Davis Advantage for Medical-Surgical Nursing: Making Connections to Practice / Janice J. Hoffman PhD RN ANEF, Nancy J. Sullivan DNP RN,

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• Connects the concepts students are learning in class to the real world in which they will practice.
  
  
  
  • Creates a learning environment that strengthens their understanding and mastery of the content.
  
  
  • Promotes critical thinking and clinical decision making.
  
  
  • Emphasizes patient care by highlighting the how and why of clinical presentation and treatment plans.
  
  
  
  


• Focuses on the patient-centered role of the nurse.
  
  
  
  • Presents nursing management using the nursing process to identify and reinforce the nurse's responsibilities as a member of an inter-professional care team.
  
  
  • Focuses on the diseases and disorders that will be encountered most frequently in practice.
  
  
  • Correlates nursing interventions with the relevant physiologic and pathophysiologic content.
  
  
  • Incorporates the critical care content important for new nurses.
  
  
  
  

Personalized Learning Plans for Students

• Creates a Personalized Learning Plan for each student, beginning with a pre-test for each module that assesses their strengths and weaknesses.


• Charts the path for each student to follow to ensure they master the content.


• Creates personalized learning plans that ensure students master the content.


• Offers multiple paths to learning success through an immersive, interactive, multi-media experience with a wealth of quizzes, animations, and dynamic exercises.


• Tracks each student’s progress every step of the way in their Gradebooks; students know exactly how they’re doing and where they need to focus their studies.

Davis Edge Med-Surg

• Features progressive quizzing, customized to each student’s knowledge level that challenges them to reach higher levels of understanding, and identify the areas in which they need additional review.


• Provides comprehensive rationales for correct and incorrect answers that teach students how to analyze questions critically—ensuring they understand why they answered a question correctly, and when they don’t, how to improve.


• Includes self-grading that provides immediate feedback as each quiz is completed.


• Test-taking strategies and tips prepare students for course exams, ATI, HESI, and NCLEX^® exams.


• Alternate-format questions build confidence for these more difficult question types, including “select all that apply” and “ordered response.”


• Quiz builder lets students select practice quizzes by specific topics or concepts. 


• Student Success Center monitors students’ overall progress and identifies their strengths and weaknesses.