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You have a CCRN date. Hold it. Between now and then: 498 questions with every option explained, two timed 150-question practice exams, a 12-day plan that opens with a 32-question diagnostic. No login, no expiry.
We built this the way a charge nurse teaches a new hire on nights, not the way a shelf gets filled. AACN gives you three hours for 150 items: 125 scored, 25 unscored pretest items you cannot pick out. Clinical Judgment carries about 80 percent of the scoring, the Synergy Model the other 20. Cardiovascular is the heaviest system at 17 percent, pulmonary next at 15, then shock, sepsis and multisystem at 14. Your twelve evenings are split the same way. Check us against AACN's published test plan. We would rather you did.
What's inside
A 32-question diagnostic before Day 1. It names the system quietly costing you, so twelve evenings land where they change your score.
Ten ICU system days, sized to the blueprint. Cardiovascular, pulmonary and multisystem shock come first and run longest. Neurologic, gastrointestinal, renal, endocrine, hematologic, musculoskeletal and behavioral each hold a day of their own.
Two Synergy Model days at the full 20 percent. Advocacy and moral agency, caring practices, collaboration, systems thinking, response to diversity, clinical inquiry, facilitation of learning.
498 original questions, every option explained. Read the ABG or the hemodynamic profile, choose the intervention, and you'll see why the tempting answer costs the point.
Two practice exams at 150 items, the length you actually sit, weighted 80/20. Cumulative reviews after Day 6 and Day 12 pull the early systems back out before they fade.
Original figures drawn for this book: hemodynamic profiles, ventilator and shock decision paths, acid-base maps, and one answer dissected in full. Maybe you have bought a certification book that turned out to be a textbook with a quiz bolted on. Give this one three evenings. If the diagnostic tells you nothing about your weak systems that you did not already know, put it down. An hour is all it cost.
Three kinds of reader open this book. An ICU nurse sitting the Adult CCRN for the first time. A nurse coming back to recertify. A step-down nurse moving into critical care. If titrating pressors is already your day job, start at Day 2.
Day 3 is a hard evening: shock, sepsis, MODS and toxicology, one after another. You will finish it anyway, and you'll find the rest of the plan easier. Downloaded once, yours to keep.
— The Passmark Publishing Team
An independent study guide from Passmark Publishing. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the AACN Certification Corporation. AACN, CCRN and the AACN Synergy Model are trademarks of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses and its certification corporation. For exam preparation only; not medical advice.
We built this the way a charge nurse teaches a new hire on nights, not the way a shelf gets filled. AACN gives you three hours for 150 items: 125 scored, 25 unscored pretest items you cannot pick out. Clinical Judgment carries about 80 percent of the scoring, the Synergy Model the other 20. Cardiovascular is the heaviest system at 17 percent, pulmonary next at 15, then shock, sepsis and multisystem at 14. Your twelve evenings are split the same way. Check us against AACN's published test plan. We would rather you did.
What's inside
A 32-question diagnostic before Day 1. It names the system quietly costing you, so twelve evenings land where they change your score.
Ten ICU system days, sized to the blueprint. Cardiovascular, pulmonary and multisystem shock come first and run longest. Neurologic, gastrointestinal, renal, endocrine, hematologic, musculoskeletal and behavioral each hold a day of their own.
Two Synergy Model days at the full 20 percent. Advocacy and moral agency, caring practices, collaboration, systems thinking, response to diversity, clinical inquiry, facilitation of learning.
498 original questions, every option explained. Read the ABG or the hemodynamic profile, choose the intervention, and you'll see why the tempting answer costs the point.
Two practice exams at 150 items, the length you actually sit, weighted 80/20. Cumulative reviews after Day 6 and Day 12 pull the early systems back out before they fade.
Original figures drawn for this book: hemodynamic profiles, ventilator and shock decision paths, acid-base maps, and one answer dissected in full. Maybe you have bought a certification book that turned out to be a textbook with a quiz bolted on. Give this one three evenings. If the diagnostic tells you nothing about your weak systems that you did not already know, put it down. An hour is all it cost.
Three kinds of reader open this book. An ICU nurse sitting the Adult CCRN for the first time. A nurse coming back to recertify. A step-down nurse moving into critical care. If titrating pressors is already your day job, start at Day 2.
Day 3 is a hard evening: shock, sepsis, MODS and toxicology, one after another. You will finish it anyway, and you'll find the rest of the plan easier. Downloaded once, yours to keep.
— The Passmark Publishing Team
An independent study guide from Passmark Publishing. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the AACN Certification Corporation. AACN, CCRN and the AACN Synergy Model are trademarks of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses and its certification corporation. For exam preparation only; not medical advice.
You have a CCRN date. Hold it. Between now and then: 498 questions with every option explained, two timed 150-question practice exams, a 12-day plan that opens with a 32-question diagnostic. No login, no expiry.
We built this the way a charge nurse teaches a new hire on nights, not the way a sh...
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Passmark builds one kind of book: the one that makes your study hours count. We start from a simple conviction — a certification exam is a skills test, not a memory test — so we never hand you a wall of facts to reread. Our method comes from the science of how memory actually holds: you learn by retrieving, not rereading; you revisit on a widening schedule so it sticks; every answer is explained, right and wrong, so you keep the reasoning; and a diagnostic points your hours where they will move your score. We read each exam's current blueprint ourselves, write every question from scratch, and check every number in the book — question counts, domain weights, practice tests — against the finished pages, not the marketing. When an exam changes, our books change with it.
Passmark builds one kind of book: the one that makes your study hours count. We start from a simple conviction — a certification exam is a skills test, not a memory test — so we never hand you a wall of facts to reread. Our method comes from the science of how memory actually holds: you learn by ...
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