For nurses and nursing students

Emergency cases from the other side of the handoff.

Code Status is a medical simulation game for iPhone and Android. You play the treating clinician. You take the history, examine the patient, order the tests, give the treatment and decide whether the patient goes home or stays. Every case opens with a handoff, from the nurse or from EMS, the way a real one does.

For nurses and nursing students, that means seeing the reasoning behind the orders you carry out, and the early signs that a patient is getting worse.

The Michael Turner case as it opens in Code Status: Rachel, the nurse, gives the handoff beside the patient in bed, above a Begin Encounter button.

What you practice

Catch the patient getting worse.
Some patients look stable at first, then change. Patients improve or get worse based on your decisions.
Understand the orders.
Why a test is ordered, why one treatment comes before another, and what the results mean. After every case, Attending’s Notes explains what mattered and why, with 10 cited sources per case, linked to the originals.
Manage a cardiac arrest.
When a patient goes into cardiac arrest, Code Mode gives you compressions, cycles, and a cause you have to find while the clock runs.

What it is not

Code Status is not an NCLEX review course. It does not teach nursing care plans or nursing diagnoses, and it does not award continuing education credit. Every patient is fictional, and it is for training only.

Cases to start with

See all 30 cases

New to emergency care? 11 of the 30 cases are Beginner: spot the pattern and give the standard care.

Teaching nursing 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).