Virtual Clinical Excursions 2.0 to Accompany Thelan's Critical Care Nursing: Diagnosis and Management

Dynamic and engaging, Virtual Clinical Excursions is a workbook and CD-ROM package that guides users through a multi-floor virtual hospital featuring highly complex and diverse patients. Complementing core textbook reading assignments in Urden: Thelan's Critical Care Nursing: Diagnosis and Management, 4th Edition, lessons in the workbook provide a perfect opportunity for users to practice what they are learning in the text in a realistic clinical environment. The multi-floor hospital also has built in testing with immediate feedback of clinical knowledge with NCLEX-RN type questions.

• Explores how to care for clients' most basic needs ― addressing activity and immobility, nutrition, oxygenation, and elimination, as well as special needs.
• Features an Intensive Care Unit with: - James Story, a patient admitted for renal failure - James Franklin, who has undergone a carotid endarterectomy
• Includes a guided tutorial which shows students how to work with a patient in a 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 · sometimes administer medication · and more.
• Emphasizes the importance of patient care ― from nursing assessment, diagnosis, and planning, to implementation and evaluation.
• Requires students to document client-nurse interactions ― retrieving clinical data, maintaining quality and continuity of care, tracking client outcomes, and meeting current practice standards.