Free Online Games to Help Nurses Practice Our Craft. If you’re looking for free nursing games that make studying and clinical review more engaging, these are some of the best options I’ve found.
As nurses, I believe we are all life-long learners. The medical environment is ever-changing and we have a responsibility to keep up with the latest knowledge, equipment, and skills. One of the easiest and most fun ways I find I can keep my skills sharp is by putting them to the test with a few well-designed and medically accurate games. No, I don’t sit around with my tweezers and play Operation all day (although I own and do play this game on occasion). Below, I’m listing my five favorite games that you can play to practice your craft and keep your nurse skills honed to a razor’s edge.
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The Blood Typing Game
To be found on the actual Nobel Prize website, this interactive game starts you off collecting a type and screen for a patient and determining the patient’s blood type. Then, you choose what blood types are safe for transfusion. I nerded out playing this game and enjoyed the sound effects as well as the knowledge. It’s a great practice tool for remembering which blood types are compatible.
https://educationalgames.nobelprize.org/educational/medicine/bloodtypinggame/gamev3/index.html
SkillStat ECG Simulator
This is my personal favorite. SkillStat is an amazing ECG-learning tool that both teaches you all about the different cardiac rhythms but also has a fun quiz mode. You can watch the rhythms as a live simulation scrolling across the monitor or mouse-over them to pause and evaluate more closely. I recommend this game to anyone who wants to practice their ECG interpretation.
https://www.skillstat.com/tools/ecg-simulator/#/-home
LearningNurse Games @ The Nurse Learning Center
For years, LearningNurse.org was one of our go-to recommendations here on the blog — a labor of love built by Russell Sawchuk, featuring over 150 nursing quiz games covering everything from med-surg to pharmacology. If you were around back then, you probably used it to cram before an exam or brush up on a topic you hadn’t touched since nursing school.
That same quiz library now lives here on TheNewRN, inside the Nurse Learning Center. Russell generously passed the whole collection on to us so it could keep serving nursing students and working nurses in one place, alongside the rest of our free tools and resources. You’ll still find the same depth and range of categories that made the original site so useful — pick a specific topic to drill down on, or bounce around to keep your studying varied and low-pressure. Whether you’re prepping for an exam or just want a quick, low-stakes way to refresh on an area of nursing you don’t see often, these quizzes are still one of the fastest ways to turn downtime into study time. Same great quizzes, new home — and our thanks to Russell for building something worth carrying forward.
TheNewRN.com/nurse-learning-center
More free nursing games to build your clinical skills:
RN Dash!
Studying for the NCLEX or a med-surg exam is one thing — thinking on your feet during a chaotic shift is another. That’s the gap RN Dash is built to close. It’s a fast-paced browser game where you play as one of six nurse characters racing through a hospital shift, collecting essential supplies like medications and IV bags while dodging hazards like wet floors and loose tubing.
Every so often, the action pauses for a rapid clinical question — a real nursing scenario where you have to make the right call under a countdown timer, just like you would on the floor. Answer correctly and you keep your streak and multiplier climbing; answer wrong, and it costs you. The goal isn’t just a high score — it’s building the instinct to prioritize and assess quickly, which is exactly the skill that separates confident new nurses from overwhelmed ones.
It’s completely free to play, works right in your browser on desktop or mobile, and takes less than a minute to jump into. Whether you’re cramming for boards or just want a study break that still counts as practice, RN Dash turns clinical judgment into something you can actually train, not just memorize. Pick your nurse, hit the floor, and see how long you can keep your patients safe.
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Full Code
Another stellar mobile game, Full Code is available in the Apple Appstore as well as the Google Play store and online to play on your computer via their website. This game is a well-polished and medically-accurate simulation that, in most cases, puts you in the shoes of a resident physician in the ER managing a patient.
A nurse and attending physician are available to help you along as you assess, order imaging and medications, and even arrange for consults. You can spend hours playing the free cases in this game and have a lot of fun doing it.
The best part is this game seems to update regularly. I was very surprised to begin playing a case where a patient presented with COVID symptoms. I thought, “Nahh there’s no way that’s what they are driving at because I’ve had the game on my phone for years!” Sure enough, the latest update included COVID cases, complete with the most up-to-date courses of treatment!