Aura Anesthesia
Built by a CRNA, for nurse anesthesia residents

Survive school and get to boards — in one place.

Aura is the study partner you start on day one of didactic year — not the week before boards. Upload your own slides, notes, and recorded lectures, and Aura turns them into quizzes, flashcards, and an AI tutor. Pass your program exams now, and walk into the NCE with far less to relearn.

Learn it once. Keep it fresh. Arrive ready.

A different kind of prep

Most board banks hand you someone else's questions the month before the NCE.

Aura works from your course material, starting the day you start school. You're not choosing between studying for this week's program exam and prepping for boards later — it's the same work, in the same place, the whole way through.

One place, the whole program

Didactic year to board day — here's what you get along the way.

Study from your own material

Upload your program's slides, notes, and handouts. Aura reads them and builds quizzes, flashcards, and tutor answers from YOUR professor's actual curriculum — not a generic outline.

Turn lectures into study material

Record your pharmacology lecture, upload the audio, and Aura turns it into searchable, quizzable notes — so nothing you heard in class gets lost by finals.

An AI tutor that talks like a preceptor

Aura asks before it tells, in AANA language — not generic med-ed speak. It catches errors in your slides and adjusts your plan when a concept isn't clicking.

Flashcards that make it stick

Spaced-repetition cards (SM-2) with your own mnemonics keep didactic-year material fresh straight through to board day — so you relearn far less later.

Every NBCRNA question format

A 4,850+ item bank across all 7 content domains, with multi-select, drag-drop, and calculation items — the exact formats the NBCRNA uses on the NCE. Not just MCQs.

A roadmap tied to your dates

Your week-by-week plan adapts to your quiz performance and your real exam dates — program exams and the NCE alike — so you always know what to study next.

Frequently asked questions

Is this only for board prep, or for the whole program?

The whole program. Aura is built to start in didactic year: upload your course material as you learn it, pass your program exams, and keep that material fresh with spaced repetition so you walk into the NCE with far less to relearn. Clinical-year and final board prep work the same way — it's one place start to finish.

Is this built for NARs specifically?

Yes. Aura Anesthesia was built by a practicing CRNA specifically for nurse anesthesia residents. Every feature — the question bank, the AI tutor, the study roadmap — is grounded in AANA practice standards and the NBCRNA content outline.

Can I upload my own class materials?

Yes — that's the point. Upload your program's slides, lecture notes (PDF or Word), or audio recordings of class. Aura reads your materials and builds quizzes, flashcards, and tutor answers from YOUR professor's actual curriculum, organized into class folders so you can study one course at a time.

What is the NCE?

The National Certification Exam (NCE) is the credentialing exam administered by the NBCRNA that every nurse anesthesia graduate must pass to become a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA).

How many questions are on the NCE?

The NCE is a computer-adaptive test of 100 to 170 questions covering basic sciences, equipment and technology, basic principles of anesthesia, and advanced principles of anesthesia.

How should I study for the NCE?

Most NARs combine a question bank with spaced repetition, blueprint-aligned cheat sheets, and timed mock exams. Aura Anesthesia delivers all three in a mobile-first app built specifically for NARs.

Is Aura Anesthesia free to try?

Yes — create an account in under a minute and start practicing adaptive NCE-style questions right away.