Virtual clinical excursions (VCE) is a workbook/CD-ROM package that accompanies many Elsevier nursing textbooks. The workbook guides users through Pacific View Regional Hospital, a virtual hospital setting, where one can learn communication, documentation, assessment, and safe medication administration. VCE offers a hands-on learning experience to help nurses improve both clinical judgement and critical thinking skills while interacting with a number of virtual patients.

Introduction to Maternity and Pediatric Nursing - E-Book

One of the most complete nursing education learning systems available, Virtual Clinical Excursions 4.0 (VCE) is an interactive print and online workbook that guides you through a virtual hospital where the patients are real and their conditions are constantly changing. Each lesson features a core reading assignment from Introduction to Maternity and Pediatric Nursing, 8th Edition along with activities based on "visiting" the patients in the hospital. By immersing you in a realistic, yet safe, nursing environment, VCE simulates the average clinical rotation by allowing you to conduct a complete assessment of a patient and set priorities for care, collect information, analyze and interpret data, prepare and administer medications, and reach conclusions about complex problems. This unique virtual setting is the best way to learn about the complexities of patient care by giving you the perfect environment to practice what you've learned. Duration for access to this product, which may be at the discretion of your institution, is up to 36 months. Elsevier reserves the right to restrict or remove access due to changes in product portfolio or other market conditions. Updated drug reference includes a comprehensive set of the latest drug monographs to help you make the best clinical judgments to complete each case. Online workbook lessons guide you throughout the patient scenarios to collect information, make decisions, and set priorities. Vital signs tool within each patient's room allows you to check the patient's status at critical moments, and promotes safe practice. Nurse-client interaction videos depict conversations and situations involving nurses, patients, family members, and hospital staff to help you discern between communications that are ideal and those that need improvement. Unique records that house data from the virtual patient's hospital stay allows you to record new findings to see how the data for different attributes has changed over time. Laboratory guide provides standard value ranges for all laboratory values offered within the virtual patient hospital, so you can confirm and compare standard lab values against your patients' test results. Physical examination experience with unique images and assessment findings advance your understanding of each patient's system assessments. Patient medication administration enhances your ability to think critically about safe medication practices and follow safe medication standards. Allows for easy and quick access to various patient charts, including Physician's Orders, Laboratory Reports, Patient Education, Nursing Admission, and many more. Kardex nursing information regarding patients' acute care provides quick access to vital information such as physician's orders, laboratory reports, patient education, nursing admission, and more, offering a richly detailed portrait of the patient. NEW! Updated content from Introduction to Maternity and Pediatric Nursing, 8th Edition addressed through patient care activities in the VCE workbook, providing you with active learning of the latest evidence-based care.

This convenient, money-saving package is a must-have for practical/vocational nursing students! It includes Leifer's Introduction to Maternity & Pediatric Nursing, 5th edition text and Leifer's Introduction to Maternity & Pediatric Nursing Virtual Clinical Excursions, 5th edition.

This money saving package includes the 6th edition of Introduction to Maternity and Pediatric Nursing Textbook and Virtual Clinical Excursions 3.0.

Completely updated for easier use and more control, VCE Pacific View is a groundbreaking workbook/CD-ROM package that brings learning to life in a "virtual" hospital setting. This guided learning experience features textbook reading assignments that correspond with the CD-ROM and workbook activities. The workbook acts as a map, guiding students through the CD-ROM as they care for patients in the virtual hospital to help students make connections between what they experience through the CD-ROM and what they've learned in their textbook. Each virtual hospital visit allows the student to access realistic information resources essential to patient care resulting in a true-to-life, hands-on learning experience. Users will also discover that this edition of VCE is easier to use with the inclusion of flash-based technology and the elimination of previously needed third-party plug-ins.

Part of the popular LPN Threads series, this leading text provides a solid foundation in obstetrics and pediatric nursing. Its concise, logical organization by developmental stages, discussion of disorders by body system from simple-to-complex and health-to-illness, and a focus on health promotion and on the family make it a complete guide to caring for maternity and pediatric patients. Focuses on family-centered care, health promotion and illness prevention, women's health issues, and growth and development of the child and parent. Covers a wide range of maternal and pediatric care with 35 skills and provides expected outcomes, interventions, and rationales for nursing care 30 nursing care plans. Critical Thinking Questions at the end of each Nursing Care Plan challenge students to evaluate and apply the plan of care to specific clinical situations. Nursing Tips throughout the text provide pertinent information applicable in the clinical setting. Pictorial story of a vaginal birth includes photos through delivery. Cultural considerations as they relate to pregnancy and delivery, maternal/infant, and pediatric care in detailed tables help nurses develop cultural sensitivity when caring for diverse patient populations. Cultural Assessment Data Collection Tool checklist assists the nurse in developing an individualized plan of care. Health Promotion Considerations boxes focus on prenatal wellness, health during pregnancy, postnatal health, and more. Companion CD-ROM, bound with the book, includes videos of both a normal delivery and a cesarian birth, 70 neonatal and pediatric assessment video clips, 3-D animations, audio glossary, and Patient Teaching Plans in Spanish and English. Discusses CPR specifically for the pregnant patient. MyPyramid illustrates the 2005 revised nutrition guidelines from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Provides discussions of changes in clinical care recommendations, including use of Ipecac(R) for poisoning, vaginal birth after caesarian, and pain relief in newborns. Includes the latest content on infectious diseases acquired during pregnancy, sexual abuse, assault, rape in the pediatric population, and the adolescent as a parent. Includes an appendix of JCAHO Lists of Dangerous Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Symbols.