KEY FEATURES Feature: Updated content Description: The new material in the textbook will be addressed through patient care activities in the VCE workbook. Benefit: Encourages active learning of the latest evidence-based care. Feature: Online capabilities Description: Virtual Clinical Excursions is online and accessible from any PC, MAC or Tablet. Benefit: Users can access anywhere, on any device, making learning easier. Feature: Laboratory Guide Description: Offers normal value ranges for all laboratory values offered within the virtual patient hospital. Benefit: Allows users to confirm and compare normal laboratory values against that of their patients' test results. Feature: Online Workbook Description: A series of electronic workbook lessons containing a variety of activities that compliment the textbook. Benefit: Guides users throughout the patient scenarios to collect information, make decisions and set priorities. Feature: Clinical Reports Description: Complete shift and period of care reports are available for all patients. Benefit: Offers a quick reference to easily review the patient's previous summary of care. Feature: Physical Examination Description: Provides a physical examination experience with unique images and assessment findings for each patient scenario. Benefit: Advances user's understanding of each patient's system assessments. Feature: Medication Administration Description: Provides a medication administration element that allows preparation and administration of patient medications. Benefit: Enhances user's ability to think critically about safe medication practices and follow safe medication standards. Feature: Patient Chart Description: Comprehensive chart information available for all patients. Benefit: Allows for easy and quick access to various patient charts, such as physician's orders, laboratory reports, patient education, and nursing admission. Feature: Electronic Patient Record Description: Unique patient records that house data from the patient's hospital stay and offer the ability to record new data findings. Benefit: Allows users to see how the data for different attributes have changed over time. Feature: Kardex Description: Contains nursing information regarding patients' acute care. Benefit: Provides quick access to the nursing needs and observations pertaining to patient's care. Feature: Nurse-Client Interaction Videos Description: Videos depicting interactions involving nurses, patients, family members, hospital staff. Benefit: Allows you to learn more about what is occurring with a patient and prompts you to discern between communications that are ideal and those that need improvement. Feature: Drug Reference Description: Comprehensive drug reference with up-to-date and recently reviewed drug monographs for all drugs used within the virtual hospital. Benefit: Presents a comprehensive set of drug monographs to help users make best clinical judgment to complete each case. Feature: Vital Signs Description: Provides a vital signs tool within each patient's room that measures the patient's blood pressure, oxygen saturation, temperature, heart rate, respiratory rate and pain level. Benefit: Allows users to check your patient's status at critical moments, and promotes s