Information and point-of-care solutions provider Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced that it is customising Lippincott's Nursing Advisor to support nurses who work with patients in long-term care (LTC). The new content addresses the nuanced differences between traditional patients in acute care and those in nursing homes and other post-acute care facilities. Lippincott's Nursing Advisor is a leading online clinical decision-support solution used by clinicians in hospitals and other healthcare institutions.
The new category includes content devoted entirely to the special needs of the nursing home, long-term post-acute, sub-acute, independent living and hospice patient. New content is being added to core sections of the software product - including Diseases and Conditions and Nursing Care Plans for Medical Diagnosis - that give clinicians, regardless of setting, immediate answers to their most pressing health information needs.
All of the evidence-based, originally written content is being reviewed by a team of more than 20 practicing long-term care managers, administrators and educators to ensure that it properly addresses the requirements of long-term care patients. The project started earlier this year and will continue into 2014, with content being added to the application on a quarterly basis.
These improvements continue Wolters Kluwer Health's commitment to the long-term care market. In March, the Lippincott's Nursing Solutions' development team enlisted the American Association of Long Term Care Nursing (AALTCN) to co-develop procedures to meet the needs of long-term care clinicians and enhance Lippincott's Nursing Procedures and Skills. The co-development effort is complete, and all of the jointly developed long-term care procedures are now available to customers. These procedures are linked back to the evidence-based information in Lippincott's Nursing Advisor, so that clinicians have immediate access to exactly what they need, when they need it.
Lippincott's Nursing Procedures and Skills is a point-of-care support solution that provides evidence-based, step-by-step procedures, tests, skills checklists and robust administrative functionality that supports standardized practice and helps healthcare providers meet The Joint Commission written policy requirements. Using a proprietary synoptic search, both products deliver the appropriate entry within seconds of a nurse's inquiry.
Lippincott's Nursing Advisor is a nurse-centric, answers-at-the-bedside resource designed for online and mobile point-of-care environments. The product includes more than 10,000 collective entries of critical, evidence-based information spanning diseases, treatments, diagnostic tests, drugs, signs & symptoms, nursing care plans, core measures, hospital-acquired conditions, national guidelines and patient education.
Lippincott's Nursing Advisor and Lippincott's Nursing Procedures and Skills are available immediately to nursing homes and other long-term care environments as well as to hospitals and other healthcare and higher education facilities. The products are part of Lippincott's Nursing Solutions, a series of evidence-based software applications designed to improve patient outcomes, enhance nurse competency, standardise care and promote clinical excellence.
