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

The NHRA exam is a single-best-answer computer-based test delivered by Prometric under the authority of the National Health Regulatory Authority (NHRA), Kingdom of Bahrain, which does not publish the question count or seat time. Every question in the Phoenix RN NHRA 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 NHRA syllabus in the same proportions Prometric uses on the live paper. That means when you practise, your mix looks like this:

• Medical-Surgical Nursing — 32% of the bank, covering Cardiac & vascular disorders, Respiratory & COPD, Renal & fluid-electrolyte and more.
• Fundamentals of Nursing — 14% of the bank, covering Infection control & PPE, Vital signs & pain, IV therapy & wound care and more.
• Pharmacology — 13% of the bank, covering Drug calculations, High-alert medications, Antibiotics & anticoagulants and more.
• Maternal & Newborn Health — 10% of the bank, covering Antepartum & intrapartum care, Postpartum haemorrhage, Neonatal resuscitation and more.
• Paediatric Nursing — 10% of the bank, covering Growth & development, Paediatric emergencies, Immunisation schedule and more.
• Mental Health Nursing — 8% of the bank, covering Anxiety & mood disorders, Substance abuse, Therapeutic communication and more.
• Community & Public Health — 8% of the bank, covering Bahrain MoH programmes, Chronic disease prevention, Health promotion and more.
• Leadership, Ethics & Legal — 5% of the bank, covering Delegation & prioritisation, Patient rights, NHRA scope of practice and more.

Phoenix RN debriefs NHRA candidates after every attempt and feeds the recall back into the Q&A bank. The themes that show up most often on recent NHRA 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 32% 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 NHRA 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.