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Shadow Health provides a safe, standardized environment for graduate nursing students to develop their clinical reasoning skills through realistic interactions with Digital Standardized Patients™.
Shadow Health provides a safe, standardized environment for graduate nursing students to develop their diagnostic reasoning skills through realistic interactions with Digital Standardized Patients™.
Elsevier offers 8 graduate collections designed to meet your course objectives and prepare your students to be effective healthcare providers.
Students expand skills to gather and synthesize data across the lifespan in a systematic manner for the diagnostic process.
Assignments
Single System Exams with Tina Jones: (Health History; HEENT; Respiratory; Cardiovascular; Abdominal; Musculoskeletal; Neurological; Skin, Hair, Nails; Discharge)
Comprehensive Assessment (Tina Jones)
Focused Exam: Cough (Danny Rivera)
Focused Exam: Chest Pain (Brian Foster)
Focused Exam: Abdominal Pain (Esther Park)
Concept Labs
Conversation Concept Lab (Rachel Adler)
Respiratory Concept Lab
Cardiovascular Concept Lab
Abdominal Concept Lab
Students deepen their understanding of the pathophysiologic basis of disease process.
Assignments
Cells, Genes, Tissues, and Common Alterations
The Nervous System and Common Alterations
The Pulmonary System and Common Alterations
The Cardiovascular System and Common Alterations
The Gastrointestinal System and Common Alterations
The Endocrine System and Common Alterations
The Renal and Urologic Systems and Common Alterations
The Hematologic System and Common Alterations
Students practice selecting and safely prescribing medications.
Assignments
Focused Exams
Pediatric GAS Pharyngitis (Sophia Haddad)
UTI with Antibiotic Sensitivity (Makayla Henderson)
Community-Acquired Pneumonia (Anita Douglas)
COPD (Debbie O’Connor)
Hypertension and Type 2 Diabetes (Arun Patel)
Pain Management (Tanner Bailey)
Mechanism of Action Concept Labs
Anti-Asthmatics
Antihypertensives
Antidiabetics
Analgesics
Anti-Infectives
Students synthesize data from the patient exam to determine a diagnosis and treatment plan for adults.
Assignments
Well Visit: New Patient (Xavier Daniels)
Sick Visit: Integumentary (Felipe Barbosa)
Follow-Up Sick Visit: Musculoskeletal (Shoshanna Tillman)
Sick Visit: Management of Endocrine Conditions (Maureen Hopkins)
Telehealth Follow-Up Sick Visit: Management of Cardiovascular Conditions (Liam Fitzgerald)
Students engage with a set of patients who are experiencing a variety of mental health conditions.
Assignments
Focused Exam: Schizophrenia (Eric Ford)
Focused Exam: Anxiety (John Larsen)
Focused Exam: Depression (Abigail Harris)
Focused Exam: Bipolar Disorder (Lucas Callahan)
Focused Exam: Alcohol Use Disorder (Rachel Adler)
Focused Exam: PSTD (Nicole Diaz)
Follow-Up Visit: Adolescent ADHD (Sebastian Stavros)
Students provide care for patients, who range in age from infant to adolescent, and their family units.
Assignments
Focused Exam: Respiratory Syncytial Virus (Eden Wu)
Focused Exam: Asthma Exacerbation (Gabriel Martinez)
Focused Exam: Type 1 Diabetes (Chelsea Warren)
Focused Exam: Traumatic Brain Injury (Damien Brooks)
Focused Exam: Long Bone Fracture (Landon Smith)
Focused Exam: Cystic Fibrosis (Kyle Reeves)
Continuum of Care: Congestive Heart Failure (Isabella Burgel)
Students synthesize assessment data, including reproductive health exams, to determine a diagnosis and treatment plan for patients.
Assignments
Problem Visit: Contraceptive Care (Jasmine Santos)
Sick Visit: Abnormal Uterine Bleeding (Dominque Washington)
Well-Woman Exam (Melanie Bishop)
Problem Visit: Menopause (Nicole Diaz)
Sick Visit: Pregnancy Complication (Rochelle Joseph)
Students synthesize data to determine differential diagnoses.
Assignments
Medical Decision Making
Introduction to Advanced Diagnostics (Tanner Bailey)
Conditions of the Gastrointestinal and Genitourinary Systems (Tina Jones)
Conditions of the Cardiovascular System (Brian Foster)
Conditions of the Hematologic System (Anita Douglas)
Conditions of the Musculoskeletal and Neurovascular Systems (Chelsea Warren)
