Clinical Skills: Essentials Collection (Access Card): Fundamentals and Health Assessment

Learn to master the most important nursing skills before you ever step foot in the clinical environment. Clinical Skills: Essentials Collection is an engaging, web-based learning tool that guides users through more than 155 of the most important fundamentals and health assessment nursing skills. Each skill in the collection uses the same seven-part framework to walk you through every aspect of the skill. From special patient and safety considerations to the equipment and techniques used in the skill, this assembly of high-definition videos, interactive learning tools, and in-depth explanations will leave you with a 360-degree understanding of how to safely and effectively perform each skill.

Duration for access to this product, which may be at the discretion of your institution, is up to 36 months. Elsevier reserves the right to restrict or remove access due to changes in product portfolio or other market conditions.

• Convenient web-based program utilizes the same professional format that practicing nurses use to train.
• Consistent, competency-based format for learning skills gives your nursing program a standardized way to teach, perform, and evaluate skills across the curriculum. Most skills feature the same types of skill learning tools to help students obtain a more holistic understanding of the skill and the standard QSEN nursing competencies.

• Quick sheet provides a concise, step-by-step summary of the skill.
• Extended text gives students a 360-degree look at all aspects of the skill. Subjects addressed in the extended text section include:

• Safety alerts
• Supplies
• Patient and family education
• Procedures
• Delegation opportunities
• Monitoring and care
• Expected and unexpected outcomes
• Documentation guidelines
• Special gerontologic, pediatric, and home care considerations
• Evidence-based references
• Additional reading suggestions
• Interactive visual supply list features roll-over labeling to familiarize students with each piece of equipment needed to perform the skill.
• Demonstration videos and animations visually guide students through every necessary step involved in the skill.
• Images and illustrations highlight crucial procedures, equipment, and documents involved in the skill.
• Review questions and competency tests with rationales help students review and evaluate their understanding of the skill. 
• Printable evaluation checklists enable students and faculty to measure and track various skill competencies. 
• Up-to-date, evidence-based content is reviewed and revised annually by clinical skills experts to reflect changes in practice as they arise.