STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that its online tool, Elsevier/Mosby Nursing Skills, has formed a partnership with Corpak MedSystems, a US-based manufacturer of enteral/vascular access devices. The partners will seek to develop an online skill reference for placing feeding tubes using the CORTRAK Enteral Access System.
The CORTRAK Skill within Mosby’s Nursing Skills is projected to offer a quick sheet with an abbreviated step-by-step placement procedure, checklist, animated demonstration, illustrations, and extended text with the full step-by-step placement procedure. It will also offer an interactive test allowing nurses to assess their own knowledge and skills. The CORTRAK Skill is at present available to all current Nursing Skills subscribers. Hospitals that already use the CORTRAK System will have access to the CORTRAK skill, even if they are not currently Mosby Nursing Skills subscribers.
Mosby’s Nursing Skills interactive functionality also offers subscribers the opportunity to customise skills for institution-specific protocols and procedures or link to nursing policies and procedures. As a result, hospitals can easily develop an internal protocol for placing feeding tubes using CORTRAK—either by using the protocol directly or modifying it to meet unique clinical goals.
Blending a skills and procedures reference with a learning and competency management system, Mosby’s Nursing Skills seeks to offer subscribers access to more than 800 nursing skills and procedures. It features detailed text, summary reviews, tests, checklists, illustrations and video/animation demonstrations. Nurse managers and educators can assign, track and manage skills and test nursing staff, while nurse management can post and manage announcements and alerts to communicate with staff.
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