Virtual Clinical Excursions to Accompany Understanding Pathophysiology (Workbook with CD-Rom)

Virtual Clinical Excursions (Phase 1) is workbook/CD-ROM package that guides the student through a virtual hospital in a hands-on learning experience. The student is actively engaged with the workbook, CD-ROM and parent text throughout each lesson. Each lesson has a core textbook reading assignment and activities based on visiting the patients in the hospital. The lessons in the workbook complement the content in the textbook and provide a perfect environment in which students may practice what they are learning in the text.

As the student visits each patient, she is able to access realistic information resources essential for patient care. Information resources include: charts, medical administration records, electronic patient records, video streaming of patient dialogue with nurses and other related materials. These resources provide an opportunity for the student to assess and analyze information, make a diagnosis, set priorities and implement and evaluate care.

Has multiple information sources that can be examined and evaluated to understand how and why care is implemented in a particular health-illness transition;

Has meaningful real-world problems that place the student in nursing scenarios where she can set priorities for care, collect data, analyze and interpret data, and reach conclusions about complex problems within a health-illness transition.

Lessons in the workbook complement the content in the textbook and guide the student through the virtual hospital

The student has the opportunity to explore findings within the context of the workbook's perspective and educational goals