PulseRN: NCLEX-RN prep engineered around how you learn
Built by a working hospital RN, for future RNs.
PulseRN was built by Sheldon Bennett, a working hospital RN, and engineered around how people actually learn and remember under pressure. Every session starts with a question, not a lecture. What you miss comes back right before you'd forget it. Adaptive practice finds your weak spots and works them until they're strengths. A Today round and a weekly plan are built around your exam date. It's built to get you ready to walk into the NCLEX confident.
- Retrieval practice: every session starts with a question, not a lecture
- Spaced repetition: missed items come back on real calendar dates
- Adaptive practice across all eight NCSBN client-needs categories
- A daily Today round and a weekly plan once your exam date is set
- Visual study cards for ABGs, potassium and ECG changes, IV fluids, insulin, isolation, and pressure injuries
- 10,000+ practice questions, 500+ case studies, 1,100+ flashcards, dosage calculation, and an AI tutor
- Next Generation formats: bow-tie, matrix, cloze, highlight, drag-and-drop, multiple response, and dosage calculation, plus standard multiple choice
- A 7-day free pass for study content, no card needed
Retrieval practice
You learn by pulling the answer out of memory. You commit to an answer, then read the rationale. Flashcards ask you to recall before the answer is shown. It's the same loop in the Today round, in practice sessions, and on the cards.
Spaced repetition
What you miss comes back on a real calendar date, right before you'd forget it, so it's there on exam day. Cards you know move further out. Cards you miss stay close. The schedule is the study plan.
Adaptive practice
PulseRN finds your weak spots across the eight NCSBN client-needs categories and works them until they're strengths. Question difficulty follows your answers: each answer updates an estimate of your level, and that estimate guides the next item.
A plan for each day
The Today round is one focused session: due flashcards, then adaptive questions, with the next action in view. Set an exam date and the weekly plan is built around it, so you always know what to do next. The lab reference opens over the question, so you can check a value without leaving it.
Visual study cards
Six concepts are drawn so they click: ABG interpretation, potassium and the ECG changes that go with it, IV fluid tonicity, insulin onset and peak, isolation precautions, and pressure-injury stages. They appear with the questions that use them.
The study library
The library includes 10,000+ practice questions, 500+ case studies, and 1,100+ flashcards, with dosage calculation practice and an AI tutor when you want another explanation. Case studies follow the NCSBN clinical judgment measurement model. Practice items are original. PulseRN does not use, reproduce, or claim access to live NCLEX questions.
Free sample questions
Try the 20-question free NCLEX-RN practice test hub, or open a five-question set for pharmacology, prioritization, dosage calculations, or NGN bow-tie items. Each public set shows the answer, the rationale, and the sources it was written against.
Readiness is an estimate
Paid plans include a set number of standardized 85-question readiness self-assessments. Each form is shown once per account. Readiness is an estimate built from your work in PulseRN. It shows you what to practice next. No prep program can guarantee an exam result.
How the content is built
PulseRN was built by Sheldon Bennett, a working hospital RN. Practice questions, case studies, flashcards, and readiness items are built around NCSBN's published test plan and pass automated quality checks before they go live. Public study guides are source-cited and approved by Sheldon Bennett, RN. Correction requests can be sent to sheldon@pulsern.app.
Compare NCLEX preparation by fit
Read dated, provider-sourced comparisons for PulseRN vs UWorld, PulseRN vs Archer Review, and PulseRN vs Kaplan. The comparison hub also covers question banks, affordable preparation, and repeat-test-taker needs. PulseRN discloses its commercial interest, uses no affiliate ranking, and does not name a universal winner.
Free and paid access
A new account can use a 7-day free pass for study content without entering a credit card. Paid access periods range from 30 to 730 days and include the number of readiness self-assessments shown on the public pricing page. Pricing is listed in U.S. dollars.
Install PulseRN from your browser
The private study interface is an installable progressive web app at www.pulsern.app/app/. Open the study app, then use the browser's Install app or Add to Home Screen command. No app-store download is required.
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