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Looking for an education platform to assist with ensuring skill protocols are updated with best practice and to use to educate new MAs, LVNs, and RNs on clinical skills. We have used Mosby skills in the past. Any good ones out there?

Hello Angelina!

Our organization uses Elsevier Clinical Skills as our online library for best practices. I believe this was previously known as Mosby's Nursing Skills. It has access to a large library of age appropriate skills that can also provide CE credit (if assigned and they pass an assessment, or they can just view/review), and there is a checklist available. Our competencies are a single line item (ex: intramuscular injection, adult) but the orientee or preceptor can use this checklist to see all of the step by step items that need to be addressed in order to be considered competent (otherwise we would have a 75 page competency). 

I enjoy Elsevier because it has several ways to meet the needs of most learning styles, including an extended text that dives more into the rationale for those of us that want to know why we're doing things are certain way (don't just tell me to do it, tell me why we're doing it that way), videos, and pictures. 

Clinical Skills also includes some advanced practice skills (ex: intraarticular injections). If your clinic(s) hire new to practice APPs or have graduate students, this may be a useful feature for them to have access to. 

There is also access to Elsevier Clinical Key, which is their library of clinical textbooks and journals (but in full transparency I am unsure if this is an additional fee to the Clinical Skills cost). 

Looking for an education platform to assist with ensuring skill protocols are updated with best practice and to use to educate new MAs, LVNs, and RNs on clinical skills. We have used Mosby skills in the past. Any good ones out there?

Looking for an education platform to assist with ensuring skill protocols are updated with best practice and to use to educate new MAs, LVNs, and RNs on clinical skills. We have used Mosby skills in the past. Any good ones out there?

Good morning, 

We use Lippincott.  It is evidence-based, has procedures, and competency checklists.  I will say that I wish they had more videos and updates to the look of their site, but it currently meets our needs very nicely. 

Angela

Looking for an education platform to assist with ensuring skill protocols are updated with best practice and to use to educate new MAs, LVNs, and RNs on clinical skills. We have used Mosby skills in the past. Any good ones out there?

Looking for an education platform to assist with ensuring skill protocols are updated with best practice and to use to educate new MAs, LVNs, and RNs on clinical skills. We have used Mosby skills in the past. Any good ones out there?

Looking for an education platform to assist with ensuring skill protocols are updated with best practice and to use to educate new MAs, LVNs, and RNs on clinical skills. We have used Mosby skills in the past. Any good ones out there?

Thank you for this information, Maria. Does each user have their own login and does it track competencies for each individual?

Looking for an education platform to assist with ensuring skill protocols are updated with best practice and to use to educate new MAs, LVNs, and RNs on clinical skills. We have used Mosby skills in the past. Any good ones out there?