By
Susan deWit, MSN, RN, CNS, PHN, Formerly, Instructor of Nursing, El Centro College, Dallas, TX; and Allan Hancock College, Santa Maria, CA
Description
One of the most complete nursing education learning systems available, Virtual Clinical Excursions guides you through a virtual hospital
setting where the patients are real and their conditions are constantly changing. By immersing yourself in a realistic, yet safe, nursing
environment, VCE allows you to get acclimated to the routine and rigors of the average clinical rotation where you can conduct a complete
assessment of a patient and set priorities for care, collect data, 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, which provide a perfect environment in which you may “practice” what you are learning. The CD-ROM uses streaming videos
to represent patients just as you would see them in a hospital setting and gives you access to highly detailed patient records – including
charts, medication administration records, a Kardex-type plan of care, a drug guide, and an extensive electronic patient record system
that has data for each client from the time of their admission throughout their simulation.
