Virtual Clinical Excursions Online and Print Workbook for Introduction to Maternity and Pediatric Nursing

by Gloria Leifer

Online Workbook  A series of electronic workbook lessons containing a variety of activities that compliment your obstetrics textbook.  Guides you throughout the patient scenarios to collect information, make decisions and set priorities.  Clinical Reports  Complete shift and period of care reports are available for all patients.  Offers a quick reference to easily review the patient’s previous summary of care.  Physical Examination  Provides a physical examination experience with unique images and assessment findings for each patient scenario.  Advances your understanding of each patient’s system assessments.  Medication Administration  Provides a medication administration element that allows preparation and administration of patient medications.  Enhances your ability to think critically about safe medication practices and follow safe medication standards.  Patient Chart  Comprehensive chart information available for all patients.  Allows for easy and quick access to various patient charts, such as Physician’s Orders, Laboratory Reports, Patient education, Nursing Admission, and many more.  Patient Electronic Patient Record  Unique patient records that house data from the patient’s hospital stay and offers the ability to record new data findings.  Allows you to see how the data for different attributes have changed over time.  Kardex  Contains nursing information regarding patients’ acute care.  Provides quick access to the nursing needs and observations, pertaining to your patient?s care.  Nurse-Client Interaction Videos  Videos depicting interactions between nurses, patients, family members, hospital staff.  Allows you to learn more about what is occurring with a patient at a certain time and also prompts you to discern between communications that are ideal and those that need improvement.  Drug Reference  In-product drug reference with up-to-date and recently reviewed drug monographs for all drugs used within the virtual hospital.  Presents a comprehensive set of drug monographs to help you make best clinical judgment to complete your case.  Vital Signs  Provides a vital signs tool within each patient’s room that measures the patient’s blood pressure, oxygen saturation, temperature, heart rate, respiratory rate and pain level.  Allows you to check your patient’s status at critical moments, and promotes safe practice. Online capabilities  Virtual Clinical Excursions is now online and accessible from any PC, MAC or Tablet.  Users no longer have to use and keep track of CDs.  Laboratory Guide  Offers normal value ranges for all laboratory values offered within the virtual patient hospital.  Allows you to confirm and compare normal laboratory values against that of their patients’ test results.

256 pages, Paperback

First published September 29, 2014