Virtual Clinical Excursions is a workbook/CD-ROM package that guides you through a multi-floor virtual hospital to provide you with a hands-on learning experience. You'll meet a series of pediatric patients at Canyon View Regional Medical Center. Each patient has their own diverse health problems, medical histories, families, cultural backgrounds, and personalities. Via the workbook exercises, you'll actively interact with and assess these patients ... access and review their charts, lab data, and medication administration records ... monitor daily changes when their nurses take their vital signs and perform a variety of tests ... formulate nursing diagnoses ... and plan interventions. Essentially, you can practice making all of the key clinical nursing decisions ... on your own schedule and at your convenience. The enclosed CD-ROM package gives you access to the virtual hospital. The workbook guides you through the Well-Child Clinic and the Pediatric Floor. You'll learn communication, documentation, assessment, critical thinking, and other essential skills. You'll also be called on to collect information, make decisions, and set priorities. Each lesson has a reading assignment from Wong's Essentials of Pediatric Nursing, as well as activities that call on you to "visit" the pediatric patients in Canyon View Regional Medical Center. The workbook exercises provide a perfect environment in which you can practice what you are learning from the textbook. The result is a uniquely hands-on way to master essential nursing knowledge.

This money-saving package includes the 9th edition of Wong's Essentials of Pediatric Nursing Textbook and Virtual Clinical Excursions 3.0 for Wong's Essentials of Pediatric Nursing.

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.

This groundbreaking CD-ROM brings learning to life in a virtual hospital setting. Each virtual hospital visit allows the student to access realistic information resources essential to patient care. The result is a true-to-life, hands-on learning experience. A different set of scenarios available on ISBN 0323032826.

This money-saving package includes Hockenberry's Wong's Nursing Care of Infants and Children, 9th edition textbook and Wong's Nursing Care of Infants and Children Virtual Clinical Excursion 3.0.

Clinical Case Studies for the Family Nurse Practitioner is a key resource for advanced practice nurses and graduate students seeking to test their skills in assessing, diagnosing, and managing cases in family and primary care. Composed of more than 70 cases ranging from common to unique, the book compiles years of experience from experts in the field. It is organized chronologically, presenting cases from neonatal to geriatric care in a standard approach built on the SOAP format. This includes differential diagnosis and a series of critical thinking questions ideal for self-assessment or classroom use.