DOH Exam Questions and Answers for Nurses — Q&A Practice Bank (2026)

The DOH exam is a single-best-answer computer-based test delivered by Pearson VUE under the authority of the Department of Health (DOH), Abu Dhabi, which does not publish the question count or seat time. Every question in the Phoenix RN DOH Q&A bank uses the same format: a short clinical stem, four options and one best answer, with a written explanation that references the underlying rationale rather than repeating the answer choice.

The 6,000+ questions in the bank are tagged to the DOH syllabus in the same proportions Prometric uses on the live paper. That means when you practise, your mix looks like this:

• Medical-Surgical Nursing — 31% of the bank, covering Cardio & vascular, Respiratory & O₂ therapy, Renal & dialysis and more.
• Pharmacology — 14% of the bank, covering Anticoagulants, Vasoactive drugs, Insulin & OHAs and more.
• Fundamentals — 13% of the bank, covering Infection control (DoH), Wound & pressure-injury care, Fall risk assessment and more.
• Maternal-Child Health — 10% of the bank, covering Antepartum monitoring, Newborn assessment, Breastfeeding and more.
• Paediatric Nursing — 10% of the bank, covering Respiratory infections, Paediatric fluid replacement, Growth & development.
• Mental Health — 8% of the bank, covering Depression & anxiety, Restraint policy, Suicide risk.
• Community Health — 7% of the bank, covering Abu Dhabi Weqaya screening, Chronic disease management, Vaccination programmes.
• Ethics & Professionalism — 7% of the bank, covering DoH scope of practice, Informed consent, Confidentiality.

Phoenix RN debriefs DOH candidates after every attempt and feeds the recall back into the Q&A bank. The themes that show up most often on recent DOH papers are grouped below — expect two or three MCQs from each in a typical sitting.

1. Start topic-wise, not random. Drill medical-surgical first (it is 31% of the paper), then pharmacology, then the remaining domains in weight order.
2. Aim for 50 questions a day for six weeks. That covers the entire bank twice — the second pass is where retention actually forms.
3. Read the explanation for every question, including the ones you got right. On the DOH paper, distractors are often "almost right" — knowing why they are wrong is what earns the mark.
4. Bookmark every question you get wrong. Two days before your date, review only the bookmarks. Candidates who do this consistently score 10–15 percentage points higher than candidates who repeat the whole bank.
5. Once you sustain 75%+ topic-wise, switch to full-length timed mocks to build the 3-hour stamina a full paper demands.