NGN item type

Drop-Down Cloze practice

A clinical sentence with one or more blanks; each blank is its own drop-down menu of plausible choices. Scored per blank — fill the right options and you bank the points.

Try it — sample question

Complete the statement by choosing the correct option from each drop-down.

A client with heart failure is prescribed furosemide. The nurse should monitor for and teach the client to report .

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What is a Drop-Down Cloze question?

Drop-Down Cloze items test whether you can complete clinical reasoning sentences with the right priority. They're especially common in pharmacology, pathophysiology, and prioritisation scenarios.

Drill Drop-Down Cloze on every nursing course.

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Other NGN item types

Matrix Multiple Response

For each row, select every column that applies. Partial credit awarded.

Matrix Multiple Choice

For each row, pick exactly one column. All-or-nothing per row.

Bow-Tie

Pick the condition, two actions to take, and two parameters to monitor.

Drag-and-Drop Cloze

Drag word tiles from a shared bank into the right sentence blanks.

Highlight in Text

Click the words or phrases in a clinical note that warrant follow-up.

Ordered Response

Put the steps of a clinical procedure in the correct sequence.

Trend

Read clinical data across timed exhibits, then answer a findings grid.