NGN item type
Ordered Response practice
Steps of a nursing procedure are shown out of order; reorder them into the correct sequence. Each position is scored — get the third step right and you bank that point even if the second is wrong.
Try it — sample question
Place the steps of donning sterile gloves in the correct order.
Use the arrows to put the steps in order, first at the top.
- 1 Pick up the second glove using the gloved hand, touching only the outer surface
- 2 Open the inner glove wrapper without contaminating the outer surface
- 3 Perform hand hygiene
- 4 Slide the dominant hand into its glove, touching only the inside of the cuff
- 5 Adjust both gloves for a snug fit, keeping hands above waist level
What is a Ordered Response question?
Ordered Response items appear constantly for procedural skills (sterile field, medication administration, code blue). The scoring is per-position, so a near-miss can still score most of the points.
Drill Ordered Response 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.
Drop-Down Cloze
Fill in the clinical sentence by picking from drop-down menus.
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.
Trend
Read clinical data across timed exhibits, then answer a findings grid.