Why we built this

I sat the NCLEX in 2019 and spent the six weeks before it paying for a question bank that would not tell me who had written its questions. Half the rationales were a single sentence restating the correct answer. I passed, and I stayed annoyed about it, because the thing I actually needed — someone explaining why the other three options were wrong — was the one thing nobody was selling.

Nursia is the version of that product I wanted. Every question is written by a registered nurse, reviewed by two more, and mapped to a category on the NCSBN test plan before it goes anywhere near the site. Every rationale explains the distractors, not just the key. The names of the people who write and review them are on this page, with their credentials, because if we are asking you to trust an unknown brand with six weeks of your life, the least we can do is tell you who we are.

We are early. There are 1,200 questions where there should eventually be three thousand, the case studies are 40 of a planned 90, and we have no pass-rate statistic to show you because we have not been running long enough for one to mean anything. You will not find a testimonial wall here for the same reason. What you will find is the product, ungated, on almost every page — answer a few questions and decide for yourself.

— Dana Whitfield, RN, MSN
Founder