The Client Needs map: the whole test on one page
A proportional block map of four category bands split into eight subcategory cells, each cell sized to its weighting midpoint, with the three heaviest cells filled in accent.
What the weighting means
Each subcategory is published as a percentage range rather than a fixed number, because item selection varies within the blueprint from exam to exam. Your study effort should follow the midpoint of the range, not the topic that feels most familiar. Comfort is not a weighting. A subcategory carrying twice the items deserves roughly twice the hours, whatever your instincts say.
The eight subcategories, by published range
| Category | Subcategory | Range |
|---|---|---|
| SECE | Management of Care | 15–21% |
| SECE | Safety and Infection Control | 10–16% |
| HPM | Health Promotion and Maintenance | 6–12% |
| PSI | Psychosocial Integrity | 6–12% |
| PHYS | Basic Care and Comfort | 6–12% |
| PHYS | Pharmacological and Parenteral Therapies | 13–19% |
| PHYS | Reduction of Risk Potential | 9–15% |
| PHYS | Physiological Adaptation | 11–17% |
The three that dominate
Management of Care, Pharmacological and Parenteral Therapies, and Physiological Adaptation carry the largest combined share of the current plan. Between them they can account for roughly half your exam. Naming them is the whole point of this page; their content is owned elsewhere and taught nowhere in this book.
Where each one lives
MOC→ BOOK 03 · P3SIC→ BOOK 04 · P3HPM→ BOOK 13 · P3PSI→ BOOK 14 · P3BCC→ BOOK 15 · P4PHRM→ BOOK 05 · P3RRP→ BOOK 07 · P3PAD→ BOOK 08 · P3 and the systems books that follow it
Margin notestudy where the questions are, not where you feel clever.
Watch outThese ranges shift when the plan is revised. Check them against the current effective edition before you build a schedule on them.
TakeawayFour categories, eight subcategories, and study time spent in proportion to the published ranges. → BOOK 03 · P3 · → BOOK 04 · P3 · → BOOK 05 · P3