RN Ascend Clinicals are the reference cards nursing students carry on rotation: the 54-card Badge Cards set that clips behind your ID badge, the 96-card Pocket Cards set that slides flat into a scrub pocket, and the 150-card Clinical Survival Bundle with both. Every card is double-sided and organized by body system, so you can find a lab value, a rhythm, or a med fact in seconds at the bedside. Designed by clinical instructors.
Coverage spans general medical, cardiac, respiratory, neuro, OB and L&D, pediatrics, pharmacology, and lab values, with Spanish phrases included. These are not study cards you file away after the exam; they are the reference you reach for when a patient is in front of you and you need the number now.
Badge cards or pocket cards: which do you need?
Badge Cards (3.3 x 2.1 in) live behind your ID and cover the highest-yield facts. Pocket Cards (3.7 x 4.9 in) go deeper on each system with room for more detail per card. Most students on clinical rotation start with badge cards; the bundle exists because by the end of first semester most students want both.
Can you use reference cards during clinicals?
Most programs and clinical sites allow personal quick references, and instructors generally prefer that you look up a value rather than guess. Check your program's policy first.
What comes in the Clinical Survival Bundle?
All 54 badge cards and all 96 pocket cards, 150 double-sided cards and 300 printed references in one kit, priced below buying the sets separately.