Shock Run

What it is

Shock Run is a hallway runner set inside a whole hospital. The Hospital Map has 24 units, from Pharmacy (level 1) all the way to the ED (level 24). You switch lanes, jump, and slide down the hall, grabbing unit tokens and glowing crash cart meds while the monitor patient behind you gets sicker.

When that patient tips over, the run pauses for a Code Pause: 2 to 3 questions from that unit's own board, drawn from 3,600 questions. Read the clues on the screen (warm flushed skin, a BNP of 1,850, a lactate of 4.2, hives and wheeze) and call the shock. Clues get trickier as you climb tiers, from clear pictures to decoys, mixed pictures, and rapid decline.

Codes happen too. Adult floors run ACLS and BLS, Peds and PICU run weight-based PALS, and the NICU runs NRP. You push CPR at 100 to 120 a minute and let the chest recoil. Points buy shoes, scrubs, and pins in the Locker Room, and Learning mode turns the timer off when you want to study every step.

What you'll learn

• Tell hypovolemic, cardiogenic, septic, anaphylactic, neurogenic, and obstructive shock apart from their clue clusters
• Read the rhythm in a code and pick the right ACLS move
• Weight-based PALS thinking for kids and NRP basics for newborns
• CPR quality: rate of 100 to 120 a minute with full chest recoil
• Which crash cart meds go with which emergency
• Unit-specific NCLEX content from Pharmacy to the ED, including med math under time pressure

How it helps you

NCLEX tests clinical judgment, using NCSBN's Clinical Judgment Measurement Model. Every NURSYN game is built on the nursing process. Shock Run works these ADPIE steps: Assessment, Diagnosis, Implementation.

• Every Code Pause is the NCJMM in fast forward: recognize cues, analyze them, and take action before the patient declines
• Repeated retrieval under pressure builds the instant recall you need when a real monitor alarms
• Decoy clues train you to rule out the shiny wrong answer, a classic NCLEX trap
• Free play lets you drill your own specialty, and badges need 80% correct, so mastery is built in

How to play

1. Pick a unit on the Hospital Map (or turn on Free play to jump to your specialty)
2. Run: swipe or use the arrow keys to switch lanes, jump, and slide. Grab tokens and crash cart meds
3. At a Code Pause, read the findings and answer 2 to 3 questions from that unit's board
4. Steer into waving staff to run codes: ACLS, PALS, or NRP depending on the unit
5. Push CPR at 100 to 120 a minute, then spend your points in the Locker Room

Clinical topics covered

Sources

The clinical content and the teaching approach behind this game line up with these references.

1. 2025 AHA Guidelines for CPR and Emergency Cardiovascular CareAmerican Heart Association. The current resuscitation guidelines behind BLS, ACLS, and PALS.
2. Neonatal Resuscitation Program, 9th EditionAmerican Academy of Pediatrics. The NRP edition built on the latest AHA and AAP neonatal resuscitation guidelines.
3. Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International Guidelines for Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock 2021Society of Critical Care Medicine. The adult sepsis and septic shock guideline: early recognition, fluids, antibiotics, and MAP targets.
4. 2026 NCLEX-RN Test PlanNational Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN). The official blueprint for what the NCLEX-RN covers, organized by Client Needs.
5. Game-thinking: utilizing serious games and gamification in nursing education, a systematic review and meta-analysis (Nylén-Eriksen et al., 2025). BMC Medical EducationBMC Medical Education. Pooled studies show serious games and gamification work in nursing education, with the strongest benefit for knowledge and a more modest effect on skills.