CCRN Certification Prep
AACN Faculty
Ace the CCRN exam! Prepare with this comprehensive online course in critical care nursing, taught by AACN faculty.
More resources on Critical Care Nursing
aacn.org
AACN.org is the official site of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, serving as the professional hub for critical care nursing. It provides practice standards and position statements, certification and continuing education (including CCRN prep), journals, clinical resources, and advocacy to advance high-quality critical care.
AllNurses.com
Long-running nursing community forum's critical care section, where ICU and stepdown nurses discuss orientation, drips, ventilator management, staffing, and certification. Useful for seeing how practising nurses handle situations that textbooks describe only in general terms.
FreshRN.com
Articles and checklists for new ICU nurses written by a former neurocritical care nurse, covering common drips, ventilator basics, hand-off report, time management, and the skills and diagnoses to master first. Practical orientation-stage material rather than exam content.
Critical Care Nursing: Diagnosis and Management
Body-system textbook pairing pathophysiology with nursing assessment, diagnostic tests, and management plans across cardiovascular, pulmonary, neurologic, renal, and multisystem disorders in the ICU. Standard reference for intensive care nurses and CCRN candidates.
AACN Essentials of Critical Care Nursing
Reference from the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses covering assessment, hemodynamic monitoring, ventilation, and organ-system emergencies. Readers finish able to recognize deterioration in unstable patients and justify common ICU interventions.
allnurses.com
AllNurses.com is a comprehensive nursing community and resource hub for nurses and nursing students. It features forums, articles, and career resources, plus a job board and clinical topic coverage for professional development.