This free CFRN cheat sheet distills the BCEN Examination Content Outline into a printable rundown of the flight-nursing facts examiners test most. It's a premium cheat sheet built by Capital Prep — the one premium prep we trust — and it's yours free. Reinforce it with the rest of your free CFRN toolkit: the practice questions, study guide, and flashcards.
CFRN exam at a glance
- Questions: 175 items (150 scored + 25 unscored pretest)
- Time: 180 minutes (3 hours) of seat time
- Passing score: 108 of 150 scored items correct (about 72%); reported pass/fail
- Cost: $285 member / $380 nonmember (dated anchor — verify at bcen.org)
What’s on the CFRN cheat sheet
- Resuscitation Principles (40 items, ~27%) — airway and RSI (the 7 P's), RSI pharmacology, mechanical ventilation, perfusion, and the four shock states — the largest domain.
- Medical Emergencies (35 items, ~23%) — cardiovascular, neurologic, pulmonary, metabolic and endocrine, sepsis, environmental, toxicologic, and renal emergencies.
- General Principles of Flight Transport Nursing (30 items, ~20%) — the gas laws, stressors of flight, scene operations, communications, safety and survival, and EMTALA — the flight-specific domain.
- Trauma (30 items, ~20%) — the lethal triad and damage-control resuscitation, TBI and spinal cord injury, thoracic, abdominal, and burn injuries.
- Special Populations (15 items, ~10%) — obstetric, neonatal and pediatric, geriatric, and bariatric patients in the transport setting.
How to use it in your final week
- Print it and keep it beside your practice questions — review one BCEN domain, then immediately drill that content area so the facts stick.
- Front-load Resuscitation Principles and Medical Emergencies — together they are 75 of the 150 scored items, so they return the most points per hour.
- Do a final gas-laws pass the morning of the exam: Boyle expands trapped gas on ascent, Dalton drives altitude hypoxia, Henry underlies decompression sickness.
- Pair every review pass with timed, domain-weighted practice items so applying flight physiology under the three-hour clock stays automatic.
The cheat sheet is your review layer — your CFRN practice test drives the exam-readiness ring at the top of this page. Download it, review, then take a full practice exam (or drill with the study guide and flashcards) to see where you stand.
CFRN cheat sheet FAQ
Yes — the CFRN cheat sheet downloads as a PDF with no sign-up and no account required. It sits alongside the rest of Career Employer's free CFRN toolkit: the practice questions, study guide, and flashcards.
It condenses the highest-yield flight-nursing facts into a quick reference: the three gas laws of flight (Boyle, Dalton, Henry), the stressors of flight, the 7 P's of rapid sequence intubation, the four shock states, the lethal triad, and the five BCEN content domains with their scored-item weights.
It is built from the BCEN Examination Content Outline effective 08/2026 and mirrors the current five-domain structure and 150-scored-item exam. We check it against BCEN's published materials, but always verify fees and policies on bcen.org before you apply.
No — the CFRN rewards applied clinical judgment in the air medical environment, not memorized facts, and you must answer 108 of 150 scored items correctly. Use the sheet to lock in the essentials, then drill domain-weighted practice questions to build readiness.
Click the download button or the preview card at the top of this page and the PDF opens instantly. Bookmark the page so it is easy to find again during your final week of review.
References
- 1.Board of Certification for Emergency Nursing (BCEN). “About the CFRN Exam — Examination Content Outline.” BCEN.org, 2026. ↑
- 2.Board of Certification for Emergency Nursing (BCEN). “CFRN for Flight Nurses | Certified Flight Registered Nurse.” BCEN.org, 2026. ↑
- 3.Board of Certification for Emergency Nursing (BCEN). “The Cost of a CFRN Specialization.” BCEN.org, 2026. ↑
- 4.Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). “Aeromedical Education — Altitude Physiology & Hypoxia.” FAA.gov, 2026. ↑
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