noctuRNe
NARRATIVELY ENHANCED CONTINUING EDUCATION FOR NURSES
The night shift knows your name.
And it has stories to tell.
Nursing and the Paranormal Are Natural Partners
Long before the scientific method, healers stood at the boundary between life and death. Nurses inherited this legacy—the late-night vigils, the liminal spaces, the moments when something changes before the monitor even alarms. noctuRNe explores what occurs when a nurse with her grandmother's gift finds herself at St. Catherine's Memorial.
Seven Nights
Experience a complete narrative arc across seven episodic overnight shifts, each building tension and clinical complexity.
Nursing-Focused Scenarios
Navigate authentic nursing challenges—patient advocacy, team communication, escalation decisions, and clinical assessment.
Atmospheric Tension
Slow-burn supernatural dread, not jump scares. Something wrong in your peripheral vision. The kind of unease that follows you home.
Team Dynamics
Form connections with hospital staff, navigate hierarchies, and make decisions that affect both patients and colleagues.
Rachel Torres, RN
32 years old. Tejana travel nurse from Laredo. Med-surg certified with a quiet reputation for catching what others miss—the early warning signs before the monitor alarms, the pause before a patient says "I'm fine," the way a family member keeps glancing at the door.
Her grandmother was a curandera who taught her that the body speaks in languages beyond the chart. She took this assignment for the change and the challenge. Your nursing judgment IS the gameplay—you make the clinical decisions, navigate team dynamics, and advocate for your patients.
"La muerte no se va a ningún lado, mija. Death doesn't go anywhere."
ANCC Continuing Education Credit
noctuRNe Pro offers ANCC CE credit for nurses seeking continuing education that doesn't feel like a chore. Same rigorous clinical content, delivered through an experience you'll actually remember.
Ready to join the waitlist, or want to learn more?
Two Ways to Experience the Night Shift
Both versions share the same seven-episode narrative arc and supernatural atmosphere. They differ in clinical depth and CE accreditation. Episode 1 will be free for both.
noctuRNe
For Registered Nurses
$1.99
$9.99
The supernatural experience adapted for nursing practice. Navigate night shift scenarios from a nursing perspective with authentic clinical decisions and team dynamics.
- Nursing-adapted narrative
- RN-focused clinical scenarios
- Night shift authenticity
- Team dynamics emphasis
- Patient advocacy decisions
- Multiple story endings
noctuRNe Pro
CE Credit Edition
$11.99
$64.99
Earn ANCC CE credit while experiencing the full supernatural narrative. Designed for nurses seeking continuing education that actually engages.
- ~1.75 ANCC Contact Hours per episode
- Full nursing accreditation
- Complex patient scenarios
- Evidence-based content
- Professional documentation
- CE certificate included
Seven Nights Per Episode
Each episode spans seven complete overnight shifts, building both clinical challenges and supernatural mystery. The noctuRNe series is currently in development.
Coming Soon
7 Nights
The noctuRNe experience brings the same supernatural atmosphere and seven-night structure to nursing practice. Navigate night shift scenarios from a nursing perspective, where patient advocacy and team dynamics take center stage.
Untitled
7 Nights
Future episode. Details to be revealed.
Untitled
7 Nights
Future episode. Details to be revealed.
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About NerdcoreMedical
NerdcoreMedical
NerdcoreMedical has spent more than a decade building medical education products that clinicians actually want to engage with. Founded on the premise that learning medicine doesn't have to be a joyless exercise in passive consumption, we create games, art, and interactive experiences that meet clinicians where they live—curious, time-pressured, and deeply committed to staying sharp.
Our catalog spans tabletop card games, clinical reference tools, and the Curative Design series of clinician-created medical illustration posters—products born from the conviction that great medical education is also, in some meaningful sense, great design.
We're a physician-led company. That means clinical accuracy isn't a feature—it's a floor. And it means we're unafraid to build things the medical education establishment hasn't tried before.
Visit NerdcoreMedicalNerdcoreMedical Digital
NerdcoreMedical Digital is the company's interactive fiction studio, and its founding thesis is simple: the most effective continuing medical education you'll ever experience might feel less like a lecture and more like a very good story that refuses to let you go.
We call it Narratively Enhanced CME—the deliberate fusion of literary craft, psychological atmosphere, and rigorous clinical content into experiences that are genuinely hard to put down. Our inaugural projects, Locums Nocturnist and noctuRNe, follow clinicians navigating high-stakes overnight shifts at a small hospital where not everything can be explained by the differential.
These aren't edutainment products dressed up in dark clothes. The clinical content is co-developed with practicing nurses, grounded in real inpatient medicine—volume overload, ACS, GI bleeds, ICU escalation—and designed to surface the systems-thinking that separates good clinicians from great ones.
This is what medical education looks like when you stop apologizing for being interesting.
For Physicians
Locums Nocturnist offers an accessible base version for the clinically curious and a Pro tier carrying AMA PRA Category 1 CME credit.
For Nurses
noctuRNe brings the same seven-episode arc and atmosphere to nursing practice, with a Pro tier offering ANCC CE credit—reaching the more than four million registered nurses whose continuing education landscape has been dramatically underserved by imagination.