What Is Client Needs Categories?

The four broad content areas the NCLEX-RN test plan is organized around: Safe and Effective Care Environment, Health Promotion and Maintenance, Psychosocial Integrity, and Physiological Integrity. Questions are distributed across these categories to test balanced competence.

Client Needs Categories across 2 exams

Client Needs Categories appears on the following exams. Each defines it in the context candidates are tested on:

NCLEX-RN
The four broad content areas the NCLEX-RN test plan is organized around: Safe and Effective Care Environment, Health Promotion and Maintenance, Psychosocial Integrity, and Physiological Integrity. Questions are distributed across these categories to test balanced competence.
NCLEX-PN
The four broad content areas of the NCLEX-PN test plan that organize what is tested, such as safe and effective care environment, health promotion, psychosocial integrity, and physiological integrity. Every question maps to one of these categories.