ProMedica Health System Adds Lippincott’s Nursing Procedures and Skills and Lippincott’s Nursing Advisor to its Award-Winning Technology Program
“Top 100 Most Wired” Health System Provides Nurses Online Evidence-based References that Allow Instant Access to Expert Clinical Content at the Point of Care
Philadelphia, PA (May 25, 2010) – Lippincott Williams & Wilkins announced today ProMedica Health System (PHS) will provide the trusted nursing information in Lippincott’s Nursing Procedures and Skills and Lippincott’s Nursing Advisor to the nurses in their facilities. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins is part of Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading provider of information and business intelligence for students, professionals, and institutions in medicine, nursing, allied health, and pharmacy. ProMedica Health System is a not-for-profit health care organization that cares for more than 2.4 million patients annually.
Developed by a team of expert nurses with extensive clinical experience, Lippincott’s Nursing Procedures and Skills and Lippincott’s Nursing Advisor offer an impressive combination of features that help promote, monitor, and maintain staff excellence. By having institution-wide online access to almost 1,000 evidence-based procedures and skills in Lippincott’s Nursing Procedures and Skills and the point-of-care information found in Lippincott’s Nursing Advisor, ProMedica’s nurses are able to find trusted answers to critical nursing questions quickly and easily. Lippincott’s Nursing Procedures and Skills is also integrated in the HealthStream Learning Center® (HLC), allowing ProMedica, and other HealthStream customers, to efficiently handle the assignment, tracking, and reporting of procedures as learning activities.
“Innovative products, such as Lippincott’s Nursing Procedures and Skills and Lippincott’s Nursing Advisor, allow nurses to deliver an exceptional level of patient care,” says Judy McCann, MSN, RN, and Chief Nursing Officer at Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. “We are honored to work with ProMedica and HealthStream, recognized leaders at effectively utilizing the best technology to improve patient safety and operational efficiency.”
ProMedica has been named one of the nation’s Top 100 “Most Wired” systems, according to results of the 2009 Most Wired Survey and Benchmarking Study released in the July 2009 issue of Hospitals & Health Networks. More than 1,300 hospitals were represented in 556 completed surveys, and ProMedica Health System is one of only 10 organizations nationally to make the Most Wired list six times.
“We are pleased to provide our nurses with Lippincott's Nursing Procedures and Skills and Lippincott’s Nursing Advisor, top-notch clinical resources providing immediate access to many evidenced-based nursing practices, which assist them in delivering professional quality nursing care for our patients and families,” says Cindy Schriefer, Vice President Clinical Informatics, ProMedica.
Lippincott’s Nursing Procedures and Skills gives nurses accurate, step-by-step guidance for almost 1,000 procedures. It also provides skills checklists and competency tests on each procedure to help facilities verify their staff competence. Each procedure undergoes a thorough annual review process to ensure the most up-to-date clinical information is provided. Facilities are able to customize the program and procedures to meet their specific needs.
Lippincott’s Nursing Advisor is designed to give nurses easy access to the specific information needed to provide optimal patient care, including drugs, diseases, treatments, diagnostic tests, care plans, patient teaching, and signs and symptoms. Unique customization features allow hospital protocols or critical notes pertaining to those areas to be added, improving staff awareness, compliance and care standardization. This feature provides a valuable reference and training tool, customized to individual or system hospitals.
For more information or to request a free trial of Lippincott’s Nursing Procedures and Skills or Lippincott’s Nursing Advisor, contact Lippincott Williams & Wilkins at 1-800-326-1685 or visit us at www.lwwnursingsolutions.com.
About ProMedica Health System
ProMedica Health System is consistently ranked among the most integrated health systems in the United States, was formed in 1986 and is a Toledo, Ohio-based, not-for-profit health care organization with 15,000 employees, 2,900 physicians and more than 283 facilities in Ohio and Michigan. ProMedica treats more than 2.4 million patients annually and includes 10 hospitals; ProMedica Continuing Care Services with senior, hospice, rehabilitation and integrative services; ProMedica Physician Group, a large network of primary care, obstetrics, and specialty physicians; Paramount Health Care, the largest HMO in northwest Ohio; and the Health, Education and Research Corporation, with more than 200 academic relationships. For more information, please visit www.promedica.org.
