Virtual clinical excursions (VCE) is a workbook/CD-ROM package that accompanies many Elsevier nursing textbooks. The workbook guides users through Pacific View Regional Hospital, a virtual hospital setting, where one can learn communication, documentation, assessment, and safe medication administration. VCE offers a hands-on learning experience to help nurses improve both clinical judgement and critical thinking skills while interacting with a number of virtual patients.
Completely updated for easier use and more control, VCE Pacific View is a groundbreaking workbook/CD-ROM package that brings learning to life in a "virtual" hospital setting. This guided learning experience features textbook reading assignments that correspond with the CD-ROM and workbook activities. The workbook acts as a map, guiding students through the CD-ROM as they care for patients in the virtual hospital to help students make connections between what they experience through the CD-ROM and what they've learned in their textbook. Each virtual hospital visit allows the student to access realistic information resources essential to patient care resulting in a true-to-life, hands-on learning experience. Users will also discover that this edition of VCE is easier to use with the inclusion of flash-based technology and the elimination of previously needed third-party plug-ins.
Completely updated for easier use and more control, VCE Pacific View is a groundbreaking workbook/CD-ROM package that brings learning to life in a "virtual" hospital setting. This guided learning experience features textbook reading assignments that correspond with the CD-ROM and workbook activities. The workbook acts as a map, guiding students through the CD-ROM as they care for patients in the virtual hospital to help students make connections between what they experience through the CD-ROM and what they've learned in their textbook. Each virtual hospital visit allows the student to access realistic information resources essential to patient care resulting in a true-to-life, hands-on learning experience. Users will also discover that this edition of VCE is easier to use with the inclusion of flash-based technology and the elimination of previously needed third-party plug-ins. Meaningful, real-world problems place users in nursing scenarios where they can set priorities for care, collect data, analyze and interpret data, and reach conclusions about complex problems within a health-illness transition The highly-engaging format 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 Lessons in the workbook complement the content in the textbook and guide the student through the virtual hospital Includes NCLEX examination-style questions that offer built-in testing of clinical knowledge The CD-ROM offers users the opportunity to visit each patient and access realistic information essential for patient care, including: charts, medical administration records, electronic patient records, video clips of nurse-client interactions, and other related materials A clock icon appears under each lesson, estimating how much time it will take to complete A linkage icon alerts the user whenever they are about to begin an exercise that connects with previous lessons The elimination of third-party plug-ins facilitates fast and easy software installation Flash-based technology allows for more ease of use and seamless navigation Greater faculty support with the addition of the FAC PAC, a new instructors' website, and a radically expanded testing component A medication administration feature enables users to select, prepare, and administer medications Over 50 common medication errors imbedded within the software to boost clinical realism and prepare students for current practice A Medication Room that contains a wide variety of drug storage areas, such as a Unit Dosage Cabinet, Automated Dispensing System, IV Storage, and a Refrigerator 6 unique patients/cases, each with complex medical-surgical conditions for students to care for and monitor within the virtual hospital
One of the most complete nursing education learning systems available, Virtual Clinical Excursions is an online program that guides you through a virtual hospital where the patients are real and their conditions are constantly changing. By immersing students in a realistic, yet safe, nursing environment, VCE simulates the average clinical rotation by allowing users to conduct a complete assessment of a patient and set priorities for care, collect information, 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 - providing a perfect environment to "practice" what you are learning. Online workbook includes a set of lessons to prepare and guide you through a variety of patient scenarios, which are all connected to your textbook. Physical examination interactions include unique images and assessment findings for each patient scenario. Patient chart provides quick access to vital information such as physician's orders, laboratory reports, patient education, nursing admission, and more, offering a richly detailed portrait of the patient. Electronic patient record houses data from the patient's entire hospital stay and offers the ability to record new data findings. Nurse-client interaction videos depict conversations and situations involving nurses, patients, family members, and hospital staff to help you discern between communications that are ideal and those that need improvement. Updated drug reference includes a comprehensive set of the latest drug monographs to help you make the best clinical judgments involving medication administration. NEW! Online format enables you to access Virtual Clinical Excursions from any PC or MAC with an internet connection. NEW! Laboratory guide provides standard value ranges for all laboratory values offered within the virtual patient hospital, so you can confirm and compare standard lab values against your patients' test results.
This dynamic and engaging workbook/CD-ROM package guides users through Pacific View Regional Hospital - a multi-level, virtual hospital setting in which students meet and care for a set of highly complex and diverse patients. The VCE workbook acts as a map, guiding users through the interactive setting as they care for patients in the virtual hospital and draw connections between these nursing experiences and their textbook discussions. Each workbook lesson includes a reading assignment from Fundamental Concepts and Skills for Nursing, 2nd Edition and activities that tie in with the accompanying software. Virtual Clinical Excursions equips users with the practical knowledge and skills needed for clinical rotations, while sharpening the decision-making skills that will help them set priorities for care, collect and interpret data, prepare and administer medications, and reach conclusions about patient problems. Meaningful, real-world problems place users in nursing scenarios where they can set priorities for care, collect data, analyze and interpret data, and reach conclusions about complex problems within a health-illness transition. The highly-engaging format 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. Lessons in the workbook complement the content in the textbook and guide the student through the virtual hospital. Includes NCLEX examination-style questions that offer built-in testing of clinical knowledge. The CD-ROM offers users the opportunity to visit each patient and access realistic information essential for patient care, including: charts, medical administration records, electronic patient records, video clips of nurse-client interactions, and other related materials. A clock icon appears under each lesson, estimating how much time it will take to complete. A linkage icon alerts the user whenever they are about to begin an exercise that connects with previous lessons. The elimination of third-party plug-ins facilitates fast and easy software installation. Flash-based technology allows for more ease of use and seamless navigation. Greater faculty support with the addition of the FAC PAC, a new instructors' website, and a radically expanded testing component. A medication administration feature enables users to select, prepare, and administer medications. Over 50 common medication errors imbedded within the software to boost clinical realism and prepare students for current practice. A Medication Room that contains a wide variety of drug storage areas, such as a Unit Dosage Cabinet, Automated Dispensing System, IV Storage, and a Refrigerator. 6 unique patients/cases, each with complex medical-surgical conditions for students to care for and monitor within the virtual hospital.
Take a guided tour through Canyon View Regional Medical Center with Virtual Clinical Excursions 2.0. This interactive learning aid combines a CD-ROM with a workbook and the parent textbook to provide the perfect learning experience. The student is able to learn and develop patient care skills in a virtual hospital environment. It includes such features as patient medical charts, medical administration records, and video streaming of nurse patient interactions. These resources provide the student the opportunity to assess and analyze patient information, establish a nursing diagnosis, set priorities,implement care, and evaluate the outcomes.
Introducing VIRTUAL CLINICAL EXCURSIONS a new breed of workbook that is now a critical component of several of Mosby and W.B. Saunders' most prominent nursing texts. This workbook contains an extraordinary new CD-ROM featuring a virtual hospital setting with five highly individual patients. Users can access and review their charts, lab data, and medication administration records, assess them, monitor daily changes when nurses take their vital signs, perform a variety of tests, formulate diagnoses, and planinterventions. Each workbook lesson has a reading assignment from Ignatavicius & Workman: Medical-Surgical Nursing: Critical Thinking for Collaborative Care, 4th Edition, as well as activities that involve observing and interacting with the patients in the virtual hospital. The result is a uniquely "hands-on" way to master essential nursing knowledge! Workbook and CD-ROM
Completely updated for easier use and more control, VCE Pacific View is a groundbreaking workbook/CD-ROM package that brings learning to life in a "virtual" hospital setting. This guided learning experience features textbook reading assignments that correspond with the CD-ROM and workbook activities. The workbook acts as a map, guiding students through the CD-ROM as they care for patients in the virtual hospital to help students make connections between what they experience through the CD-ROM and what they've learned in their textbook. Each virtual hospital visit allows the student to access realistic information resources essential to patient care resulting in a true-to-life, hands-on learning experience. Users will also discover that this edition of VCE is easier to use with the inclusion of flash-based technology and the elimination of previously needed third-party plug-ins.
Introducing Virtual Clinical Excursions -- a new breed of workbook that is now a critical component of several of Mosby and W.B. Saunders' most prominent nursing texts. Inside, an extraordinary new CD-ROM provides an incredibly true-to-life simulation of clinical practice! This CD-ROM features a virtual hospital setting with five unique patients. These patients have their own diverse health problems, medical histories, families, cultural backgrounds, and personalities. You can access the patients, review their charts, lab data, and medication administration records...monitor daily changes when their nurses take their vital signs and perform a variety of tests...formulate nursing diagnoses...and plan interventions. In short, you can practice making all of the clinical decisions that lie at the heart of nursing...on your own schedule and at your own convenience! This workbook sends you into the virtual hospital setting to learn communication, documentation, assessment, critical thinking, and other essential skills. It also calls on you to collect information, make decisions, and set priorities. Each lesson has a reading assignment from Phipps, Monahan, Sands, Marek, & Neighbors: Medical-Surgical Nursing: Health and Illness Perspectives, Seventh Edition, as well as activities that call on you to "visit" the patients in the virtual hospital. The workbook exercises provide a perfect environment in which you can practice what you are learning from the text. The result is a uniquely "hands-on" way to master essential nursing knowlddge!
