Nursing Skills Online for Basic Nursing (Access Code): Essentials for Practice

Nursing Skills Online is an interactive and evaluative learning system designed to support Basic Nursing: Essentials for Practice, 6th Edition. Focusing on the skills that are most labor-intensive to teach and pose the greatest risk to patient safety, this course is the perfect tool to help users review and evaluate their competency before performing skills in the clinical setting. This online course consists of 17 modules that are organized around the 5-step nursing process. Each module challenges users with a series of realistic, case-based lessons that consist of objectives, a content overview, reading assignments, numerous interactive exercises, and a post-test. Lessons include helpful tables, graphs, charts, illustrations, photographs, animations, audio clips, and videos throughout ― all designed to make the learning experience more visual, realistic, and engaging.Designed to correlate with Potter: Basic Nursing: Essentials for Practice, 6th edition. Reading assignments link online content to text. Over 700 activities encourage decision-making, critical thinking, and self-evaluation. Case-based/problem-oriented format of learning activities relates to real-life patient scenarios. Varied self-assessment exercises - over 750 - and lesson exams allow users to test their knowledge of key concepts throughout the module. Correct answers and rationales provide immediate feedback. Scramble function allows user to reset an exercise so that the activities are reordered and presented anew. 100 video clips demonstrating procedures can be viewed from start to finish, pausing and repeating segments as desired. Over 100 step-by-step skill performance guidelines are printable to provide a portable reference. Extensive glossary of terms includes pronunciation for the most often mispronounced terms.