Child Health Nursing for NORCET: Topics, MCQs | NPrep

Child Health (Paediatric) Nursing for NORCET covers growth and development, the immunisation schedule, newborn care, IMNCI and paediatric emergencies. In NORCET 10 Prelims it gave about 10 of 100 questions by candidates' recall. Most are age-based: what a child of a given age should do, receive or be treated with.

Updated 5 November 2026. The exam pattern is from AIIMS Notice 103/2026. Question counts are NPrep's analysis of the NORCET 10 Prelims paper as recalled by candidates; AIIMS publishes no subject weightage. The immunisation schedule follows India's Universal Immunisation Programme.

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Child Health Nursing in NORCET at a glance

Item	Detail	Source
Stages where it appears	Stage I and Stage II	Notice 103/2026
Paediatric questions, NORCET 10 Prelims	About 10 of 100	NPrep analysis, candidates' recall
Question style	Age-based facts, milestone and vaccine timing, dehydration and emergency scenarios	NPrep analysis
Overlaps with	OBG (newborn care), Community Health (immunisation, programmes)	NPrep analysis
Negative marking	Minus 1/3 per wrong answer	Notice 103/2026

How many paediatric questions come in NORCET?

AIIMS publishes no weightage. In NORCET 10 Prelims, candidates recalled about 10 Child Health Nursing questions out of 100, after Medical-Surgical, OBG and Psychiatry. Many more child-related questions sit in OBG (the newborn) and Community Health (immunisation), so the topic is bigger than its own count.

What are the high-yield Child Health topics for NORCET?

Area	Topics to know
Growth and development	Weight and height milestones, motor, language and social milestones, theories (Freud, Erikson, Piaget)
Immunisation	National schedule, cold chain, contraindications, adverse events
Newborn	Normal newborn values, neonatal jaundice, hypothermia, low birth weight care, neonatal resuscitation
IMNCI	Danger signs, assessing dehydration, Plans A, B and C, pneumonia classification
Nutrition	Breastfeeding, complementary feeding, malnutrition, vitamin A schedule
Paediatric conditions	Congenital heart defects, nephrotic syndrome, diarrhoea, pneumonia, febrile seizures
Emergencies and drugs	Paediatric dose by weight, fluid requirement, poisoning, foreign body

What is the immunisation schedule for NORCET?

India's Universal Immunisation Programme, the version most NORCET questions follow:

Age	Vaccines
Birth	BCG, OPV-0, Hepatitis B birth dose
6, 10 and 14 weeks	OPV, Pentavalent, Rotavirus
9 to 12 months	Measles-Rubella (MR) first dose
16 to 24 months	MR second dose, DPT booster 1, OPV booster
5 to 6 years	DPT booster 2
10 and 16 years	Td

Other vaccines such as PCV, fractional IPV and JE (in endemic districts) are also in the programme; learn their timing from the current UIP schedule.

Which milestones are asked most in NORCET?

Age	Milestone
2 months	Social smile
3 months	Holds the head steady
6 months	Sits with support
9 months	Sits without support, stands holding on
12 months	Walks with support, says 1 or 2 words
18 months	Walks well alone
2 years	Runs, two-word sentences

Birth weight doubles by about 5 months and triples by about 1 year.

What does a NORCET Child Health question look like?

A 2-year-old child with diarrhoea is restless and irritable, has sunken eyes and drinks eagerly. According to IMNCI, what should the nurse give?

A. Plan A: fluids at home B. Plan B: ORS 75 mL per kg over 4 hours C. Plan C: IV fluids immediately D. Antibiotics and refer

Answer: B. Two signs of "some dehydration" (restless, sunken eyes, drinks eagerly) mean Plan B: 75 mL per kg of ORS over 4 hours under observation. Plan C is for severe dehydration, such as a lethargic child who cannot drink.

How should I prepare Child Health for NORCET?

1. Make one-page tables for milestones, the immunisation schedule and normal newborn values, and revise them weekly.
2. Learn IMNCI as decision rules, not as text: signs lead to a classification, and the classification leads to a plan.
3. Solve 20 paediatric questions a day, with dose-by-weight calculations.
4. Revise newborn care with OBG and immunisation with Community Health.

FAQs

How many paediatric questions are asked in NORCET?

AIIMS publishes no subject weightage. In NORCET 10 Prelims, candidates recalled about 10 Child Health Nursing questions out of 100.

Which immunisation schedule should I learn for NORCET?

India's Universal Immunisation Programme: BCG, OPV-0 and Hepatitis B at birth; OPV, Pentavalent and Rotavirus at 6, 10 and 14 weeks; MR at 9 to 12 and 16 to 24 months; DPT boosters; and Td at 10 and 16 years.

What is IMNCI Plan B?

For a child with some dehydration, Plan B is 75 mL per kg of ORS over 4 hours, given at the health facility while the child is observed.

Which book is best for Child Health Nursing for NORCET?

Wong's Essentials of Pediatric Nursing for concepts, with your milestone and vaccine tables and daily MCQs for practice.

What to read next

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