Top 50 NORCET MCQs with Answers – Must-Know Questions for Nursing Exam 2025



🌟 Top 50 NORCET Questions & Answers (Simplified)

🩺 1. Fundamentals of Nursing

  1. Q: Normal adult respiratory rate?
    ✅ 12–20 breaths/min

  2. Q: Best site for IM injection in adults?
    ✅ Ventrogluteal

  3. Q: How long to wash hands using alcohol-based rub?
    ✅ 20–30 seconds

  4. Q: What is informed consent?
    ✅ Legal permission before procedure after full explanation.

  5. Q: Normal range for blood pressure?
    ✅ 120/80 mmHg

💉 2. Medical-Surgical Nursing

  1. Q: Sign of hypokalemia?
    ✅ Muscle weakness

  2. Q: What is angina pectoris?
    ✅ Chest pain due to reduced heart blood supply

  3. Q: Post-op care priority?
    ✅ Airway management

  4. Q: Cause of peptic ulcer?
    ✅ H. pylori infection

  5. Q: What is CVA?
    ✅ Cerebrovascular accident (Stroke)

💊 3. Pharmacology

  1. Q: Antidote for heparin?
    ✅ Protamine sulfate

  2. Q: Safe IM site in infants?
    ✅ Vastus lateralis

  3. Q: Side effect of morphine?
    ✅ Respiratory depression

  4. Q: Digoxin toxicity sign?
    ✅ Visual disturbances (e.g., yellow vision)

  5. Q: What is bioavailability?
    ✅ Fraction of drug that reaches circulation

👩‍👧 4. Obstetrics & Gynecology

  1. Q: Duration of pregnancy?
    ✅ 280 days or 40 weeks

  2. Q: First sign of pregnancy?
    ✅ Amenorrhea

  3. Q: What is quickening?
    ✅ First fetal movement felt

  4. Q: Normal fetal heart rate?
    ✅ 110–160 bpm

  5. Q: Common postpartum complication?
    ✅ Postpartum hemorrhage

🧠 5. Mental Health Nursing

  1. Q: Hallucination definition?
    ✅ False sensory perception without stimulus

  2. Q: Drug used in schizophrenia?
    ✅ Haloperidol

  3. Q: What is lithium used for?
    ✅ Bipolar disorder

  4. Q: Common side effect of antipsychotics?
    ✅ Extrapyramidal symptoms

  5. Q: Define depression.
    ✅ Persistent low mood and loss of interest

👶 6. Pediatric Nursing

  1. Q: Vaccine at birth?
    ✅ BCG, OPV-0, Hepatitis B

  2. Q: What is APGAR score used for?
    ✅ Assess newborn health at 1 & 5 minutes

  3. Q: Normal newborn weight?
    ✅ 2.5–3.5 kg

  4. Q: Kwashiorkor cause?
    ✅ Protein deficiency

  5. Q: Sign of dehydration in infants?
    ✅ Sunken fontanelle

🌍 7. Community Health Nursing

  1. Q: ORS composition main ingredient?
    ✅ Glucose + Electrolytes

  2. Q: Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) goal?
    ✅ Immunize all children

  3. Q: What is ASHA?
    ✅ Accredited Social Health Activist

  4. Q: Common vector for malaria?
    ✅ Female Anopheles mosquito

  5. Q: Normal BMI range?
    ✅ 18.5–24.9

🧬 8. Anatomy & Physiology

  1. Q: Largest organ in the body?
    ✅ Skin

  2. Q: Function of RBCs?
    ✅ Oxygen transport

  3. Q: Pancreas secretes?
    ✅ Insulin and digestive enzymes

  4. Q: SA node is known as?
    ✅ Pacemaker of the heart

  5. Q: Organ for filtration of blood?
    ✅ Kidneys

⚖️ 9. Nursing Ethics & Laws

  1. Q: Nursing code of ethics is made by?
    ✅ ICN (International Council of Nurses)

  2. Q: What is negligence?
    ✅ Failure to give proper care

  3. Q: Confidentiality in nursing means?
    ✅ Keeping patient information private

  4. Q: Assault in healthcare?
    ✅ Threatening to harm a patient

  5. Q: Battery in nursing?
    ✅ Touching patient without consent

🚑 10. Emergency & Critical Care

  1. Q: CPR compression to breath ratio (1 rescuer)?
    ✅ 30:2

  2. Q: What is shock?
    ✅ Inadequate tissue perfusion

  3. Q: First aid for burns?
    ✅ Cool water, cover with clean cloth

  4. Q: Priority in triage?
    ✅ Life-threatening injuries

  5. Q: Glasgow Coma Scale full score?
    ✅ 15



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