For employers and recruitment agencies

You pay RCSI €2,500 to €2,800 a nurse. A practice seat is €25 to €45.

Nursing homes, hospitals and agencies that sponsor overseas nurses: give every nurse the theory and OSCE practice individual buyers pay €59 for, and see from one panel who is ready to book and who is not opening the app.

Open the agency panel Request 2 trial seats

€2,500

to RCSI for each nurse when an eligible employer pays directly at application, €2,800 otherwise. Two attempts at each part, then the route is closed.

60%

pass the OSCE at the first attempt, by RCSI’s own figure. The usual reasons it names: lack of preparation and rote learning.

12 weeks

to finish both parts and both attempts. A nurse who fails waits for the repeat date and cannot be rostered as a registered nurse meanwhile.

Figures from the RCSI fees and practical test pages, checked 5 October 2026.

Seat packs

One-off payment, no subscription, seats never expire. One seat = one nurse, 6 months of full access to both parts.

seats

€450

€45 a seat

seats

€875

€35 a seat

seats

€1500

€30 a seat

100

seats

€2500

€25 a seat

Every pack also opens the course to you and your team for 12 months. Retail price is €59 a pass. More than 100 nurses a year? Email hello@nurseaptitude.ie.

Add by email, or paste a cohort

Type her name and email, or paste the whole intake from Excel. Each nurse gets a login link the same minute, and her six months start.

Or hand out codes

Issue codes from your balance, send them on WhatsApp. She enters the code and her name. Unused codes come back.

See who is ready

Questions answered, accuracy, mock scores, weakest topics, paperwork cases checked and the access end date on every row, sorted so the nurses who need a word come first. The nurse can hide the summary; the dates stay.

Try it with 2 nurses first

Tell us who you are. We check the organisation exists and send a personal invite link that puts 2 free seats on your panel, and opens the course to you and your team for 6 months so you can read the questions yourselves. Work email addresses only.

Questions employers ask

What does a nurse get?: Exactly what a retail buyer gets for €59. Theory: all 1,173 questions across 41 topics, the source document named under every answer, the 150-question timed mock on the RCSI clock, unlimited short mocks and a mistakes deck. OSCE: 14 station rehearsals on a 10-minute timer with a debrief, 11 paperwork trainers on the real forms (INEWS chart, drug chart, sepsis screen, ISBAR, fluid balance, Waterlow, MUST and more) and the seven teaching talks. 6 months from the day the seat is used.
What do we see?: For each nurse: name, email, when you added her, when access ends, and (unless she switches it off) questions answered, accuracy, mocks sat with the last score, paperwork cases checked, and her three weakest topics. Each row carries a flag: last mock above or below the 50% RCSI pass mark, or no practice for two weeks. Never the individual answers. Enough to know who is ready to book and who is not opening the app.
How do seats reach nurses?: Three ways. Add her by name and email and she gets a login link the same minute. Paste a whole cohort from Excel, one nurse per line. Or issue codes and hand them out on WhatsApp; she enters the code and her name on her account page, and is told there that you will see her access dates and practice summary. Unused codes can be cancelled and the seat returns to your balance.
Can my colleagues use the panel?: Yes. The account that set up the agency adds colleagues under "Your team": a manager can add nurses and issue codes, a viewer only sees the list and progress. Up to five colleagues; they do not use seats, and the course itself is open to the whole team while the agency has access (every seat pack gives 12 months). Reminder emails (access ending, login email not opened, no practice, Monday summary) are switched on and off by the owner and go to the whole team.
Do seats expire?: No. Buy 50 today, use them over the next two years. Each seat starts its own six months only when you assign it.
What is the pass guarantee?: If a nurse fails the real RCSI theory test while her access is active, click "Claim the guarantee" on her row and email us the result sheet. We add another 6 months for her without taking a seat.
Is this an RCSI course?: No. NurseAptitude.ie is an independent study tool. RCSI does not endorse or approve any preparation course, and none of our questions come from a real paper. They are written from the documents on the RCSI reading list, and the source is named on every answer. The OSCE forms are the published HSE and RCSI documents the test uses.
Invoices and VAT?: Stripe emails the invoice to your login address at payment, issued by Avlas Digital (sole trader, Ireland). No VAT is charged: the operator is not registered for VAT, and the invoice says so. If your accounts team needs a purchase order number or a bank transfer (50 seats and up), email us before paying.