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Nursing education resources for issues, trends, and informatics
Prepare students to navigate today’s evolving healthcare landscape with trusted resources focused on informatics, professional practice issues, and emerging trends in nursing.
Discover teaching resources for today’s nursing issues and emerging trends
Nurses must be prepared to respond to rapid technological change, evolving professional expectations, and complex healthcare challenges. Our Nursing Issues, Trends, and Informatics course solutions provide faculty with trusted, up-to-date resources that connect classroom learning to real-world practice and professional development.
Nursing in Today’s World: Trends, Issues, and Management, 13th Edition
Amy J. Buckway, EdD, MSN, RN
Holli Sowerby, EdD, MSN, CNE, RN
2026
Updated with engaging coverage of today’s most pressing concerns, Nursing in Today’s World: Trends, Issues, and Management, 13th edition, equips students for real-world nursing. Trusted features like the engaging Cartoon Curriculum, Unfolding Case Studies, and NCLEX® prep are complemented by exciting updates on civility, post-COVID burnout, and political advocacy.
Key features:
- Unfolding Case Studies deepen understanding and application with real-world scenarios and follow-up questions.
- New! Reflective Journals encourage students to process and internalize key concepts for better retention.
- Unique! Cartoon Curriculum offer engaging visuals and activities to bring humor and clarity to complex topics and enhance classroom activities and discussion questions.
- Critical Thinking Activities develop analytical skills essential for nursing practice.
- Communication in Action boxes highlight effective communication strategies in every aspect of nursing.
- Daily Ethical Dilemmas apply ethical decision-making to real-life healthcare situations.
- Theory Alerts introduce key nursing theorists and their contributions to practice.
- Evidence-Based Practice boxes showcase how research drives positive patient outcomes.
- NCLEX-Style Practice Questions prepare students for exams with chapter-end practice questions.
Leddy and Pepper’s Professional Nursing,
10th Edition
Lucy J. Hood, PhD, RN
2021
Easy to read, visually engaging, and updated with the latest practices and considerations in clinical nursing practice, Leddy and Pepper’s Professional Nursing, 10th Edition, provides a practical overview of the contemporary nursing profession and addresses the philosophical, developmental, sociocultural, environmental, political, health care delivery, and leadership issues essential to career enhancement in clinical practice.
Key features:
- Real-Life Reflections reinforce real-world workplace implications of nursing concepts.
- Questions for Reflection encourage reflective thinking and deepen students’ understanding.
- Take Note! alerts heighten awareness of important content takeaways.
- Professional Building Blocks highlight practical applications of theoretical concepts.
- Learning, Knowing, & Growing boxes facilitate self-assessment and help students improve specific skills.
- Concepts in Practice boxes translate chapter content to clinical application in nursing practice.
- Focus on Research features cultivate evidence-based practice.
- Professional Prototypes familiarize students with common documents or approaches they’ll encounter in professional practice.
- Nurse As Author assignments hone students’ professional writing skills.
- Figures throughout the text clarify challenging concepts and approaches.
- Tables enable students to easily compare theoretical approaches or review key theoretical concepts.
- Key Terms & Concepts and Learning Outcomes keep students focused on essential material for efficient study.
- Your Digital Classroom feature guides students to online resources for further study.
Informatics and Nursing: Opportunities and Challenges, 7th Edition
Dr. Kristi S. Miller, PhD, CPPS, CNE, RN
2024
Combining up-to-date coverage of emerging technological advances and an emphasis on patient-centered care, Informatics and Nursing: Opportunities and Challenges, 7th Edition, helps you keep pace with a rapidly changing field and cultivate the communication and information literacy capabilities students need to confidently integrate informatics into nursing practice.
Key features:
- NEW! Coverage of the latest technological advancements familiarizes students with emerging and evolving areas including artificial intelligence, telehealth, home monitoring, and more.
- NEW! Applying Nursing Informatics to Patient Safety chapter instills a practical understanding of societal and cultural impacts such as civility, advocacy, and communication.
- NEW! Case Studies connect chapter concepts to practice strengthening clinical judgment.
- Case-based learning activities, key terms, and learning objectives reinforce key chapter takeaways.
Lippincott® CoursePoint for Nursing Issues, Trends, and Informatics
Lippincott CoursePoint is the leading digital curriculum solution for nursing education. It combines trusted eBook content with videos and interactive learning resources — all supported by in-depth reporting that gives educators actionable insights to personalize learning.
Feature highlights:
- Interactive eBooks allow students to access the title anytime, take notes, and highlight text; with the read-aloud feature, learning is convenient.
- Stedman’s® Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing features more than 56,000 medical terms and thousands of images to illustrate key medical terms and concepts.
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Lippincott® Client Cases for Clinical Judgment
Encourage thoughtful practice in patient care. Build a clinical judgment mindset across the curriculum with cognitive practice in hundreds of realistic and complex patient scenarios. Lippincott offers Client Cases for Clinical Judgment in 17 areas in unfolding EHRs.
Lippincott® DocuCare
Lippincott® DocuCare gives students hands-on experience with realistic charting and workflows modeled after leading EHR systems. With 400 customizable patient records, robust clinical decision support, and clinically realistic simulation updates, all in a user-friendly course management platform. Students build clinical judgment along with charting and communication skills that today’s healthcare employers expect and patients need.
vSim® for Nursing*
Deliver the most realistic and up-to-date experience available with expert-authored virtual simulations co-developed by Laerdal Medical and scenarios written by National League for Nursing. vSim® for Nursing provides real-world, evidence-based scenarios with built-in point-of-care solutions for reference and remediation to hone students’ clinical judgment and competence. *Included in CoursePoint+
vrClinicals for Nursing
Enhance clinical decision-making skills with virtual experiences that immerse students in realistic, multi-patient care scenarios. Allowing students to prepare in this safe setting enhances their confidence and readies them for the demands of practice.