Category 5 · 6–12% of the exam
Basic Care and Comfort
Everyday nursing care and how it connects to patient safety.
Client need · Physiological Integrity
Providing comfort and assistance in the performance of activities of daily living.
Learning objectives
- ✓Prevent complications of immobility and pressure injury
- ✓Use assistive devices safely (cane, walker, crutches)
- ✓Manage nutrition, tube feedings, and therapeutic diets
- ✓Provide nonpharmacological comfort and sleep measures
3-day lesson plan
Day 1
Learn
Review positioning, assistive devices (cane on strong side), and diets.
Day 2
Apply
Practice tube-feeding, catheter, and pressure-injury questions.
Day 3
Check
Take the category quiz and rewrite missed items as flashcards.
Study checklist
Test plan related content
Content areas NCSBN lists for this category.
Assistive devicesEliminationMobility / immobilityNonpharmacological comfort interventionsNutrition and oral hydrationPersonal hygieneRest and sleep
Must know
- ●Keep patients with swallowing difficulties upright and follow their prescribed swallowing plan.
- ●Reposition patients according to individual risk and clinical needs.
- ●Assess pain before and after interventions.
- ●Sudden severe abdominal pain, rigidity, or signs of obstruction require prompt evaluation.