Your Journey to Active Learning Starts Here
A guided membership community for nurse educators who want active learning tools that are easy to prepare, designed to engage students, and built to develop clinical judgment.
You Became a Nurse Educator to Make a Difference
But somewhere along the way, the reality set in. You find yourself teaching alone, often without mentorship, searching for a community of peers who also want to experiment with lecture alternatives, and without the time to redesign your entire course from scratch.
You know your students need more than PowerPoint lectures. You want to engage them, challenge them, help them think like nurses. But where do you even start?
And in the meantime, another semester goes by. Another round of lectures that felt fine but not quite right.
A New Way Forward
The Learning Lab RN gives you a guided path toward an active learning classroom. We avoid the pressure to "flip" everything in a semester. Instead, the motto is just one activity at a time.
Imagine opening your lesson plans and knowing exactly what you're doing on Monday. The activity is ready, your students are going to be engaged and actually thinking, and you built it in about 20 minutes of prep time.
That's what one good activity can do, and this is where you find it.
What's Inside Your Journey to Active Learning
Activity Library
Activity Library
Step-by-step active learning activities with instructional videos, downloadable resources, and reflection prompts. Earn passport stamps for each activity you complete.
Give or Hold
Give or Hold
A pharmacology decision game your students will love. Built for clinical application and critical thinking, it provides short, focused patient presentations and a simple give-or-hold question. Personalized to the medications you want to review.
Worksheet Magic
Worksheet Magic
Customize BreakoutRN's proven worksheet templates for your specific course content in minutes. No design skills needed. Student worksheet and educator answer key are then available for download or to print.
Is the Learning Lab RN Right for You?
This is for you if:
- You want to bring more active learning into your teaching but aren't sure where to start
- You're tired of building activities from scratch with no guarantee they'll work
- You want to slowly work toward active learning, without the pressure to overhaul everything at once
This is probably not the right fit if:
- You're looking for a complete curriculum redesign service
- You need something tied to a specific accreditation or institutional requirement
- You prefer to work entirely independently without community or structure
Your Learning Journey
Three simple steps from signup to unlocking active learning in your classroom.
Join & Get Matched
Sign up and take a short 4-question quiz to find your perfect first activity, without overwhelm, just a clear path forward.
Watch the Lesson
Follow the short video lesson to learn exactly how to run the activity and adapt it to your class, clinical, or lab.
Download & Implement
Grab the ready-to-use template and bring it into your teaching the same week, no hours of prep needed.
Meet Martha
👋 Hello and welcome! I'm a nurse educator and the founder of BreakoutRN. When I moved from the bedside to teaching, I felt the sting of isolation so many of us know. I felt like I was teaching alone, searching for better ways to engage students, and wishing I had someone to bounce ideas off of.
These tools (and the community that is building up around them!) exist because I want every nurse educator to have a clear path toward active learning without feeling overwhelmed by flipping an entire class. Thanks for being here!
Simple Pricing
$97 / 1 year access
Full access to the Activity Library, Give or Hold, Worksheet Magic, and some surprises throughout the year!
Start Your Journey — $97/yearFrequently Asked Questions
Ready to Start Your Journey?
Join a growing community of nurse educators who are unlocking new ways to teach, one activity at a time.
Start Your Journey — $97/year