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Digital Clinical Experiences™ for Undergraduate Nursing Students

Shadow Health provides a safe, standardized environment for undergraduate nursing students to develop their clinical reasoning skills through realistic interactions with Digital Standardized Patients™.

Shadow Health digital standardized patients

Digital Clinical Experiences™ for Undergraduate Nursing Students

Shadow Health provides a safe, standardized environment for undergraduate nursing students to develop their clinical reasoning skills through realistic interactions with Digital Standardized Patients™.

Elsevier offers 11 undergraduate collections designed to meet your course objectives and prepare your students for the Next Generation NCLEX®.

Gerontology

Students interact with a diverse range of older adult patients, gathering data to assess risk for geriatric syndromes and Beers Criteria® medication contraindications. Clinical Judgment Measurement Model Data shows you on-demand data into how your students' clinical judgment skills are developing, connecting their actions to skills measured on the Next Generation NCLEX!

The Gerontology simulations are enhanced with a seamless and realistic experience for your students!

Assignments

  • Focused Exam: Pain (Edward Carter)

  • Focused Exam: Mobility (Robert Hall)

  • Focused Exam: Infection (Patricia Young)

  • Focused Exam: Cognition (Esther Park)

  • Focused Exam: End of Life (Regina Walker)

Health Assessment

Students build skills to gather and synthesize data across the lifespan in a systematic manner through their care of Digital Standardized Patients.

Assignments

  • Single System Exams (Health History; HEENT; Respiratory; Cardiovascular; Abdominal; Musculoskeletal; Neurological; Skin, Hair, Nails; Discharge)

  • Comprehensive Assessment (Tina Jones)

  • Focused Exam: Cough (Danny Rivera)

  • Focused Exam: Chest Pain (Brian Foster)

  • Focused Exam: Abdominal Pain (Esther Park)

  • Conversation Concept Lab (Rachel Adler)

  • Respiratory Concept Lab

  • Cardiovascular Concept Lab new Cardiovascular System (Rochelle Joseph) and HEENT system assignments (Kellan Clarke)

  • Abdominal Concept Lab

Fundamentals

Students ensure patient safety and provide basic care and comfort.

Assignments

  • Patient Care Rounds: Post-Operative Check-In (John Larsen)

  • Patient Care Rounds: Infection Control (Su Yeong-Jun)

  • Patient Care Rounds: Bowel Diversion (Miguel Flores)

  • Patient Care Rounds: Pressure Injury (Isabella Fischer)

  • Patient Care Rounds: Complex Post-Operative Care (Sonia Best)

  • Patient Care Rounds: Tracheostomy Care (Nancy Gilbert)

  • Patient Care Rounds: Postmortem Care (Samuel Green)

Miguel Flores

Community Health

Students explore a systems-view approach to healthcare – assessing community strengths and weaknesses, tracing the spread of disease, advocating for vulnerable populations, treating individual patients, and creating a care plan for the community.

Assignments

  • Welcome to Shadowville

  • Community Assessment

  • Home Health Visit

  • HIV Diagnosis with Contact Tracing

  • Comprehensive Assessment with Barriers to Care

  • Community Care Plan: Environmental Exposure

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Leadership

Students put key pieces together – including prioritization, delegation, and working as part of a team – to manage multiple patients.

Assignments

  • Assignment 1: Prioritization and Introduction to Leadership

  • Assignment 2: Delegation

  • Assignment 3: Conflict Management

  • Assignment 4: Ethics

  • Assignment 5: Change Management and Patient Advocacy

  • Assignment 6: Discharge and Conclusion

Leadership

Maternal Health

Students provide holistic care during the prenatal, intrapartum, and postpartum periods of pregnancy.

Assignments

  • Focused Exam: Preterm Labor (Darlene Hall)

  • Focused Exam: OB Triage (Amber Rhodes)

  • Focused Exam: Uncomplicated Delivery (Daanis LaFontaine)

  • Focused Exam: Gestational Diabetes (Jennifer Wu)

  • Focused Exam: Preeclampsia (Naomi Adebayo)

  • Focused Exam: Non-Reassuring Fetal Status (Luna Morales)

  • Focused Exam: Postpartum Care (Gloria Hernandez)

Maternal Health

Medical-Surgical Nursing

Students practice recognizing changes in patient status and determining correct interventions.

Assignments

  • Endocrine System Hourly Rounds (Fatima Khan)

  • Perioperative Care Hourly Rounds (Sonia Best)

  • Respiratory System Hourly Rounds (Richard Trottier)

  • Gastrointestinal System Hourly Rounds (Scott Becker)

  • Renal System Hourly Rounds (Arturo Perez)

  • Complex Assessment: Generalized Weakness (Minerva Garcia)

  • Complex Assessment: Unresponsive (Taylor Herndon)

  • Complex Assessment: Arrhythmia (Martin Francis)

  • Complex Assessment: End-Stage Heart Failure (Vandana Kumar)

  • Complex Assessment: Cardiac Intervention (James Morris)

Fatima Khan

Mental Health

Students engage with a set of patients who are experiencing a variety of mental health conditions.

Assignments

  • Focused Exam: Schizophrenia (Eric Ford)

  • Focused Exam: Anxiety (John Larsen)

  • Focused Exam: Depression (Abigail Harris)

  • Focused Exam: Bipolar Disorder (Lucas Callahan)

  • Focused Exam: Alcohol Use Disorder (Rachel Adler)

  • Focused Exam: PSTD (Nicole Diaz)

  • Follow-Up Visit: Adolescent ADHD (Sebastian Stavros)

Lupe Sosa

Pathophysiology

Students develop a foundational understanding of the pathophysiologic basis of disease processes.

Assignments

  • The Cardiovascular System and Common Alterations

  • Cells, Genes, Tissues, and Common Alterations

  • The Pulmonary System and Common Alterations

  • The Gastrointestinal System and Common Alterations

  • The Nervous System Part 1: Structure and Function

  • The Nervous System Part 2: Common Alterations

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Pediatrics

Students provide care for patients, who range in age from infant to adolescent, and their family units.

Assignments

  • Focused Exam: Respiratory Syncytial Virus (Eden Wu)

  • Focused Exam: Asthma Exacerbation (Gabriel Martinez)

  • Focused Exam: Type 1 Diabetes (Chelsea Warren)

  • Focused Exam: Traumatic Brain Injury (Damien Brooks)

  • Focused Exam: Long Bone Fracture (Landon Smith)

  • Focused Exam: Cystic Fibrosis (Kyle Reeves)

  • Continuum of Care: Congestive Heart Failure (Isabella Burgel)

Zachary LaFontaine

Pharmacology

Students practice skills essential to safe medication administration, preparing them to meet patient needs effectively and confidently in the clinical setting.

Assignments

  • Basic Patient Case (John Larsen)

  • Intermediate Patient Case (Tina Jones)

  • Complex Patient Case (Doris Turner)

  • Intermediate Patient Case (Edward Carter)

  • Basic Medication Math

  • Intermediate Medication Math

  • Complex Medication Math

  • Anti-Asthmatics

  • Antihypertensives

  • Antidiabetics

  • Analgesics

  • Anti-Infectives

Tanner Bailey

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