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Nursing skills – mastery made for the classroom

Clinical Skills for Nursing gives your students a consistent, 360-degree look at the most important nursing skills including communication, clinical practical skills and clinical decision making in nursing.

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From special patient and safety considerations to equipment and techniques, our high-definition videos, interactive learning tools and in-depth explanations help nursing students develop a complete understanding of how to safely and effectively perform key skills. 

Each skill follows a standardized, seven-part framework that includes: 

  • Quick sheet 

  • Extended text 

  • Interactive supply list 

  • Demo video or animation 

  • Illustrations and images 

  • Competency test 

  • Printable evaluation checklist 

Teach skills consistently throughout your curriculum

Clinical Skills for Nursing Standardize

Content for each of the 1,200+ skills comes from a combination trusted Elsevier texts and contributions from clinical skills experts and various nursing organizations such as the AACN, AWHONN and ASPEN. Spanning the entire nursing curriculum, skills are available in the following collections: 

  • Essentials Collection: Fundamentals & Health Assessment 

  • Critical Care 

  • Emergency  

  • Health Assessment 

  • LPN/LVN 

  • Maternal Newborn 

  • Mental Health 

  • Neonatal 

  • Oncology 

  • Pediatric 

  • Perioperative 

  • Respiratory Care 

  • Skills for Nursing Collection 

  • Specialty Collections

Why choose Clinical Skills for Nursing?

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Consistent, intuitive format

Provides a standardized way to teach, perform, and evaluate skills across the curriculum.
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Next Generation platform

The same trusted skills content with an updated interface and added functionality.
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Continually updated, evidence-based content

Content is reviewed and revised annually to reflect changes in practice as they arise
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Convenient, web-based delivery

Uses the same professional format that practicing nurses use to train.
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Performance data

Answers with rationales are included for all skill competency tests and a grade book makes it easy to measure student performance.
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Instructor support

Makes it easy to incorporate skills activities into lesson plans, with student performance recorded in a grade book.

Learn how Clinical Skills can help can help you meet your goals and improve outcomes.

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