure exam
The bibliography contains all the books, laws, and regulatory professional standards required for answering the questions.
Practical nurse mandatory bibliography of the state licensure exam