📚 Philippine Nurse Licensure Examination Overview

This Philippine Nurse Licensure Examination consists of five (5) parts:

• 🩺 Nursing Practice I – Community Health Nursing
• 👩‍🍼 Nursing Practice II – Care of Healthy/At Risk Mother and Child
• 🧠 Nursing Practice III – Care of Clients with Physiologic and Psychosocial Alterations (Part A)
• 🫁 Nursing Practice IV – Care of Clients with Physiologic and Psychosocial Alterations (Part B)
• 💊 Nursing Practice V – Care of Clients with Physiologic and Psychosocial Alterations (Part C)

The tests draw basic knowledge, skills, and attitudes from the following major nursing areas:

• 🩻 Fundamentals of Nursing & Professional Adjustments
• 🧒 Maternal and Child Nursing
• 🌍 Community Health and Communicable Disease Nursing
• 👵 Nursing of Adolescents, Adults, and the Elderly
• 🧠 Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing

Integrated Knowledge Areas 🧠

• 🔬 Anatomy and Physiology
• 💉 Pathophysiology
• 💊 Pharmacology and Therapeutics
• 🥗 Nutrition and Diet Therapy
• 🦠 Parasitology and Microbiology

The nursing process serves as the framework for providing comprehensive care across all life stages. The focus is on health promotion, illness prevention, curative and rehabilitative care, and peaceful end-of-life support.

🧭 Competency Areas

🧍 I. PATIENT CARE COMPETENCIES

• ✅ Safe and Quality Nursing Care
• 🗣️ Communication
• 🤝 Collaboration and Teamwork
• 📢 Health Education

💡 II. EMPOWERING COMPETENCIES

• ⚖️ Legal Responsibilities
• 🕊️ Ethico-Moral-Spiritual Responsibilities
• 🌱 Personal and Professional Development

🧰 III. ENABLING COMPETENCIES

• 🏥 Management of Resources and Environment
• 🗂️ Records Management

🚀 IV. ENHANCING COMPETENCIES

• 🔍 Research
• 📈 Quality Improvement

🗓️ Exam Schedule

Date	Time	Subjects
Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025	7:00 AM – 7:45 AM	📋 General Instructions and Filling-out of Forms
	8:00 AM – 10:00 AM	🌍 Nursing Practice I – Community Health Nursing
	11:30 AM – 1:30 PM	👩‍🍼 Nursing Practice II – Care of Healthy/At Risk Mother and Child
	2:30 PM – 4:30 PM	🧠 Nursing Practice III – Care of Clients with Physiologic and Psychosocial Alterations (Part A)
Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025	8:00 AM – 10:00 AM	🫁 Nursing Practice IV – Care of Clients with Physiologic and Psychosocial Alterations (Part B)
	11:30 AM – 1:30 PM	💊 Nursing Practice V – Care of Clients with Physiologic and Psychosocial Alterations (Part C)

📌 For best results, review core topics and key competencies regularly. Good luck, future RNs! 🩺