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Stop highlight-reading static 800-page textbooks. Master the high-yield hemodynamic frameworks, ventilation algorithms, and trauma protocols you need to clear your CCRN, CEN, or PCCN exam—on a schedule that adapts directly to your shift patterns.NursePrep Academy delivers rigorous, adaptive CCRN, CEN, and PCCN prep.
"You already think like a critical care clinician — I'm just here to make sure the exam knows it too."
— Christina A Brumley
What you'll learn
What you'll be able to do
- Master advanced hemodynamic monitoring frameworks — including arterial waveform interpretation, SVR/CO trending, and PA catheter data — to answer CCRN and PCCN board questions with clinical authority.
- Execute rapid mechanical ventilation algorithms, confidently interpreting vent modes, plateau pressures, auto-PEEP, and compliance curves across ARDS, COPD, and post-operative patients on high-yield exam scenarios.
- Apply trauma resuscitation protocols (ATLS sequence, permissive hypotension, damage-control transfusion ratios) to CEN case-based board questions under timed, exam-authentic conditions.
- Analyze telemetry strips and 12-lead ECGs — identifying lethal arrhythmias, STEMI equivalents, and conduction pathologies — with the speed and accuracy demanded by certification item writers.
- Demonstrate board-ready test-taking strategy using adaptive AI mock boards that mirror the CCRN, CEN, and PCCN item formats, tracking weak domains with spaced-repetition flashcard integration for targeted remediation.
- Build a personalized, shift-compatible study system using the 24/7 clinical tutor, progress dashboards, and independent certification tracks so that exam day arrives with zero content gaps — regardless of night float, overtime, or float pool chaos.
How it works
A school that adapts to you
This isn't a set of static videos. Every lesson is generated live and tuned to where you actually are.
We learn your level
A quick placement check tailors your starting point so you're never bored or lost.
Lessons adapt as you go
Each lesson is written for your pace and your goal, adjusting as your skills grow.
Your AI coach keeps you moving
Checkpoints, feedback, and gentle nudges turn progress into a real result.
The curriculum
What's Inside NursePrep Academy
6 modules · 30 lessons
Command Center Orientation: Build Your Shift-Proof Study System
Sets up every nurse's personalized, schedule-resilient study infrastructure using the platform's AI tools, dashboards, and clinical tutor before any content track begins.
- 1.1Baseline Diagnostic: Map Your Weak Domains Across All Three ExamsIncluded
- 1.2Choose Your Track: CCRN, CEN, PCCN, or All-Access SequenceIncluded
- 1.3Build Your Rotating-Shift Study CalendarIncluded
- 1.4Activate the 24/7 Night-Shift Clinical TutorIncluded
- 1.5Spaced-Repetition Flashcard Engine: Setup and StrategyIncluded
CCRN Track — Hemodynamic Mastery
Builds authoritative command of arterial waveforms, cardiac output trending, and PA catheter data as tested on CCRN and PCCN board items.
- 2.1Arterial Waveform Interpretation: From Dampening to Pulsus ParadoxusIncluded
- 2.2Cardiac Output and SVR Trending: Thermodilution to Continuous MonitoringIncluded
- 2.3PA Catheter Data: Wedge Pressures, Mixed Venous Sats, and RVEDPIncluded
- 2.4Shock State Algorithms: Classify, Intervene, and Justify on Board ItemsIncluded
- 2.5Hemodynamic Adaptive Mock Board — CCRN SubsetIncluded
CCRN & PCCN Track — Mechanical Ventilation Algorithms
Delivers rapid, algorithm-driven mastery of ventilator management across ARDS, COPD, and post-op patients to dominate the vent-heavy portion of both exams.
- 3.1Vent Mode Decision Tree: AC, SIMV, PSV, and APRV DecodedIncluded
- 3.2Plateau Pressure, Auto-PEEP, and Compliance Curves: Interpret and ActIncluded
- 3.3ARDS Lung-Protective Strategy: Low Tidal Volume, Prone Positioning, and RecruitmentIncluded
- 3.4COPD and Post-Op Vent Management: Avoiding Air-Trapping and Failed ExtubationIncluded
- 3.5Ventilator Adaptive Mock Board — CCRN & PCCN SubsetIncluded
CEN Track — Trauma Resuscitation Protocols
Trains ED nurses to apply ATLS sequencing, damage-control resuscitation, and permissive hypotension under the timed, case-based format of the CEN exam.
- 4.1ATLS Primary Survey Under the Clock: Airway to Exposure on CEN ItemsIncluded
- 4.2Permissive Hypotension and Hemorrhagic Shock StagingIncluded
- 4.3Damage-Control Transfusion: MTP Activation, 1:1:1 Ratios, and TXA TimingIncluded
- 4.4Traumatic Brain Injury and Spinal Cord Emergencies on the CENIncluded
- 4.5Trauma Adaptive Mock Board — CEN SubsetIncluded
CCRN, CEN & PCCN Track — Telemetry and 12-Lead ECG Analytics
Develops the speed and accuracy to identify lethal arrhythmias, STEMI equivalents, and conduction pathologies at the pace certification item writers demand.
- 5.1Systematic Strip Reading at Exam Speed: Rate, Rhythm, Axis, IntervalsIncluded
- 5.2Lethal Arrhythmia Recognition: VF, VT, Torsades, and Third-Degree BlockIncluded
- 5.3STEMI Equivalents and Posterior MI: Catching What the Algorithm MissesIncluded
- 5.4Conduction Pathologies: Bundle Branches, Fascicular Blocks, and WPWIncluded
- 5.5ECG & Telemetry Adaptive Mock Board — All TracksIncluded
Full-Length Adaptive Mock Boards and Exam-Day Execution
Consolidates all track content into simulated certification exams with AI-driven scoring, board strategy coaching, and final gap closure before exam day.
- 6.1Board Item Deconstruction: NGN Format, Select-All, and Ordered-Response StrategiesIncluded
- 6.2CCRN Full-Length Adaptive Mock ExamIncluded
- 6.3CEN Full-Length Adaptive Mock ExamIncluded
- 6.4PCCN Full-Length Adaptive Mock ExamIncluded
- 6.5Exam-Week Protocol: Final Review, Tutor Check-In, and Confidence CalibrationIncluded
Our guarantee
Who it's for
Is this you?
ICU nurses pursuing CCRN
She manages vents and pressors daily but needs a structured framework to translate bedside instinct into board-exam precision on hemodynamics and shock algorithms.
ED nurses targeting CEN
He triages trauma and runs codes but wants adaptive mock boards and timed ATLS case practice that mirror the high-stakes format of the actual CEN exam.
Progressive care RNs going for PCCN
She's ready to prove her step-down expertise is board-level — and needs focused vent mode and telemetry modules that meet the PCCN's specific clinical scope.
Night-shift nurses with no study routine
He's brilliant at the bedside but his rotating schedule has derailed every previous study attempt — the shift-proof calendar and 24/7 tutor are built exactly for him.
Multi-cert RNs taking all three tracks
She's eligible for CCRN, CEN, and PCCN and wants an all-access sequence that builds content across tracks efficiently rather than repeating ground between exams.
Return-to-practice nurses refreshing clinical knowledge
He's back at the bedside after time away and needs the ECG analytics and hemodynamic mastery modules to rebuild clinical authority before sitting for certification.
Questions
Frequently asked
Your Administrator & Founder
A note from NursePrep Academy Founder
C.Brumley, Founder & Admin
If you're reading this, you probably already know you're ready for your certification. You've pushed vaso on a crashing septic patient, you've managed a vent on a 28-week-looking ARDS lung, you've held a family together in the trauma bay at 0100. The clinical hours are there. What's standing between you and those initials after your name isn't competence — it's time, structure, and a prep system that respects both.
I built NursePrep Academy because I got tired of watching sharp, experienced nurses fail their boards — not because they didn't know the medicine, but because they prepped with resources designed for nursing students, not for people who've already been in the room when things go sideways. The CCRN, CEN, and PCCN are not NCLEX. The item writers expect you to think at the level of a clinician who owns the decision, not a new grad who's following protocol. That distinction matters enormously for how you study, and almost nothing on the market is built around it.
Every module in this academy was designed with one filter: does this reflect what the exam actually tests, and does it translate to someone who might have gotten off a twelve-hour night three hours ago? That's why the content is rigorous without being bloated. You'll work through hemodynamic frameworks — waveform interpretation, PA catheter data, shock algorithms — the way a charge nurse thinks through them, not the way a textbook presents them in clean sequential order. You'll drill vent modes and compliance curves and ARDS protocols until the logic is automatic. You'll read telemetry strips at exam speed because that's the only speed that matters when you're sitting for the real thing.
Here's the objection I hear most: "I don't have time to study the way I used to." I hear that. Rotating nights, float pool, mandatory overtime — I'm not going to tell you to carve out two hours every morning. The whole system is built around the reality that your study time is fragmented, unpredictable, and sometimes 15 minutes between patients. The spaced-repetition flashcard engine, the shift-compatible calendar, and the 24/7 tutor exist precisely because your schedule isn't a 9-to-5.
You've already done the hard part. You've earned your seat at the bedside. Now let's get those credentials on your badge to match. The command center is ready when you are — come build your study system, map your weak domains, and let's get you to exam day with nothing left to fear.
— C.Brumley, Founder & Admin
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