Virtual Clinical Excursions 3.0 for Wong's Essentials of Pediatric Nursing

By Marilyn J. Hockenberry, Marilyn Winkelstein, David M. Wilson

Book Overview

One of the most complete nursing education learning systems available, Virtual Clinical Excursions guides you through a virtual hospital setting where the patients are real and their conditions are constantly changing. By immersing yourself in a realistic, yet safe, nursing environment, VCE allows you to get acclimated to the routine and rigors of the average clinical rotation where you can conduct a complete assessment of a patient and set priorities for care, collect data, analyze and interpret data, prepare and administer medications, and reach conclusions about complex problems. Each lesson has a textbook reading assignment and activities based on "visiting" the patients in the hospital, which provide a perfect environment in which you may "practice" what you are learning. The CD-ROM uses streaming videos to represent patients just as you would see them in a hospital setting and gives you access to highly detailed patient records - including charts, medication administration records, a Kardex-type plan of care, a drug guide, and an extensive electronic patient record system that has data for each client from the time of their admission throughout their simulation.Promotes active learning as you collect information and process data for evidence-based patient care. Includes five unique patients/cases, each with complex medical conditions. Allows you to monitor and care for one or more patients during four, 45-minute periods of care within a 12-hour shift. Workbook lessons complement the content of the textbook and link reading assignments with patients in the virtual hospital. Online workbook lessons allow you to complete assignments online. Exposes you to realistic information resources, such as the EPR, MAR, and patient charts, to prepare you for managing data and decision-making on the floor. A Medication Room contains a wide variety of drug storage areas. A medication administration function allows you to select, prepare, and administer medications. Contains over 55 common medication errors embedded within the software to boost clinical realism and reinforce the precepts of safe medication administration in a harm-free environment. Includes a Drug Guide with drug monographs for all medications used within the program. Fully integrates psychosocial aspects of nursing through nurse-client interaction videos that underscore the psychosocial component of patient care. Clinical Alerts highlight major changes in each patient's condition. An Online Testing Program with over 250 NCLEX(R) exam-style questions on each patient/case allows you to measure your understanding of the content and access your relevant clinical judgment.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0323057578
• ISBN13: 9780323057578
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Mosby
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.5" x 0.5" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

My Peds book

The book came clean with no marks inside or out and was sent quickly. Thanks so much.

the pediatric nursing Bible

Ever since I became a nurse Wong's Pediatric Nursing has become the Bible for 'peds nurses'- always up to date and informative

Essentials of Pediatric Nursing

With the textbook of over 1200 pages to read and remember in 15 weeks, this study guide enables me to focus on the highlights of the chapters.

One of the best nursing texts this student has encountered so far ...

I've been through a lot of textbooks on my journey to and through nursing school, and Wong's Essentials is, without doubt, one of the very best! -- Thorough, concise, up to date ... I'm planing on keeping my copy around as a reference even after I've passed the NCLEX. I wish that I could say the same about most of the other nursing texts I've been assigned thus far.

WONG'S ESSENTIALS OF PEDS

Great book! I like the format. It is an "easy read" next to other text books. Very clear and concise. I had no problem find the information I needed for my PBL's (problem based learning) in this book. I have not used the EXCURSIONS program, but am anxious to use it. In glancing through the workbook, the computer program is set up like a hospital. You are given patients and must determine their treatment/care. The workbook has sections for you to work through. This is not a requirement for my program, but I think it will be an asset.