Friday, July 16, 2010

MC Strategies Premieres Mosby's Geriatric Nursing Content

MC Strategies Premieres Mosby's Geriatric Nursing Content

MC Strategies, part of Elsevier Life Sciences, releases new courseware, Mosby's Geriatric Nursing, to allow nurses to learn and earn credits online.

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) December 29, 2006

MC Strategies, Inc., (www. mcstrategies. com) based in Atlanta launches new educational courseware, Mosby's Geriatric Nursing. The course was developed by nurse experts using materials developed by Mosby and is powered by the WebInservice Knowledge Deployment System®. This offering provides nurses working with older adult patients a web-based program that allows them to access it any time from any location with an Internet connection.

The new course covers 12 topics (see below) and includes 27 lessons -- and offers nurses an opportunity to earn contact hours at any time that is convenient to them.

Mosby's Geriatric Nursing provides realistic patient care situations and presents them as clinical scenarios. It also includes critical thinking exercises and tips to sharpen judgment in clinical environments. Evidence-based information provides a scientific approach to care of older patients and offers printable tables of key content for use in a clinical practice.

Mosby's Geriatric Nursing Course includes:

 Gerontological Assessment  Pain  Pharmacologic Management  Cardiovascular  Respiratory  Endocrine Function  Gastrointestinal  Musculoskeletal  Renal  Cognitive and Neurological  Mental Health  Integumentary

About Mosby

Dedication to publishing excellence has made Mosby the first choice information provider in medicine, nursing, allied health and veterinary medicine since 1906. In addition to a complete line of textbooks, reference books and periodicals, Mosby's suite of healthcare resources includes newsletters, videos, CD-ROM, seminars, conferences and association management -- a line of products and services as far-reaching as the spectrum of healthcare disciplines they address.

About MC Strategies, Inc.

Headquartered in Atlanta, GA, MC Strategies has been providing web-based training and education products and services to healthcare professionals since 1986. MC Strategies is part of Elsevier Health Sciences, home to some of the world's premier names in healthcare publishing such as Mosby and Saunders. The company's WebInservice division is a pioneer in providing e-learning solutions and serves a client base of over 1,300 healthcare organizations nationwide, including integrated health delivery networks, hospitals, academic institutions and the federal government. For more information, visit www. mcstrategies. com or call 800-999-6274.

Elsevier, a world-leading Health Sciences Publisher, is the parent company of MC Strategies and Mosby.

Elsevier/Mosby is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

MC Strategies, Inc is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Georgia Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. MC Strategies, Inc. is provider approved by the Florida Board of Nursing. The provider number is #50-4681. Elsevier/Mosby is provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing. The California Provider number is CEP 3257.

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