Sources and attributions

How we use sources

Every SwipeExam question is original, and each cites at least one approved public source. Facts may only come from the sources below. Every item also shows its sources on the card and on its public page, along with a last-verified date.

What we do not use: commercial prep books, in any form (copied, paraphrased or fed to an AI), and “recalled” or “previous” real exam questions.

Attribution and notices

Open RN (WisTech Open). Many questions are adapted from the Open RN nursing textbooks (Chippewa Valley Technical College, through the Wisconsin Technical College System’s WisTech Open program), licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). We changed the material: facts are rewritten into original questions, answer options and rationales. Each question page and the list below show these books as “Adapted from”, with the title, the license and a link to the original chapter. The Open RN authors and publishers do not endorse SwipeExam. Open RN: https://wtcs.pressbooks.pub/pharmacology2e/.

openFDA. Drug facts come from FDA drug labels made available through openFDA under CC0 (public domain dedication). The US Food and Drug Administration does not endorse SwipeExam.

MedlinePlus. Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine. MedlinePlus health topic pages are US government works and are in the public domain (usage policy). We do not use A.D.A.M. encyclopedia content or ASHP drug monographs. The National Library of Medicine does not endorse SwipeExam.

CDC. Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). CDC content is available free from cdc.gov under CDC’s agency materials terms. CDC does not endorse SwipeExam or its products or services, and we do not alter the substance of the CDC content we rely on.

OpenStax. We may cite facts from OpenStax nursing textbooks and link to them (OpenStax, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). We do not copy or adapt their text. OpenStax does not endorse SwipeExam.

MedlinePlus. Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine. MedlinePlus health topic pages are US government works and are in the public domain (usage policy). We do not use A.D.A.M. encyclopedia content or ASHP drug monographs. The National Library of Medicine does not endorse SwipeExam.

Government sources named here do not endorse SwipeExam. Licenses are for those sources only; SwipeExam’s own questions and design are covered by our Terms.

Pages cited in our questions

Updated November 5, 2026. This is every page our published questions cite, including questions that are only in the app. Open RN pages are shown as “Adapted from”, because we changed the material under CC BY 4.0. The last column counts the questions that cite each page.