2024 RRMICN-Rapid Response Mobile Intensive Care Nurse

Certification Description:

Course is designed for critical care nurses. RN license verification is required. Course is available for anyone who seeks the knowledge upon successful course completion contact hours are awarded; however, MICN Certification is only available for Registered Nurses with a valid nursing license.

Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goals have placed emphasis on early recognition and response to changes or worsening of patient conditions in health care settings. This certification provides scenarios for recognition of emergencies within health care and hospital settings.

  • Certification / certificate of course completion upon successful completion
  • RR-MICN Certification available with successful course completion and valid RN license
  • Certification is confidential, repeat at no additional cost
  • Successful completion 85%
  • 6.0 continuing education contact hours
  • Renewal 2 years
  • Certification goals and objectives:
  • Develop and improve critical thinking skills
  • Scenario based case presentation using SBAR model (Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendations)
  • Improve patient outcomes through rapid response and interventions
  • Improve safety within hospitals through rapid assessment, identification and response to changes or deterioration in patient condition
  • Improve recognition and rapid assessment in response to worsening of patient conditions
  • Improve response to worsening of patient condition
  • Improve activation of critical care or rapid response team

Certification Content and Topics:

Identification, assessment and recommended response to the following:

  • Physician notification
  • Rapid Response Intervention
  • Protocols and treatment guidelines and standards of care
  • The role of American Heart Association in Resuscitation Guidelines
  • Sepsis
  • Blood Products and Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC)
  • Anaphylaxis
  • Steven-Johnson Syndrome
  • Stroke
  • Chest pain
  • Acute respiratory distress / Respiratory failure
  • Airway management in emergency situations
  • Intubation
  • Mechanical ventilation / basics of ventilator
  • Pneumothorax
  • Chest tube placement and chest tube basics
  • Sudden cardiac arrest and AED
  • Pneumonia
  • Falls
  • Orthopedic emergencies
  • Acronym for rapid head to toe assessment
  • Pulmonary embolism and DVT
  • Assessment in changes in mental status
  • Dehydration
  • Narcotic administration and respiratory depression / Overdose
  • Abdominal pain /Acute abdominal emergency
  • GI Bleed
  • Hemorrhage control
  • Conscious Sedation
  • Diabetic Emergencies
  • Witnessed Cardiac Arrest
  • Identification Ventricular fibrillation
  • Ventricular Tachycardia
  • Atrial Fibrillation
  • Supraventricular Tachycardia
  • Adenocard /Adenosine
  • Atrial Flutter
  • Pulseless Electrical Activity
  • Electrical Therapy
  • Pulmonary Edema
  • Pharmacology – critical care
  • Epinephrine
  • Atropine
  • Nipride
  • Dobutamine
  • Acronym for Chest Pain Pharmacology- M.O.N.A.B.
  • Emergent Vascular Access including external jugular and intraosseous
  • Facility Transfers and Critical Care Transport
  • Equipment failure
  • Recognition of shock, causes and recommendations
  • Sentinel Events


Course completion includes the following:

Certificate of Course Completion (available online immediately after course completion)Wallet card with course information, requires card holder signature if printed.


Registration Fee:  $125.50

To register, click the link below.