The Neighborhood is an online learning platform designed to enhance nursing education, distributed by Pearson Health Science.   The Neighborhood presents unfolding stories about a virtual community populated by diverse characters - including families, nurses and physicians.  The Neighborhood also includes institutions representing various health care settings, and a weekly Neighborhood newspaper.  The interrelated character stories, enhanced with video clips, photos, biographical information, and medical records, reflect the health care issues and illnesses represented in a typical population, as reported by the CDC.  This longitudinal case study crosses the entire nursing curriculum, and is designed to be used by instructors in any course or course type to allow students to more easily connect what they are learning with patient experience.    The Neighborhood was developed by Jean Giddens, PhD, professor of nursing at the College of Nursing at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.

The Neighborhood Student Access Code Card, Season One

Medical Books

Jean Giddens

Nursing

Pearson

Organized by body system, this text presents a straightforward, visual approach to conducting a physical examination, with a unique delineation between the routine exam and exams for special circumstances or advanced practice. This new edition presents assessment content in a consistent, two-column format with an emphasis on risk factors and health promotion, and how to alter the exam for clients of various ages or with situational variations. Using a nursing-oriented, holistic focus, Wilson has separate chapters on developmental assessment, ethnic and cultural considerations, mental health assessment, pain assessment, sleep and rest assessment, and nutritional assessment. And with an appealing full-color design that features 950 illustrations, critical thinking questions, case studies, documentation examples and activities, users can be sure that this is one of the best-illustrated and clearest assessment texts available. Instructor resources also available: contact your sales representative for details.
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<li>Procedures and Techniques with Normal Findings contain step-by-step color photos and Abnormal Findings in a 2-column, tabular format </li>
<li>Separate sections on Age-Related Variations and Clients with Situational Variations highlight how to vary the exam for these specific clients </li>
<li>Critical Thinking Exercises and Case Studies focus on clinical situations designed to test critical thinking skills </li>
<li>Risk Factors provided for each system to promote a wellness perspective </li>
<li>Documentation Samples and Documentation Activities provide a practice-context for client charting </li>
<li>Separate chapters for ethnic and cultural variations, developmental, mental health, sleep, nutritional, and pain assessment </li>
<li>Basic Skills distinguished from Advanced Practice Skills and identified with a special icon throughout the text </li>
<li>Equipment lists for every system exam to facilitate student preparation </li>
<li>Ethnic and Cultural Variations boxes present specific differences to anticipate among today's multicultural client population</li>
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<li>Unique differentiation between the routine exam and additional exam steps needed for special circumstances or advanced practice </li>
<li>Health Promotion boxes outline Healthy People 2010 objectives and recommendations for reducing risk and promoting wellness </li>
<li>Frequently Asked Questions answers commonly asked questions about health assessment </li>
<li>NCLEX„¥ examination-style review questions with answers at the end of the book </li>
<li>28 heart and lung sounds added into a new section on the Interactive Student CD-ROM </li>
<li>Interactive Activity Lists at the ends of chapters define CD exercises to foster integration of text and electronic student resources</li>
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Health Assessment for Nursing Practice: Text, Student Lab Guide and Interactive Student CD-ROM Package

Susan Wilson

Mosby

A multi-floor, virtual hospital, VCE 2.0: Canyon View Regional Medical Center contains 14 patient rooms with five floors ― a Well Child Clinic, a Pediatrics Floor, a Surgery Department, an Intensive Care Unit, and a Medical-Surgical Telemetry Floor. These patients are included in VCE 2.0: Canyon View Regional Medical Center:
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<li>Darlene Martin Ms. Martin, age 49, was admitted with uterine leiomyomata, irregular periods, and endometrial hyperplasia. She opts for a total abdominal hysterectomy.</li>
<li>James Franklin Mr. Franklin, age 67, admitted after experiencing episodic light-headedness, left arm and left leg numbness, and one episode of expressive aphasia. He undergoes a carotid endarterectomy.</li>
<li>James Story Mr. Story, age 42, has renal failure and Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus. He arrives complaining of significant weakness, nausea, and an increasingly edematous right arm.</li>
<li>Paul Jungerson Mr. Jungerson, age 61, complains of persistent left lower quadrant abdominal pain that has lasted for 3 days. Diagnosed with a coloanal anastomosis disruption, he undergoes a colostomy.</li>
<li>Elizabeth Washington Ms. Washington, age 63, is admitted following an automobile accident which fractures her hip.</li>
<li>Tom Handy Mr. Handy, age 62, is admitted for a right upper lobectomy with bronchoscopy for moderately differentiated squamous cell carcinoma of the right lung.</li>
<li>Julia Parker Ms. Parker, age 55, is admitted with indigestion and mid back pain. She suffers a myocardial infarction.</li>
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<li>Includes a guided tutorial which shows students how to work with a patient in the virtual hospital · collect patient data from various sources (reports, charts, medication administration record, short video clips and audio clips of nurse-patient interactions) · record patient data · listen to a report and itemize a patient's problems and high-priority concerns · and sometimes administer medications.</li>
<li>Requires students to use their critical thinking skills to set priorities for care, collect data, analyze and interpret data, and reach conclusions about complex problems within a health-illness transition.</li>
<li>Encourages active learning and provides opportunities to identify information to collect and process data for evidence-based patient care; work with data entry and retrieval screens; optimize use of available information resources; understand hospital information systems; manage information for decision-making; and maintain and improve core computing skills.</li>
</ul>A series of groundbreaking, new workbooks and CD-ROMs, Virtual Clinical Excursions bring learning to life in two different "virtual" hospital settings! Each lesson in Virtual Clinical Excursions has a core textbook reading assignment with corresponding CD-ROM and workbook activities. The exercises in the workbook complement the content in the the parent text and provide a perfect environment in which students may "practice" what they are learning in the text. The workbooks act as maps ― guiding students through the CD-ROM as they care for patients in the virtual hospital. Virtual hospital visits on the CD-ROM allow students to access realistic information resources that are essential to patient care.

Virtual Clinical Excursions for Sixth Edition Medical-Surgical Nursing: Assessment and Management of Clinical Problems

Sharon Lewis

Jay Tashiro

Ellen Sullins

Gina Long

This unique, easy-to-use program walks you through each step involved in gathering, organizing, and entering patient data into a plan of care. Its flexible design and interactive approach make it a fun and effective way to learn concept mapping techniques while you build "real-life" skills for collecting and evaluating data for patient care! Applicable to all clinical practice areas, including med-surg, pediatrics, critical care, maternity, and psychiatric nursing.
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<li>Easy-to-use program walks users through the steps of constructing a concept map, including:</li>
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<li>Creating a data sheet with assessment/physical examination findings, treatments, pathophysiology, medications, and more</li>
<li>Entering medical diagnoses</li>
<li>Identifying appropriate nursing diagnoses and collaborative problems</li>
<li>Providing supporting data for each patient problem</li>
<li>Prioritizing key nursing diagnoses and collaborative problems</li>
<li>Determining nursing interventions</li>
<li>Building the concept map and adding arrows to show relationships</li>
<li>Creating an evaluation summary</li>
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<li>Flexible programming allows users to customize their concept maps by moving boxes and adding multidirectional arrows that can point to more than one box to indicate relationships.</li>
<li>Data sheet feature allows users to record key preliminary information such as assessment/physical examination data, pathophysiology, treatments, diagnostic tests/results, and much more. </li>
<li>Interview data can be entered using a functional health patterns or review of systems approach.</li>
<li>Data is color-coded by type (assessment, nursing diagnosis, intervention, etc.) throughout the program and in the finished concept map and to help users visually differentiate content and more clearly understand the complexities of patient care.</li>
<li>The save and modify function allows users to return at a later date to make modifications to data and/or the concept map.</li>
<li>Evaluation summary step allows users to enter evaluation data after seeing the patient in clinicals.</li>
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Mosby's Nursing Concept Map Creator

Reference

Elaine Kennedy

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