Clinical Excellence Programs for Hospitals

Save time – get more done with your dwindling resources
Feel more confident – with more tools to offer your students, you will know they’re getting a broad educational experience
Relax – focus on teaching to your areas of expertise.

Your stress level can come down several notches by adding David W. Woodruff, MSN, RN, CNS, CCRN to your team! As an experienced nurse educator, David will help you teach more to your nurses, and in less time, than you could do by yourself.

You will find that you’re spending less time keeping people informed and more time teaching the topics you really love. Here’s how your programs will help you save time and focus on what you do best:

• The audio CD programs let your students listen over and over again to boost retention of material. CD content can be added to the hospital intranet for easy access.
• The comprehensive workbooks can be copied to allow each student to take notes and review.
• You can offer your nurses CEUs, all necessary information is included.
•Suggestions for clinical application are included in each program.
• All programs are designed to be easy to understand and use.
• Additional audio CDs can be ordered from Ed4Nurses, Inc. for popular programs.

Best of all, your students will get memberships to the Nurses' Success Network, where they will be mentored by David and will have access to:

You can use these programs for as long as you'd like, and with as many nurses as you'd like. Updates will be supplied for free as they become available.

The Advanced Nursing Academy Series

Just think what it would be like to be able to use the best skills of your peers in your everyday practice! The Advanced Nursing Academy is a multiple program system for professional development that is guaranteed to make you feel more confident, implement better interventions, and become an extraordinary nurse.

The first in the Advanced Nursing Academy series is "Managing Nursing Emergencies," which teaches you to think like an ER nurse when your patient is in crisis. ER nurses think differently from the rest of us. They anticipate the worst, but expect the best when faced with a patient in crisis. Learn how to think like an ER nurse while managing:

Managing Nursing Emergencies is a 6 CD audio program that includes the above titles, plus "Think Like an ER Nurse," the program that describes how to respond to crisis calmly and appropriately. Take it back to work with the "Critical Care Skills" Pocket Reference (included).

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Expert Assessment teaches you how to assess like an ICU nurse when your patient is in crisis. ICU nurses work differently in collecting data from their patients. And you can learn from them how to collect data to find problems early on and prevent complications. Expert Assessment includes:

Cardiovascular Assessment
Pulmonary Assessment
Labs That You Must Know
Neurologic Assessment
Multisystem Assessment

Expert Assessment is a 6 CD audio program that includes the above titles, plus "Assess Like an ICU Nurse," the program that describes how to use critical care assessment skills to avoid complications in all your patients. As an additional bonus to you, we'll help you take what you learn back to work with the "Expert Assessment" Clipboard Companion (included).

Take what you learn back to work with the "Expert Assessment" clipboard companion (included)

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Time Management for Nurses teaches you how to organize like a Med-Surg nurse at work and at home. Being able to juggle the responsibilities of caring for 6-10 high-acuity patients is a learned skill. You can learn how to manage your time better so that you produce the kind of results you want. Time Management for Nurses includes:

Time Management Facts & Myths
Preparation
Setting Priorities
Setting and Achieving Goals: A Guide for Staying Focused and Organized
Low Priority Tasks

Time Management for Nurses is a 6 CD audio program that includes the above titles, plus "The Ed4Nurses Time Planner: Use and Integration," the program that describes how to use the time planning tools that are included in the program.

Time Management for Nurses was designed to give you the knowledge and skills you need to take care of your most important asset: time. No more guesswork. You will know how to manage your time to achieve the best results.

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The first thirty seconds of your encounter with your patient and his family could be the most important you’ll have all shift. If you fail to make a connection, you’ll pay for it in many different ways.

And have you ever wondered...
-Why some patients seem to be on the call light all shift long?
-How some nurses seem to be able to diffuse highly-charged situations so easily?
-Or, what it takes to become a great communicator?

Imagine “connecting” with all of your patients quickly and easily. Imagine how much easier your shift would be if you could communicate well and diffuse volatile situations with ease.

Find out how Psych nurses connect with their patients. And use the same thought processes that they use to communicate well and diffuse highly-charged situations. If you'd like to connect with your patients, feel more confident, and provide excellent care, then this might be the most important letter you'll ever read.

Get in Sync With Your Patients for Uncommon Results includes the following programs on 6 audio CDs:

Connect Like a Psych Nurse
The Nurse-Patient Relationship
Developing Healing Relationships
Change the Focus
10 Secrets for Maintaining Relationships
Troubleshooting Communication Breakdowns

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Did you know that there is evidence that routine assessment of bowel sounds after abdominal surgery does not indicate return of bowel function?

And did you know that...
-Oxygen therapy after mild or moderate stroke isn’t helpful and can actually be harmful?
-Lasix can be used as a bronchodilator?
-Or, that touch, music and imagery can decrease mortality?

Imagine treating your patients with skill, based on research findings that support your technique. Imagine being able to find signs of complications and implement interventions to prevent them.

Your care is only as good as the evidence you use to base your practice on, and you can improve your care by finding better evidence and knowing how to interpret it.

Implement Like an Expert was designed to give you the knowledge and skills you need to confidently evaluate your care. No more guesswork. You will know what you are doing and why.

Implement Like an Expert includes the following programs on 6 audio CDs:

Evidence-based vs. Opinion-based Care: There is Strength in Numbers
A Scientific Approach to Nursing, Based on Evidence and Expert Opinion
Strategies to Keep Your Head Above the Sea of Research Literature
Evaluating the Evidence: What Works and Why
Better Interventions Come from Better Information: Using EBP at the Bedside
Painless Methods to Stay on the Cutting-Edge

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