Questions, answered plainly

Yes. The Free Quiz gives you eight real questions from the same bank our paying students use, graded the same way, with the full rationale after each answer — including at least one question built around a real clinical chart or diagram. No account and no card are needed.

Not for the Free Quiz. You only need an account once you buy access, so we can keep your progress, your history and your entitlements attached to you.

Pick the exam you are actually sitting: NCLEX-RN for registered nursing graduates, NCLEX-PN/LVN for practical or vocational nursing graduates, CNA for nurse aide certification, and Medication Aide for medication administration certification. Each has its own question bank written for that exam.

Yes. CARE Nursing runs in your web browser on any of them — there is no app to install, and your progress follows your account rather than the device.

Four plans per credential — Starter, Basic, Premium and Complete. The two things that always increase as you move up are how much of the question bank you can reach and how long your access lasts. Mock exams and weak-topic tracking are included in every plan, including Starter; we do not hold back study tools to push you upward. NGN case studies are included with Premium and Complete, and Complete also gets new questions added during your access period.

Every plan includes practice questions drawn across the whole blueprint, a written rationale for every answer option, timed full-length mock exams, weak-topic ranking, retry of questions you missed, and your full history. Higher plans reach more of the question bank and last longer, and Premium and Complete add NGN unfolding case studies.

Each plan is a fixed number of days, shown on the plan before you buy. Your dashboard and account page always show the exact date your access ends.

No. Every plan is a one-time payment for a fixed period. Nothing renews automatically and there is nothing to cancel.

Practice content stops opening, and your account stays exactly where it was — your history and progress are not deleted. If you buy access again later, it picks up from there.

Yes, and you are credited for what you already paid. When you upgrade within the same credential, the price of your current plan comes off the price of the higher one, so you pay only the difference — moving from Basic to Premium on NCLEX-RN costs $60, not $149. The upgrade takes effect immediately: the larger question bank and anything newly included open up straight away, and the new plan's full access period starts from the moment the upgrade completes. Credit applies within one credential — what you paid for NCLEX-RN does not reduce the price of CNA, because they are separate products with separate question banks.

Your new plan's access period starts fresh at the upgrade. If you had 20 days left on Basic and upgrade to Premium, you get Premium's full 90 days from that moment — the two periods are not added together. Because every higher plan lasts longer than the one below it, an upgrade always leaves you with more time than you had, never less.

Yes. Each credential is bought separately because each has its own question bank, and your account holds them side by side. Your dashboard tracks each one's access and progress independently.

No. Plan prices are the same everywhere. Your state matters for CNA and Medication Aide because those credentials are administered state by state, but it does not change what you pay.

We show you what we can actually measure, and we are careful not to invent the rest. You get your real results on every session, how you are doing topic by topic, which topics are your weakest, your full answer history, and the ability to retry exactly what you missed. The NCLEX-RN and NCLEX-PN are computer-adaptive exams: whether you pass depends on the exam's own estimate of your ability measured against NCSBN's published passing standard, not on the percentage of questions you answered correctly. NCSBN publishes that standard, but not the item-level data or the algorithm behind it, so nobody outside NCSBN can reproduce it — which is why we will not hand you a pass probability or a predicted exam score. Real measurement is more useful than false certainty.

Yes, and they are included in every plan. They are timed, full-length, and built to the exam's own blueprint weighting rather than an even split across topics, so the mix of questions mirrors the real distribution.

Yes. More than a thousand questions are built around a real clinical exhibit — medication administration records, rhythm strips, lab trend tables, flowsheets and assessment worksheets — where reading the exhibit correctly is the actual skill being tested. The Free Quiz includes one so you can see them before buying.

Yes. These are unfolding case studies that follow one patient through a full clinical-judgment sequence, modelled on NCSBN's Clinical Judgment Measurement Model. They are included with Premium and Complete.

The case studies are authored at RN clinical-judgment level, so today they are included with NCLEX-RN. NCLEX-PN/LVN, CNA and Medication Aide do not have their own case studies yet, and we would rather say that plainly than imply coverage that is not there.

Yes. You can work through a specific topic, and your review area lets you go straight at the topics where you are weakest rather than working front to back.

Yes. Everything you have missed is collected for you, and you can retry it in one go or topic by topic. Every retry shows the full rationale again.

As you answer, we track your accuracy per topic and rank the topics where you are weakest. A topic you have barely attempted cannot jump the queue ahead of one you have genuinely struggled with, so the ranking reflects real evidence rather than a small sample. It is included in every plan.

Because each credential has its own bank, sized to its own exam. NCLEX-RN and NCLEX-PN cover a much broader scope of practice than CNA or Medication Aide, so their banks are larger. Every count shown on the site is counted from the questions that actually ship.

NCLEX-RN and NCLEX-PN/LVN are single national examinations — the same exam wherever you test — so there is no state to choose. Nurse aide and medication aide certification are different: each state runs its own program, its own testing vendor and its own requirements, so we record which state's certification you are preparing for and set your account up for it. To be clear about what this does and does not mean today: our CNA and Medication Aide question banks are national — the questions are the same in every state — and they do not replace your own state's curriculum or skills checklist.

Every question is written from a recorded, authoritative source, and carries a traceable link back to the specific fact it tests — that holds for all 9,710 questions we ship, not most of them. Those sources are the NCSBN test plans for what the exams cover, federal regulation and government health agencies, professional-body clinical guidelines, and current nursing reference texts. Each question is then put through an independent review pass whose job is to try to disprove it: wrong keys, ambiguous stems, answers given away by the wording or by an exhibit, and options that are defensible but marked wrong. That review is automated and adversarial, and it catches real defects. It is not the same thing as sign-off by a licensed clinician, and we do not describe it as though it were.

No. CARE Nursing is an independent exam-preparation resource. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or reviewed by NCSBN, any state board of nursing, any testing vendor, or your training program.

No. CARE Nursing is a study aid for the exam. It does not replace your program, your clinical hours, or — for CNA and Medication Aide — the specific requirements and skills checklist your state sets.

Use the “Reset your password” link on the login page. We email you a secure, single-use link that takes you straight to setting a new one. If it does not arrive within a few minutes, check your spam folder before requesting another.

Your account page lists every credential you hold, whether it is currently active, and the exact date each one ends. Your dashboard shows the same thing at a glance.

Yes. Your answers, history and topic performance are attached to your account, not to a session or a device, so you can stop mid-study and pick up where you left off.

Every Starter plan is non-refundable — NCLEX-RN Starter ($29), NCLEX-PN / LVN Starter ($29), CNA / Nurse Aide Starter ($19), Medication Aide Starter ($19), ATI TEAS 7 Starter ($29). You will see “No refunds” at checkout before you pay. Every other plan, on every product, can be refunded within 7 calendar days of purchase — just email us. We keep the entry plans non-refundable because they are priced close to the cost of running them, and we would rather be plain about that up front than bury it.

Email info@carenursingprep.com from the address on your account, within 7 days of your purchase, and tell us which plan you bought. If your plan is eligible we will process it back to your original payment method.

Email info@carenursingprep.com or call 831-239-5025. Either reaches a person, and it is the right place for access problems, billing questions, refund requests, or telling us you think a question is wrong — the last one genuinely helps us.

Tell us at info@carenursingprep.com and include what you saw. Every question is traceable back to the source it was written from, so a specific report is something we can actually chase down and fix rather than debate.