Active Learning Starter Pack

Build Your Own Active Learning Bundle

Pick one clinical unit deck, one individual patient scenario, and one set of clinical decision cards tailored to the content you're teaching. Mix and match to meet your classroom needs.

Activity Length

• Clinical Unit decks take 45+ minutes

• Individual Patient decks run about 25+ minutes

• Clinical Decision Cards are flexible, perfect for quick warm-ups, post-conference discussions, or deeper dives.

Perfect for Every Level

Whether you're teaching fundamentals or advanced med-surg, you choose the right decks for your students’ skill level. From early clinical reasoning to complex decision-making, you can choose.

Made for Small Groups

Decks work best with 4-6 students.

Clinical Unit Deck: Students manage multiple patients at once, simulating a full assignment.

Individual Patient Deck: Students focus on managing one patient at a time, diving deep into assessment and decision-making.

Clinical Decision Cards: Use them as a supplement during clinical, an add-on in lab, or a quick critical thinking prompt in class.

Getting Started

How it works

Once you receive the deck in the mail, get your students in small groups. They will work together to complete the case study.

Learn to Play

Watch the Instructional Video

Students scan a QR code to learn how to play the game.

You can check it out yourself too!

Get to Work

Complete the Case Study

Through interactive puzzles within the deck and QR codes that connect to online questions, students must use teamwork, communication, and clinical judgment to complete patient care.

Learning Objectives

Learning objectives for all products are available.

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Every case study deck comes with an answer key and debriefing guide. A sample is provided within each individual deck page.

Online puzzles are a part of every case study deck! Click on individual decks to view.

Practice Alternative Format Questions

The deck is a unique way to present Next-Gen NCLEX-style questions to students through an unfolding scenario.

Scan the code to try it out, or click the button to the right.

Types of alternative question formats include:

Drop-down CLOZE
Drop-down table
Multiple choice
Matrix multiple choice
Select all that apply
Short answer

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Card Deck Case Study?

Avoid the overwhelming and time-consuming task of creating an interactive, engaging activity for your students.

BreakoutRN Active Learning Decks bring puzzles, teamwork, and clinical reasoning practice to any nursing classroom.

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🩺Designed to mirror nursing care at the bedside, students work through gathering and noticing important assessment data, organizing and identifying priority problems, and carrying out nursing interventions.

🗣️Through interactive puzzles within the deck and QR codes that connect to online questions, students must use teamwork, communication, and clinical judgment to complete patient care.

Answer Key and Debriefing Guide

A debriefing guide for the instructor and an answer key accompanies each deck.

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