A multi-floor, virtual hospital, VCE 2.0: Canyon View Regional Medical Center contains 14 patient rooms with five floors - a Well Child Clinic, a Pediatrics Floor, a Surgery Department, an Intensive Care Unit, and a Medical-Surgical Telemetry Floor. These patients are included in VCE 2.0: Canyon View Regional Medical Center: Darlene Martin Ms. Martin, age 49, was admitted with uterine leiomyomata, irregular periods, and endometrial hyperplasia. She opts for a total abdominal hysterectomy. James Franklin Mr. Franklin, age 67, admitted after experiencing episodic light-headedness, left arm and left leg numbness, and one episode of expressive aphasia. He undergoes a carotid endarterectomy. James Story Mr. Story, age 42, has renal failure and Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus. He arrives complaining of significant weakness, nausea, and an increasingly edematous right arm. Paul Jungerson Mr. Jungerson, age 61, complains of persistent left lower quadrant abdominal pain that has lasted for 3 days. Diagnosed with a coloanal anastomosis disruption, he undergoes a colostomy. Elizabeth Washington Ms. Washington, age 63, is admitted following an automobile accident which fractures her hip. Tom Handy Mr. Handy, age 62, is admitted for a right upper lobectomy with bronchoscopy for moderately differentiated squamous cell carcinoma of the right lung. Julia Parker Ms. Parker, age 55, is admitted with indigestion and mid back pain. She suffers a myocardial infarction.
Guiding students through a virtual clinical experience, VCE: Red Rock Canyon Medical Center is a teaching hospital that is modeled after a real medical-surgical floor. It contains five patient rooms, a nurses' station, a supervisor's office, two conference rooms, a nurses' lounge, and a waiting room with an elevator. The following patients are seeking treatment in Red Rock Canyon Medical Center: Carmen Gonzalez: This older Hispanic female presents with an infected leg that has become gangrenous. She has Type 2 diabetes mellitus, as well as complications of congestive heart failure and osteomyelitis David Ruskin: Following a car-bicycle accident, this young adult African-American male is admitted with a possible closed head injury and a badly fractured right humerus. He undergoes an open reduction and internal fixations of the right humerus. Sally Begay: This Native American woman enters the hospital and is initially suspected of having a Hanta virus infection. She has a confirmed diagnosis of bacterial lung infection. This client's complications include chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and inactive tuberculosis. Ira Bradley: Ira is a caucasian adult male with late-stage HIV disease who is admitted for an opportunistic respiratory infection. He has complications of oral fungal infection, malnutrition, and wasting. Andrea Wang: This young Asian female entered the hospital after a diving accident in which T6 is crushed, with partial transection of the spinal cord. After a week in the ICU, she has been transferred to the medical-surgical unit, where she is being closely monitored.
Introducing Virtual Clinical Excursions -- a new breed of workbook that is now a critical component of several of Mosby and W.B. Saunders most prominent nursing texts. Inside, an extraordinary new CD-ROM provides an incredibly true-to-life simulation of clinical practice! This CD-ROM features a virtual hospital setting with five unique patients. These patients have their own diverse health problems, medical histories, families, cultural backgrounds, and personalities. You can access the patients, review their charts, lab data, and medication administration records...monitor daily changes when their nurses take their vital signs and perform a variety of tests...formulate nursing diagnoses...and plan interventions. In short, you can practice making all of the clinical decisions that lie at the heart of nursing...on your own schedule and at your own convenience! This workbook sends you into the virtual hospital setting to learn communication, documentation, assessment, critical thinking, and other essential skills. It also calls on you to collect information, make decisions, and set priorities. Each lesson has a reading assignment from Black, Hawks, & Keene: Medical-Surgical Nursing: Clinical Management for Positive Outcomes, Sixth Edition, as well as activities that call on you to "visit" the patients in the virtual hospital. The workbook exercises provide a perfect environment in which you can practice what you are learning from the text.
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