NCLEX Review Jeopardy

Prioritization, delegation, lab values, and safety in an NCLEX-style review game. Nursing cohorts can copy the board free and buzz in from their phones.

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Prioritization

$200
The ABCs of prioritization are airway, breathing and this.
What is circulation?
$400
In the nursing process, remembered as ADPIE, this is the first step.
What is assessment?
$600
As a rule, an acute, unexpected problem takes priority over one of this kind, which is long-standing and expected.
What is chronic?
$800
In START mass-casualty triage, a victim who does not breathe even after the airway is repositioned receives a tag of this color.
What is black?
$1,000
In START triage, a respiratory rate above this number per minute places a victim in the immediate category.
What is 30?

Delegation and Scope

$200
The five rights of delegation are right task, circumstance, person, direction and communication, and this.
What is right supervision and evaluation?
$400
Along with assessment and teaching, the RN may not delegate this step, which judges whether a client's goals were met.
What is evaluation?
$600
Nursing assistants fall under this three-letter category, the staff an RN may delegate routine tasks to.
What are UAP?
$800
This organization develops and owns the NCLEX-RN exam.
What is the National Council of State Boards of Nursing?
$1,000
Each state's version of this law defines the legal scope of practice for RNs and LPNs.
What is the Nurse Practice Act?

Safety and Infection Control

$200
Because alcohol rubs don't kill C. difficile spores, hands must be cleaned with these.
What are soap and water?
$400
A client with active pulmonary tuberculosis needs this category of transmission-based precautions in a negative-pressure room.
What are airborne precautions?
$600
The fire extinguisher acronym PASS stands for pull, aim, squeeze and this.
What is sweep?
$800
The Joint Commission requires at least this many patient identifiers, such as name and date of birth, before care like giving medications.
What is two?
$1,000
A client with suspected meningitis caused by Neisseria meningitidis is placed on this category of precautions.
What are droplet precautions?

Normal Lab Values

$200
Normal serum potassium falls in this range, in mEq/L.
What is 3.5 to 5.0?
$400
Normal serum sodium runs from 135 up to this value, in mEq/L.
What is 145?
$600
For a client on warfarin for atrial fibrillation, the target INR is usually this range.
What is 2 to 3?
$800
Normal arterial blood pH runs from 7.35 up to this value.
What is 7.45?
$1,000
On an arterial blood gas, normal bicarbonate runs from 22 up to this value, in mEq/L.
What is 26?

Maternal and Pediatric Care

$200
The Apgar score is taken at 1 minute after birth and again at this many minutes.
What is 5?
$400
Naegele's rule adds 7 days to the first day of the last menstrual period, subtracts this many months, and adds a year.
What is three?
$600
In the VEAL CHOP mnemonic, variable decelerations are caused by this.
What is cord compression?
$800
Late decelerations on the fetal monitor point to this problem, so the nurse turns the client onto her left side.
What is uteroplacental insufficiency?
$1,000
An infant's anterior fontanel usually closes within this age range.
What is 12 to 18 months?

Mental Health Nursing

$200
When a client voices suicidal thoughts, the nurse should ask directly whether the client has one of these.
What is a plan?
$400
This defense mechanism attributes a person's own unacceptable feelings to someone else.
What is projection?
$600
Splitting and an intense fear of abandonment are hallmarks of this personality disorder.
What is borderline personality disorder?
$800
Delirium tremens usually begins within this window of hours after a client's last drink.
What is 48 to 72 hours?
$1,000
Russell's sign, calluses on the knuckles from self-induced vomiting, suggests this eating disorder.
What is bulimia nervosa?

Final Jeopardy — Nursing Theory

Nurses prioritize physiological needs first using the hierarchy of needs proposed in 1943 by this psychologist.

Who is Abraham Maslow?

How to run this board

This board targets the NCLEX content that shows up everywhere: prioritization, delegation and scope of practice, safety and infection control, normal lab values, maternal and pediatric care, and mental health nursing. It pairs with a pharmacology board if you want a full review night.

It is a study aid for students already working through an NCLEX review course, not a substitute for one or for official practice questions. Clues follow widely taught principles, and lab ranges can differ slightly by source, so accept answers your program's references support.

A house rule that mirrors the exam: for any prioritization clue, the answering team must say which patient they would see first and why. The rationale earns the points, not the guess.

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