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®.

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

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)

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

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

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)

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)

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)

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

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)

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