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AcuityReady

Recall what matters
when acuity rises.

CCRN, CEN and TNCC practice that connects clinical understanding with retrieval. Learn the why. Make it memorable. Recall it again.

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CCRN Adult Critical Care

Adult CCRN supplemental practice, organized using AACN’s test plan effective November 12, 2025. Includes clinical judgment and professional caring. This focused bank is not a full exam simulation or a passing-score prediction.

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Commit first. Understand the decision. Build a cue. Retrieve it again.

Focus areaSet length

This block includes 10 questions. Short mixed sets are shuffled, not exam-weighted.

Pace target: 12:00

Scaled from 150 questions in 180 minutes. Yellow at 70% elapsed; red at 100%. Continue after zero with no penalty. The timer keeps running during rationale review.

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THE RECALL LOOP

RetrieveCommit before the explanation.
UnderstandConnect the cue, mechanism and action.
EncodeUse a concise hook or your chosen music genre.
Retrieve againReturn later and explain without the cue.

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Circulation: pump, volume, obstruction

Cool skin, low urine output and confusion suggest poor flow. Congestion with low output favors pump failure. Tamponade restricts filling. Validate pressure measurements against the patient and waveform.

Recall: What explains the low flow?

Respiratory: oxygen is not ventilation

Assess the patient first when an alarm sounds. Check airway, tube and circuit. Use lung-protective ventilation for ARDS. A high saturation on oxygen can hide hypoventilation.

Recall: Is air moving, not just oxygen reading high?

Endocrine and electrolytes

DKA can deplete total-body potassium despite an initially high serum value. Monitor during insulin treatment. Use a safe route for hypoglycemia rescue. Dilute polyuria with rising sodium suggests free-water loss.

Recall: Where is the water or potassium moving?

Blood and coagulation

Suspected transfusion reaction: stop the product and activate the response. DIC can cause clotting and bleeding together. A platelet fall with thrombosis during heparin exposure raises concern for HIT.

Recall: Is treatment causing a new threat?

Kidney, gut and skin

For oliguria, assess perfusion, renal injury and obstruction. New abdominal distention with organ dysfunction needs evaluation. Reassess feeding during instability. Offload pressure and inspect device contact sites.

Recall: What changed, and which organs show it?

Brain and behavior

Cerebral perfusion pressure is approximated by MAP minus ICP. Prevent hypoxia and hypotension. Trend neurologic components and pupils. New inattention or agitation needs a search for reversible causes.

Recall: Which new finding cannot wait?

Sepsis and multisystem care

Support perfusion, treat infection and address source control. After initial fluids, reassess responsiveness and overload risk. Do not give fluid solely to normalize lactate. Norepinephrine is generally first-line in adult septic shock.

Recall: Will the next intervention improve the mechanism?

Professional caring and ethical practice

Protect the informed patient’s voice. Use teach-back and individualized communication. Clarify goals, delegate within competence and scope, and hand off pending work with explicit ownership. Measure the effect of improvement efforts.

Recall: Whose goals guide the plan, and who owns the next step?

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Matched sources, scope and updates

All questions, teaching explanations and downloadable sheets are original NursingNotes.org study content. The uploaded reference books are not distributed here.

CCRN COMPLETE STUDY GUIDE 2026.pdf

Secondary reference for adult critical-care concepts. Older exam weights in this guide are superseded by the current AACN test plan.

AACN Adult CCRN resources ↗

Source check: 2026-09-15. Review affected content when AACN, BCEN or ENA publishes a relevant test-plan, course-edition or clinical update. These specialty resources do not use the AHA five-year cycle. Source editions and the last source check are recorded here; this is not an automated monitoring service.

Independent supplemental education. This practice does not award certification, course credit or TNCC provider verification. CCRN, CEN and TNCC identify their respective certification or course owners; no affiliation or endorsement is claimed.