For nurse practitioner students
Know an emergency when it walks in.
Most nurse practitioner students train in family or primary care, where clinical rotations often include little or no emergency department time. Emergencies still arrive at clinics, urgent care and telehealth visits, and the first clinician to see them has to recognize them. Code Status is a medical simulation game for iPhone and Android that lets you practice those calls on fictional patients first.
As a nurse, you carried out the plan. Here, you make it. The cases are set in an emergency department: you question, examine and test the patient, then own the diagnosis, the treatment and where they go next.
What you practice
Spot the patient who cannot wait.
Every case starts with a complaint that could be routine or serious. Read the vital signs, examine and decide whether this patient needs action now.
Make the diagnosis and the plan.
Commit to a diagnosis, choose the treatment and decide where the patient goes. Each case is scored on diagnosis, workup, treatment, timing and disposition.
See what mattered and why.
After every case, Attending’s Notes walks through the key decisions, with 10 cited sources linked to the originals.
See how it teaches: free lessons from the cases.
What it is not
Code Status is not an AANP or ANCC certification review or question bank, and it does not award course credit or count toward clinical hours. The cases are adult emergency presentations. Every patient is fictional, and it is for training only.
Cases to start with
See all 31 casesNew to emergency care? 12 of the 31 cases are Beginner: spot the pattern and give the standard care.
Precepting NP students?
Send a learner into a case, then talk through the decisions they made. Every case closes with sourced teaching, and scores are teaching feedback, not an assessment of competence. Tell us what you need.
Play two complete cases, free.
For iPhone (iOS 16.4 or later) and Android phones (Android 7.0 or later).