NCLEX-PN Basic Care and Comfort Practice Questions
Basic Care and Comfort · 7–13% of the NCLEX-PN · Physiological Integrity
85 questions weighted to every client-needs category, three case studies, and a score for Basic Care and Comfort so you know where you stand.
Free basic care and comfort drillA nurse is caring for the gastrostomy site of a resident. Which finding should the nurse report?
Basic Care and Comfort on the 2026 PN test plan
Basic Care and Comfort is 7–13% of the NCLEX-PN and covers hands-on care that keeps clients safe and comfortable: activities of daily living, enteral feeding, nutrition, mobility, elimination, skin, pain, sleep, irrigations and postmortem care. The questions test correct technique and the order of steps.
- Share of the exam
- 7–13% of scored stand-alone items (we weight our mock exams at 10%)
- Client Needs category
- Physiological Integrity
- Our drill
- 10 questions, untimed, a rationale for every option; one free attempt, unlimited with a pass
What Basic Care and Comfort questions test
- Assisting with activities of daily living while keeping dignity and privacy
- Enteral tube feeding and tube site care: placement checks, head-of-bed elevation and flushing
- Nutrition: therapeutic diets, dysphagia and aspiration precautions, intake and output
- Mobility: ambulation, range of motion, transfers, repositioning, canes, walkers and crutches
- Bowel and bladder management: bladder training, catheter care, constipation and incontinence
- Skin integrity: pressure injury prevention and stages
- Pain rating scales (numeric, FACES, FLACC, PAINAD) and nonpharmacological comfort measures
- Sleep and rest, irrigations (catheter, wound, ear, eye), care of clients with visual or hearing loss, care of immobilized clients and postmortem care
Sit the full exam under the real clock
85 questions weighted to every client-needs category, three case studies, and a score for Basic Care and Comfort so you know where you stand.
Free basic care and comfort drillHow to study it
- Mobility aids have fixed rules: a cane is held on the strong side and moves with the weak leg; up stairs with the good leg first, down with the bad leg first.
- Pressure injuries are staged by the deepest tissue visible; never massage a reddened bony prominence.
- For tube feedings, verify placement before every use, keep the head of the bed at least 30 degrees and flush before and after medications.
- Pick the pain scale that fits the client: FACES for young children, FLACC for infants and nonverbal children, PAINAD for advanced dementia.
Common questions
Which side does a client hold a cane on?
On the strong, unaffected side. The cane moves forward with the weak leg so the body weight is shared between the cane and the stronger leg. On stairs the strong leg leads up and the weak leg leads down.
What is a stage 2 pressure injury?
Partial-thickness skin loss with exposed pink or red moist dermis, or an intact or ruptured serum-filled blister. No slough, granulation tissue or deeper structures are visible. Stage 1 is intact skin with non-blanchable redness; stage 3 reaches fat.
How does a nurse rate pain in a client who cannot speak?
With a behavioral tool matched to the client: FLACC for infants and young children, PAINAD for advanced dementia. The nurse watches facial expression, body movement, muscle tension, breathing and consolability, and reports pain that behavior suggests.
85 questions weighted to every client-needs category, three case studies, and a score for Basic Care and Comfort so you know where you stand.
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Sources
- NCSBN: 2026 NCLEX-PN Test Plan (effective April 1, 2026)
- NCLEX.com: Test plans
- NCSBN: NCLEX Candidate Bulletin (October 2025): fees, retake policy, exam length and breaks
- NCSBN: NCLEX registration fee change effective February 1, 2027
- NCSBN: 2025 NCLEX Examination Statistics (NCLEX-PN volumes, pass rates and test length)
- NCLEX.com FAQs: partial-credit scoring (plus/minus, zero/one, rationale)
- NCSBN: Candidate Performance Report
Original practice questions for exam preparation, written to the 2026 NCLEX-PN Test Plan. Independent practice, not affiliated with or endorsed by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) or Pearson VUE. NCLEX and NCLEX-PN are registered trademarks of NCSBN.