The Nursing Education Platform Built for the Nurses Who Need It Most
Specialty transition. Veteran-centered care. Evidence-based practice. Built by a combat medic who became a VA nurse.
Nursing specialty transitions fail nurses. Veteran patients fall through the gaps.
of nurses are equipped to provide veteran-centered care
Simoni et al., J Mil Veterans Health, 2024
nurses leave their specialty within the first year of transition
Nursing workforce research (NSI Nursing Solutions, 2024)
of veterans receive care in civilian healthcare settings
HunterSeven Foundation, 2024
What AscendRN is
AscendRN is a complete nursing specialty education platform covering three critical needs:
Specialty Transition
15 specialty curricula with gap analysis, adaptive case studies, and evidence-based content. Know what you don't know. Close the gap. Prove you closed it.
Veteran-Centered Care
The only platform with veteran care woven through every specialty. 30 adaptive case studies. 165 quiz questions. Free for every nurse — always.
Best Practice Standards
Evidence-based bundles from IHI, Joint Commission, AHRQ, and ISMP integrated throughout every specialty curriculum.
How it works
Identify your gaps
Gap analysis pinpoints exactly what you don't know in your specialty.
Close your gaps
Targeted lessons, adaptive case studies, and best-practice content fill the gap.
Prove you closed them
Pre and post assessments with documented improvement scores.
Earn your credential
VCS credential — Bronze, Silver, Gold — shows employers you've done the work.
Built for the educators who build great nurses
The Veteran-Centered Care Specialist (VCS) Credential — the first of its kind.
No national credential for veteran-centered nursing care exists anywhere in the United States. AscendRN is building it.
Verifiable. Downloadable. Career-defining.
Verify a credential → ascendrn.net/verifyBuilt by someone who lived it.
Scott A. Lincoln served as a U.S. Army Combat Medic with the 101st Airborne Division, 2nd Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment during the 2010–2011 deployment to Afghanistan. After leaving the Army, Scott became a Registered Nurse and joined the Lexington VA Medical Center.
He saw what happens when civilian nurses encounter veteran patients without the tools to care for them. He built AscendRN to change that — starting with the most comprehensive veteran-centered nursing curriculum available anywhere, free to every nurse.
Because veterans deserve a nurse who knows their history.
Scott A. Lincoln, RN
U.S. Army Combat Medic
101st Airborne · Afghanistan 2010–2011
Founder, AscendRN
Every claim is traceable. Every source is real.
AscendRN clinical content is referenced to authoritative sources including VA/DoD Clinical Practice Guidelines, AACN, ENA, AORN, AWHONN, AHA/ACC, IHI, The Joint Commission, and ISMP. Our complete source library is publicly available.
View Sources →Pursuing ANCC accreditation for nursing continuing professional development credit.
One platform. Every specialty. Every educator in their own lane.
Contact us for institutional pricing: admin@ascendrn.net
Ready to close the gap?
AscendRN is pursuing ANCC accreditation as a nursing continuing professional development provider. Content hours shown are estimated educational time. The VCS credential is issued by AscendRN and is not currently accredited by an external credentialing body. CCRN, CEN, PCCN, CNOR, RNC-OB, and CMSRN are trademarks of their respective certification bodies. AscendRN is not affiliated with or endorsed by these organizations.