• Duration

    163 hours

  • Learners

    95+

  • Video

    17 hours

    Welcome to Your CCRN Exam Review!

    Equipped for Excellence. Ready for Anything.

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    Welcome to At the Ready Medical Education, where critical care mastery begins with understanding — not memorization. You’ve officially joined a learning experience built by ICU nurses, for ICU nurses. Every element of this course was designed to help you think like a clinician, reason like an expert, and feel confident walking into your CCRN exam — and back into your next shift.


    This isn’t a one-size-fits-all review. It’s a dynamic, flexible system that adapts to how you learn best. Whether you prefer structured reading, immersive visuals, or question-based practice, each path leads you toward the same goal: a deep, working knowledge of critical care that lasts far beyond test day.
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    Your Learning Tools

    Each component of the course is meant to complement the others. You can explore them in any order, but we recommend starting with the Study Guide Module and layering the others as you go.

    Study Guide Learning Module

    This is your foundation — a pathophysiology-driven guide that turns complex concepts into clarity. Each chapter explains the why behind the what, grounding clinical reasoning in physiology and evidence-based care.

    Comprehensive Book

    For learners who like to dig beneath the surface, the Comprehensive Book expands on each topic with resident-level detail. It connects receptor-level pharmacology, hemodynamics, and nursing rationale — the kind of understanding that helps you handle any exam question or real-world crisis.

    Video Lessons

    Prefer to learn by watching and listening? The video lectures bring every concept to life with clinical examples, visual diagrams, and educator-guided explanations. It’s like attending a masterclass from your favorite critical care mentor.

    Knowledge Checks

    Each chapter includes targeted questions designed to reinforce understanding, not rote recall. Every answer includes a detailed rationale explaining why it’s right — and why the others aren’t. This turns every question into a micro-lesson that sharpens both recall and reasoning.

    Question Bank

    Thousands of questions with detailed rationales await. You have the option to focus one specific topics, or take full-length practice tests. With our extensive question bank, you will get new questions every time!
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    How to Get Started

    Choose Your Path

    Start with what fits your learning style best — read, watch, or test yourself.
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    Set Your Pace

    The portal remembers where you left off so you can study on your own schedule.
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    Track Your Progress

    Each completed module unlocks deeper understanding and greater confidence.
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    Your journey is self-directed, but you’re never alone. Our team of critical care educators built this program to feel like mentorship — guiding you from knowledge to mastery one concept at a time.

    Not Enough Time For the Full Course?

    Limited Time? Use the CCRN Question Bank to test your knowledge and identify your areas of weakness. Know where you stand before the exam.

    course contents

    What's included?

    Detailed Review

    Detailed review of critical components of the CCRN exam. 

    Multiple Learning Styles

    This course is presented in different modalities to best fit your preferred learning styles. From comprehensive text-book style chapters, learning modules, extensive questions banks, and video presentations--there is a modality that best fits your needs. There are knowledge checks throughout the module to ensure retention.

    In-Depth Review

    Want to go deeper? Check out our comprehensive text-book which provides more detailed explanation and rationale.
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