Every clinical claim we make has a name behind it.

[Hero image: Chelsey Rodgers teaching in a clinical or classroom setting.]

Every clinical claim we make has a name behind it.

RN Ascend is built on a simple standard: every clinical piece we publish is created or reviewed by a working clinical instructor. Not a content team. Not an algorithm. A nurse who has spent decades at the bedside and now teaches the next generation. This page is who that is.

Chelsey Rodgers, BSN, RN

Founder and Chief Clinical Officer

[Photo: Chelsey Rodgers professional headshot.]

Chelsey is a registered nurse with over 20 years of experience and a pediatric clinical instructor at Chandler-Gilbert Community College, where she teaches hands-on patient care to nursing students.

She earned her BSN from the University of New Mexico in 2005 and built her career in pediatric and neonatal critical care, including more than a decade at the bedside in pediatric ICUs at UNM Hospital, Presbyterian Hospital, Seattle Children's, Denver Children's, and Swedish Medical Center, along with travel nursing assignments across the country. She holds active RN licenses in four states: Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Washington.

In 2019, Chelsey founded Tribe RN, a nursing education products company that sold hundreds of thousands of clinical tools to nursing students and working nurses nationwide. That work proved what RN Ascend is built on: students will invest in tools that solve real clinical problems when those tools are designed by clinicians who understand the problem.

Every piece of clinical content RN Ascend produces passes through Chelsey. That is the quality bar, and it does not move.

The team behind the brand

Chelsey leads a small team of nurses, educators, and designers who share one belief: nursing education deserves better tools than the field currently offers. Our educators contribute clinical perspective across specialties, from med-surg to pharmacology to pediatrics. Our designers have years of experience producing study materials that nurses actually want to carry into clinical.

Every product and every page moves through the team for clinical accuracy review before it reaches a student. A flashcard is not finished when it looks good. It is finished when it is clinically correct and it teaches the reasoning, not just the fact.

Why clinical authority matters

Nursing education is full of content produced by marketing teams and AI tools. Some of it is even accurate. Almost none of it captures how a nurse actually thinks through a patient: the assessment that comes first, the detail that changes the plan, the difference between textbook pharmacology and the pharmacology you use on your first shift.

Clinical instructors live in that gap. They see exactly where students get stuck and what new graduates wish they had known sooner. Building RN Ascend on that perspective is not a marketing decision. It is the product.

Want to see what that standard produces? Explore our clinical tools or read the RN Ascend story.