Introduction to Maternity and Pediatric Nursing, Virtual Clinical Excursions - Obstetrics-Pediatrics

Feature: Online Workbook

Description: A series of electronic workbook lessons containing a variety of activities that compliment your obstetrics textbook.

Benefit: Guides you throughout the patient scenarios to collect information, make decisions and set priorities.

Feature: Clinical Reports

Description: Complete shift and period of care reports are available for all patients.

Benefit: Offers a quick reference to easily review the patient’s previous summary of care.

Feature: Physical Examination

Description: Provides a physical examination experience with unique images and assessment findings for each patient scenario.

Benefit: Advances your understanding of each patient’s system assessments.

Feature: Medication Administration

Description: Provides a medication administration element that allows preparation and administration of patient medications.

Benefit: Enhances your ability to think critically about safe medication practices and follow safe medication standards.

Feature: Patient Chart

Description: Comprehensive chart information available for all patients.

Benefit: Allows for easy and quick access to various patient charts, such as Physician’s Orders, Laboratory Reports, Patient education, Nursing Admission, and many more.

Feature: Patient Electronic Patient Record

Description: Unique patient records that house data from the patient’s hospital stay and offers the ability to record new data findings.

Benefit: Allows you to see how the data for different attributes have changed over time.

Feature: Kardex

Description: Contains nursing information regarding patients’ acute care.

Benefit: Provides quick access to the nursing needs and observations, pertaining to your patient?s care.

Feature: Nurse-Client Interaction Videos

Description: Videos depicting interactions between nurses, patients, family members, hospital staff.

Benefit: 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.

Feature: Drug Reference

Description: In-product drug reference with up-to-date and recently reviewed drug monographs for all drugs used within the virtual hospital.

Benefit: Presents a comprehensive set of drug monographs to help you make best clinical judgment to complete your case.

Feature: Vital Signs

Description: 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.

Benefit: Allows you to check your patient’s status at critical moments, and promotes safe practice.

Feature: Online capabilities

Description: Virtual Clinical Excursions is now online and accessible from any PC, MAC or Tablet.

Benefit: Users no longer have to use and keep track of CDs.

Feature: Laboratory Guide

Description: Offers normal value ranges for all laboratory values offered within the virtual patient hospital.

Benefit: Allows you to confirm and compare normal laboratory values against that of their patients’ test results.

Gloria Leifer, MA, RN, CNE, is a professor of obstetric and pediatric nursing at Riverside City College in Riverside, California. Gloria has been the lead author on this title for all eight editions.