Virtual Clinical Excursions 2.0 to Accompany Fundamental Concepts and Skills for Nursing, 1e

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 patients at Canyon View Regional Medical Center, each with 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, and the workbook guides you through the Surgery Department, Intensive Care Unit, and Medical-Surgical/Telemetry 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 Fundamental Concepts and Skills for Nursing, as well as activities that call on you to "visit" the adult 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. Book jacket.Susan C. deWit MSN RN CNS PHN is the author of 'Virtual Clinical Excursions 2.0 to Accompany Fundamental Concepts and Skills for Nursing, 1e', published 2003 under ISBN 9780721602899 and ISBN 0721602894.