Beyond Practice Questions
Question banks help you review what you know. Bedside Coach helps learners apply it through SBAR handoff, assessment, prioritization, delegation, escalation, reassessment, and debrief across realistic patient scenarios.
Requirements: iPhone and iPad require iOS 27 or iPadOS 27. The native Apple Vision Pro app requires visionOS 26.4 or later. Apple Watch live cues and learner alerts require a compatible connected iPhone and watchOS 26 or later.
Complete Guide 2.2
Share the guide with learners, faculty, and simulation teams before they open Bedside Coach. It covers bedside and telehealth practice, medications and pumps, teaching and feedback, rubrics and case import, and faculty workflows.
Free to view, download, or share with your program.
Choose Your Path
Whether you are practicing on your own, evaluating learners, supporting transition-to-practice, or exploring spatial simulation, start with the path that matches what you need.
Practice clinical judgment, communication, medication workflows, and bedside confidence.
Requirements: iPhone and iPad require iOS 27 or iPadOS 27. The native Apple Vision Pro app requires visionOS 26.4 or later. Apple Watch live cues and learner alerts require a compatible connected iPhone and watchOS 26 or later.
Use reports, custom cases, test sessions, and structured coaching for simulation learning.
Support transition-to-practice, remediation, prioritization, and escalation practice.
Layer clinical context over real bedside practice in Apple Vision Pro.
The Bedside Coach Family
Explore the patient record in ChartSlate, prepare and review the room with Sibyl Sim, carry compatible cases into Bedside Coach Pro, and keep simulation updates close at hand with Apple Watch support.
EHR Simulation
Create and explore simulated electronic health records for active, privacy-first clinical learning.
Local Private Sim Control
Prepare, run, observe, record, and review learning scenarios across iPhone and iPad.
Apple Watch Companion
Receive case updates, acknowledge key events, or send discreet haptic direction through a nearby Bluetooth connection designed for simulation.
Bedside Coach Pro
Export Full Instructor or Student Safe packages and bring compatible ChartSlate content into Bedside Coach Pro.
Beyond Study Guides
Students already use AI to build nursing study guides and review plans. When they ask what the best app for nursing school is, the missing piece is usually application. Bedside Coach fills that gap through handoff, assessment, intervention, prioritization, escalation, and feedback you can actually use.
Turn study guides, instructor feedback, and weak spots into applied nursing practice.
Move beyond conversation into actual nursing actions, reassessment, and decision-making.
Practice prioritization, escalation, and response under pressure in realistic scenarios.
Session Flow
Choose RN or LVN/LPN, select one of 12 supported state-aligned practice standards, then move through SBAR handoff, assessment, intervention, unfolding case changes, and guided reflection.
Study Buddy
If AI helps you make the study guide, Study Buddy helps you use it. Enter a topic, diagnosis, setting, or communication challenge and get one guided session with a case, a therapeutic communication scenario, and trivia built around the same goal.
Move through case practice, communication, and trivia without starting over each time.
Build a session around instructor feedback, exam review topics, or a weak spot you want to fix.
Get a guided three-step run that turns knowledge review into usable practice.
Case Study Mode
Case Study mode helps students practice clinical judgment the way it is used in real patient care. Instead of isolated questions, each case follows one patient across 6 connected questions.
As the case progresses, new information appears, including lab results, medication orders, and patient concerns, so you keep reassessing and responding instead of answering in a vacuum.
Work through one patient across six linked questions instead of disconnected quiz items.
Labs, medication orders, and patient concerns appear as the case unfolds so the learner has to reassess.
Each case follows recognize cues, analyze cues, prioritize hypotheses, generate solutions, take action, and evaluate outcomes.
Realistic Patient Context
Multi-Patient Mode
Multi-Patient Mode challenges learners to manage up to 3 patients in one practice session. Each patient begins with an interactive SBAR handoff, each room keeps its own monitor state, vitals, pump setup, and care progress, and learners must decide where to go next as needs change.
This is the true clinical assignment mode: prioritize care, delegate CNA/UAP tasks, respond to updates from other rooms, and get graded on room selection, delegation, and response to changing patient needs.
Choose a pre-selected assignment or build your own, with safeguards that avoid unsafe or unrealistic patient combinations.
Switch rooms while vitals, monitors, pumps, and care progress remain specific to each patient.
Practice organization, CNA/UAP delegation, follow-up reports, and response to competing patient needs.
Role-Aware Practice
Bedside Coach now lets users choose RN or LVN/LPN before a session begins. Objectives, rubric expectations, and coaching feedback then reflect that role, instead of forcing every learner into one generic national standard.
Supported state-aligned practice standards currently include California, New York, Texas, Florida, Nevada, Arizona, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Utah, North Carolina, and Virginia.
Cases are built from academic references and continuously strengthened through nurse peer review. Current scored reviews average 3.84 / 4.00 across realism, cues, priorities, and safety framing. See the References page for details.
Pick the practicing role first so the scenario expectations match the learner, not a generic default.
Choose from 12 supported state standards so the scenario expectations better reflect the practice rules you are preparing to work within.
Objectives, rubric scoring, and coaching feedback change with the role and scope you selected.
Immediate Results
After each run, Bedside Coach guides you through a short reflection, then highlights strengths and improvement areas and generates a shareable PDF report for instructor review. PDF exports align with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1, Level AA, and include transcript, CJMM rubric, and coaching notes that reflect the role and scope selected for that session.
Medication + Device Workflow
Choose from three IV pump styles, run fluids in real time, resolve occlusion alerts, and watch patient status respond to medication actions.
Choose from three IV pump styles, enter ordered rates and volumes, start infusions, and monitor until completion.
Run IV medication and feeding pump steps for NG and G-tube orders in the same scenario.
Scan patient and medication barcodes with camera or paired Bluetooth scanner, and generate printable barcodes in-app.
Introducing Apple Watch Support
Bedside Coach for Apple Watch helps learners and simulation teams stay connected to the scenario through timely case updates, distinct haptic alerts, and discreet simulated-participant cues, all through a nearby Bluetooth connection.
See new results, incoming requests, warnings, and critical updates; track elapsed time; review recent events; replay alert haptics; and acknowledge key updates from the wrist.
Send Proceed, Wait, Escalate, Tone Down, or custom instructions to selected standardized and simulated participants without interrupting the scenario.
Self Cue Practice and Operator Practice help participants learn the meaning and rhythm of every haptic pattern before simulation begins.
Connect nearby Watches over Bluetooth, target one participant or all connected actors, and review recent cue activity without relying on Wi-Fi.
Apple Watch live cues and learner alerts require a compatible connected iPhone and watchOS 26 or later.
New for Bedside Coach Pro
Bedside Coach and ChartSlate use portable case files to carry compatible chart content and learning activities between experiences. Export for faculty or learners, share locally, or import ChartSlate content into Bedside Coach for further simulation authoring.
Full Instructor retains expected actions, rationales, scoring, role behavior, and teaching context. Student Safe removes answer keys and instructor-only scoring details.
Portable cases can include history, vitals, medications, orders, diagnostics, assessments, objectives, roles, timeline events, chart hunts, handoff challenges, and priority sorting.
Review case origin, privacy classification, instructor-content status, compatible sections, warnings, and details that still need Bedside-specific authoring.
Add patient voice and behavior, expected actions, critical interventions, provider and family interactions, timing, pump setup, and bedside-specific coaching.
Local, user-directed sharing. Export through the system Share Sheet to Files, AirDrop, or another destination you choose, without automatic cloud upload or live synchronization.
ChartSlate import and export require Bedside Coach Pro. Intended only for simulated educational cases, not clinical records or EHR integration. Imported cases should be reviewed before learner use.
Apple Vision Pro + visionOS
Bedside Coach brings clinical simulation into Apple Vision Pro, layering digital patient conversations, live vital signs, clinical records, alerts, and coaching over the real simulation space.
Learners still assess, communicate, scan, verify, manage equipment, and respond with their own hands. Vision Pro becomes a clinical layer over bedside care, not a replacement for it.
Study highlight
40 of 60 learners (66.7%) selected spatial simulation as best preparing pre-licensure RN students to manage a real stroke patient. This is a measure of perceived preparation. It does not establish demonstrated clinical competence or transfer to practice.
Custom Cases (Pro)
Create scenarios using your own objectives. Share via AirDrop, or generate one or multiple QR codes depending on case complexity.
No internet connection needed to share cases via QR.
Base vs Pro
Unlimited runs, wellness checks, and low-risk scenarios across fundamentals, med-surg, mental health, pediatrics, maternal health, plus WCAG 2.1 Level AA-aligned PDF report export.
Everything in Base, plus advanced/high-risk scenarios and Custom Case Creator to build, send, and receive cases offline via AirDrop or QR.
Bedside Coach Pro $4.99 or Bedside Coach Pro Yearly $49.99. Start with free practice content. Bedside Coach Pro unlocks additional cases, advanced activities, and custom case creation through an auto-renewing subscription.
Test Sessions (Learner + Proctor)
Create a test session that pairs a learner with a proctor for structured evaluation. Use standardized scenarios, observe performance live, and keep documentation consistent across checkoffs and skills validation.
Requirements: iPhone and iPad require iOS 27 or iPadOS 27. The native Apple Vision Pro app requires visionOS 26.4 or later. Apple Watch live cues and learner alerts require a compatible connected iPhone and watchOS 26 or later.
Debrief Coaching For Faculty
Debrief Coaching is an AI-supported faculty development tool for simulation educators. Instructors start a session, place the device nearby, and lead the debrief as usual. After the debrief formally ends and learners leave, Bedside Coach analyzes the conversation and gives private, timestamped facilitation feedback.
No live prompts during the debrief. Faculty review coaching afterward, when it can support reflection without disrupting learners.
Review open-ended questions, learner reasoning, psychological safety, advocacy-inquiry, and faculty/student talk balance.
Jump from timestamped coaching notes to the related transcript and audio moment when feedback needs more context.
Telehealth Practice
Telehealth simulates a remote nursing conversation. Speak as the nurse, or type while you are muted, and pause for the patient's reply. No real patient or emergency service is connected.
Version 2.2
Version 2.2 is updated for iOS & iPadOS 27+ and visionOS 27+, with Apple Intelligence for model-powered features. Supported conversations, study planning, and feedback use Apple's on-device model when available. Apple Intelligence features require a compatible device, Apple Intelligence enabled, and a downloaded, available model; availability varies by language and region.
Adjust enhanced readability, reduced motion, larger touch targets, persistent captions, and status text alongside color cues.
Questions Students Ask AI
This section is here for people, not keyword stuffing. It answers the exact questions nursing students often ask search engines and AI tools when they are trying to find the best app for nursing school.
The best app for nursing school depends on what you need. If you want a place to apply nursing knowledge through handoff, assessment, intervention, medication administration, prioritization, and coaching feedback, Bedside Coach is built for that gap.
No. Therapeutic communication is one part of Bedside Coach, but the app also trains assessment, medication workflows, pump programming, barcode scanning, prioritization, escalation, and reflection after each run.
Yes. Bedside Coach includes a nursing role picker so learners can choose RN or LVN/LPN. Objectives, rubric expectations, and coaching feedback adjust to the practicing role you selected.
Yes. Bedside Coach uses role-aware and state-aligned practice standards instead of one generic national rubric. Current supported state standards include California, New York, Texas, Florida, Nevada, Arizona, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Utah, North Carolina, and Virginia.
AI study guides can help you organize information. Bedside Coach gives you a place to apply that information through handoff, assessment, intervention, prioritization, escalation, and coaching feedback.
Yes. Core practice is designed to work offline, and session data stays on device by default. Internet access is mainly used for subscription verification and related App Store services.
Yes. Bedside Coach publishes a references page and continuously strengthens cases through nurse peer review. Current scored reviews average 3.84 out of 4.00 across realism, cues, priorities, and safety framing.
For the research and source material behind the app, see the References page.
Founder
I am Brandon Dominguez, DNP, MSN-Ed, RN, CHSE. Bedside Coach was built from real bedside experience to train the full nursing workflow: handoff, assessment, intervention, communication, prioritization, and reflective debriefing without rigid menus or Wi-Fi barriers.
Brandon Dominguez, DNP, MSN-Ed, RN, CHSE | Founder
Ready to Start?
Practice real nursing actions and clinical judgment anywhere, with coaching feedback that goes beyond communication alone.
Requirements: iPhone and iPad require iOS 27 or iPadOS 27. The native Apple Vision Pro app requires visionOS 26.4 or later. Apple Watch live cues and learner alerts require a compatible connected iPhone and watchOS 26 or later.