Which study material for CFRN?

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I’ve gotta take the exam soon. I’m a paramedic, ICU RN, currently ground transport RN at a very high level hospital, lots of critical patients. I was also a pilot for a little while, so I know aviation terms and principles.

what resource do you recommend to study for the CFRN exam? 

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Specializes in Emergency room, Critical care flight nurse.

Hey! I took Solheim's CFRN review and found that it focused best on the nursing parts for the CFRN vs. the FP-C. Will Wingfield's is newly redone and up-to-date. It was the best overall for applicable knowledge, and I learned A LOT from it. Every time I listen to it, I learn something new.

Know the gas laws for sure. The test was more about critical thinking than recalling facts. No drug dosages or anything. ABG interpretation, but way beyond acidosis or alkalosis- it would jump to vent adjustments based on the ABGs and detecting problems. Let me know if you have any other questions. Hope that helps!

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Specializes in ICU, Trauma, CCT,Emergency, Flight, OR Nursing.

I highly recommend Holleran, Frakes and Wolfe' Principles and Practice of Transport Nursing ! Also ASTNA's CFRN/ CTRN exam prep review book with hundreds of questions. BCEN also has Practice exams for both the CFRN and CTRN exam. 

I will say though that if you are not doing Flight nursing and have no experience as a Flight nurse , but work as a CCT RN, I would recommend doing the CTRN exam. The CFRN focuses a lot of scene response (911 type response) as well as disaster management , navigation etc so you need some experience in those areas in order to be able to answer the questions.

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55 minutes ago, RickyRescueRN said:

I highly recommend Holleran, Frakes and Wolfe' Principles and Practice of Transport Nursing ! Also ASTNA's CFRN/ CTRN exam prep review book with hundreds of questions. BCEN also has Practice exams for both the CFRN and CTRN exam. 

I will say though that if you are not doing Flight nursing and have no experience as a Flight nurse , but work as a CCT RN, I would recommend doing the CTRN exam. The CFRN focuses a lot of scene response (911 type response) as well as disaster management , navigation etc so you need some experience in those areas in order to be able to answer the questions.

thanks. I do have scene experience as a paramedic. I’m definitely taking CFRN in case I decide to do flight one day. I love my ground program to much to leave there, but one day I might so I would rather just have CFRN.

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