"When everyone is working from the same place and using the same checklist and the same steps [with Clinical Skills], it reduces variability, improves our patient experience, and enhances the care we can provide."
Provide evidence-based guidance at the point of care with Clinical Skills
Help your team deliver high-quality patient care while adhering to the highest practice standards by integrating competency management software and nursing skills into the workflow.
Put trusted information at your nurses’ fingertips to help them make informed decisions
Boost confidence in moments that matter
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Provide trusted guidance at the bedside to strengthen clinical confidence, enhance critical thinking and reduce cognitive overload
Save time and eliminate the need for separate logins with single sign-on (SSO) integration into your EHR workflow
Personalize content for each clinician with saved searches, favorite skills, and viewing history
Foster deeper understanding with videos that offer in-depth visualizations of physiological mechanisms
Drive organization-wide adoption of clinical standards
Standardize evidence-based content across care settings, specialties, and your entire organization to promote consistent, high-quality care
Increase your nurses’ confidence, productivity and satisfaction
Equip all care team members to perform skills consistently by linking best-practice guidance with specific hospital policies
Ensure content meets rigorous standards and is based on current evidence from accredited sources, including leading nursing organizations
Integrate competency management and professional development
Enable nurses to earn NCPD within the competency management workflow, reinforcing your commitment to their growth and development
Connect with Elsevier’s learning and development platform, as well as all major learning management systems and content-delivery platforms
Leverage analytics to track usage, remediate knowledge gaps and help enhance patient care
When everyone is working from the same place and using the same checklist and the same steps [with Clinical Skills], it reduces variability, improves our patient experience, and enhances the care we can provide.Angie Williams, BSN, RN-BC, CPN
Manager Clinical Practice & Quality at Children’s Mercy Kansas City
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Frequently asked questions
Skills are updated annually or more frequently with critical practice change or new evidence.
Monthly reports provide a list of which skills have changed and the files showing detailed changes.
Yes, in addition to the core collection, you can add the following specialty skills:
Ambulatory Care
Mental and Behavioral Health Care
Home Health, Hospice and Palliative, and Rehabilitation Nursing
Pediatric Nursing
Perioperative Nursing
Respiratory Care
Elsevier partners with subject matter experts and associations such as American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN), American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (A.S.P.E.N.) and Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) to author & update content. Elsevier’s editorial team, consisting of experienced healthcare professionals, develops a single, trusted source of evidence-based clinical content and tools across the suite of Clinical Learning products for safer, standardized patient care.
Yes, Clinical Skills offers 2000+ skills with 1890 contact hours (0.5-2 NCPD/skill) in the competency workflow, awarding NCPD to nurses as they demonstrate proficiency with new skills.
Manage competency and provide consistent care among nurses, therapists and health professionals with Clinical Skills
1 Elsevier is accredited with distinction as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation