NCLEX-PN Health Promotion Practice Questions
Health Promotion and Maintenance · 6–12% of the NCLEX-PN · Health Promotion and Maintenance
85 questions weighted to every client-needs category, three case studies, and a score for Health Promotion so you know where you stand.
Free health promotion drillWhile helping the RN with a client in labor, the practical nurse notes that the fetal heart rate is 112 to 156 beats/min with moderate variability. What does this finding suggest?
Health Promotion and Maintenance on the 2026 PN test plan
Health Promotion and Maintenance is 6–12% of the NCLEX-PN and covers the whole lifespan: the antepartum client, labor, the stable postpartum client, newborns, children, adults and older adults. Questions test expected findings, milestones, immunizations, screening and how to reinforce teaching to the right learner.
- Share of the exam
- 6–12% of scored stand-alone items (we weight our mock exams at 9%)
- Client Needs category
- Health Promotion and Maintenance
- Our drill
- 10 questions, untimed, a rationale for every option; one free attempt, unlimited with a pass
What Health Promotion questions test
- Assisting with antepartum care and with monitoring a client in labor
- Monitoring recovery of the stable postpartum client: fundus, lochia, bladder and breastfeeding
- Newborn and infant care: safe sleep, car seats, feeding and expected findings
- Comparing children with developmental milestones from infancy through adolescence
- Care of adults and of adults 65 and older, including expected changes of aging
- Immunizations: who needs which vaccine, and when a vaccine is held
- Health history, baseline physical data, health screening and community resources
- Life transitions, high-risk behaviors and barriers to communication and learning
Sit the full exam under the real clock
85 questions weighted to every client-needs category, three case studies, and a score for Health Promotion so you know where you stand.
Free health promotion drillHow to study it
- Know a milestone for each age band (2, 4, 6, 9, 12, 18 months; 2, 3, 4, 5 years) and the safety teaching that goes with it.
- Postpartum findings follow a timeline: lochia rubra, serosa then alba; the fundus descends about one fingerbreadth a day. A boggy fundus is massaged and reported.
- Learn the immunization schedule by visit, and the live vaccines that are held in pregnancy and in severe immunosuppression.
- Teaching questions reward checking what the learner already knows and removing barriers before reinforcing information.
Common questions
What postpartum findings should the practical nurse report?
A boggy fundus that does not firm with massage, saturating a pad in an hour or less, large clots, a rising heart rate with falling blood pressure, a fundus displaced by a full bladder that the client cannot empty, fever, foul-smelling lochia, and calf pain or swelling.
When do infant reflexes disappear?
The Moro and rooting reflexes fade by about 4 months, the palmar grasp by about 6 months and the Babinski response by about 12 months. A reflex that persists well past its age is a developmental concern to report.
What is normal postpartum lochia?
Rubra (dark red) for the first three or so days, serosa (pinkish brown) until about day 10, then alba (yellowish white) for up to several weeks. Saturating a pad in an hour, large clots or a return to bright red bleeding is reported.
85 questions weighted to every client-needs category, three case studies, and a score for Health Promotion 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.