Healthcare publisher Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), part of Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has incorporated several evidence-based content enhancements to Lippincott’s Nursing Advisor, an online clinical decision-support solution used by nurses in hospitals and other healthcare institutions. Key upgrades include the establishment a dedicated paediatric specialty area and access to a supplemental health library of popular reference eBooks. Offering comprehensive, easy-to-access content, Lippincott’s Nursing Advisor provides fast answers to the questions nurses seek at the point-of-care.
The new paediatric specialty area was created by the revision of existing paediatric content and the addition of 37 new disease entries and 37 new nursing care plans, each designed to guide nurses through all aspects of clinical care. The pediatric section now boasts a total of 71 disease entries and the same number of care plans.
With these additions, Lippincott’s Nursing Advisor now includes over 500 individual disease entries and a total of more than 3,000 collective entries of critical, evidence-based information spanning diseases, treatments, diagnostic tests, drugs, signs & symptoms, nursing care plans and patient education. Using the system’s proprietary synoptic search, the product delivers the appropriate entry within seconds of a nurse’s inquiry.
The other key upgrade provides access to a supplemental library of 15 nursing-reference eBooks that have been integrated into the product’s architecture to provide in-depth, supplemental information when nurses need it for further reference. A total of 30 eBooks will be available in January 2013 and more will be added in the future. Some of the most prominent nursing- and physician-oriented titles include Cardiac Nursing, 6e (Woods et al); The Clinical Practice of Neurological and Neurosurgical Nursing, 6e (Hickey); Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice, 9e (Nettina); and Wound Care Essentials: Practice Principles, 3e (Baranoski and Ayello).
Written by nurses for nurses, Lippincott’s Nursing Advisor is the leading nurse-centric resource designed for online and mobile point-of-care environments. In use in hospitals and healthcare institutions worldwide, the product is accessible from any Internet-enabled device including PCs and mobile devices such as iPad and Android tablets. Lippincott’s Nursing Advisor is part of Lippincott’s Nursing Solutions, a series of evidence-based nursing products that improves patient outcomes, enhances nurse competency, standardises care and promotes clinical excellence.
