Newswise — 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.”
For more information or to request a free demonstration of the Medical-Surgical Nursing simulation package, contact Lippincott Williams & Wilkins at 1-800-326-1685.
About Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) is a leading international publisher for healthcare professionals and students with nearly 300 periodicals and 1,500 books in more than 100 disciplines publishing under the LWW brand, as well as content-based sites and online corporate and customer services.
LWW is part of Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading provider of information and business intelligence for students, professionals and institutions in medicine, nursing, allied health and pharmacy. Major brands include traditional publishers of medical and drug reference tools and textbooks, such as Lippincott Williams & Wilkins and Facts & Comparisons®; and electronic information providers, such as Ovid®, UpToDate®, Medi-Span® and ProVation® Medical.
Wolters Kluwer Health is part of Wolters Kluwer, a leading global information services and publishing company. The company provides products and services for professionals in the health, tax, accounting, corporate, financial services, legal, and regulatory sectors. Wolters Kluwer had 2008 annual revenues of €3.4 billion ($4.9 billion), employs approximately 20,000 people worldwide, and maintains operations in over 35 countries across Europe, North America, Asia Pacific, and Latin America. Wolters Kluwer is headquartered in Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands. Its shares are quoted on Euronext Amsterdam (WKL) and are included in the AEX and Euronext 100 indices. Visit www.wolterskluwer.com for information about our market positions, customers, brands, and organization.
About LaerdalLaerdal Medical, one of the world’s leading providers of Health care Solutions, is dedicated to helping save lives with products and services for Simulation, Airway Management, Immobilization, Basic Life Support, Advanced Life Support, Patient Care, Self-Directed Learning, and Medical Education. Additionally, a complete line of Education and Technical Services, Courseware and Consulting Services is available. Laerdal is pleased to serve all health care providers and educators, from the lay rescuer to the medical professional. For more information, visit www.laerdal.com.
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