Virtual Clinical Excursions to Accompany Medical Surgical Nursing (Workbook with CD-ROM)

Introducing Virtual Clinical Excursions -- a new breed of workbook that is now a critical component of several of Mosby and W.B. Saunders most prominent nursing texts. Inside, an extraordinary new CD-ROM provides an incredibly true-to-life simulation of clinical practice! This CD-ROM features a virtual hospital setting with five unique patients. These patients have their own diverse health problems, medical histories, families, cultural backgrounds, and personalities. You can access the patients, 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. In short, you can practice making all of the clinical decisions that lie at the heart of nursing...on your own schedule and at your own convenience! This workbook sends you into the virtual hospital setting to learn communication, documentation, assessment, critical thinking, and other essential skills. It also calls on you to collect information, make decisions, and set priorities. Each lesson has a reading assignment from Black, Hawks, & Keene: Medical-Surgical Nursing: Clinical Management for Positive Outcomes, Sixth Edition, as well as activities that call on you to "visit" the patients in the virtual hospital. The workbook exercises provide a perfect environment in which you can practice what you are learning from the text.Joyce M. Black PhD RN CPSN CWCN FAPWCA is the author of 'Virtual Clinical Excursions to Accompany Medical Surgical Nursing (Workbook with CD-ROM)', published 2002 under ISBN 9780721697215 and ISBN 0721697216.