Publisher Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Announces Partnership With Laerdal Medical To Develop Nursing Skill Simulations

Main Category: Nursing / Midwifery
Article Date: 26 Jan 2010 - 0:00 PDT

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins and Laerdal Medical announced today a partnership that integrates Lippincott's highly respected print and online nursing content with Laerdal's state-of-the-art simulators and superior simulation programs. Practicing nurses and nursing students will have access to real-world clinical simulation packages that will advance their technical skills and critical thinking abilities and ultimately lead to improved patient outcomes.

Competent nurses are essential for patient safety and optimal patient outcomes. Schools strive to graduate highly competent students and hospitals strive to maintain and improve the competence of their nurses. The Lippincott/Laerdal simulators will enable nursing students to experience real-world scenarios that correspond to their nursing courses, strengthen skills, and build critical thinking competencies. Practicing nurses will reinforce their knowledge base with clinical scenarios that correspond with their specialty.

The first product will be a Medical-Surgical Nursing simulation package that provides clinical scenarios using web-based content from the 12th edition of Brunner & Suddarth's Textbook of Medical - Surgical Nursing; Lippincott's Nursing Advisor, an online reference program with more than 2100 evidence-based, quick access entries on diseases, diagnostic tests, drugs, treatments, and nursing care plans; and Lippincott's Procedures and Skills, an online program with more than 900 step-by-step, evidence-based nursing procedures and skills and more than 1200 full color images and videos.

"This partnership will provide nursing students with full integration of course work and simulation, an educational experience that was not possible before today," said Susan Driscoll, Executive VP and General Manager, Professional & Education, Wolters Kluwer Health. "Having all the competencies mapped to specific skills throughout the nursing curriculum and verified via real-world simulation will increase employers' confidence that the new graduates they hire are fully competent to practice."

David Johnson, President of Laerdal Medical, Americas, added, "This is an exciting step forward for those involved in nurse education, as this is the first time they will be able to experience the systematic integration of academic content from a leading publisher, with full- scale patient simulations."

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Wolters Kluwer Health: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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