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    Mosby's, Corpak to partner in new online feeding tube placement skill

    Anyone else hear about this? Mosby's Nursing Skills and CORPAK MedSystems Partner to Create New Online Feeding Tube Placement Skill

    CORTRAK Placement Skill Will Help Nurses Avoid Tube Placement Complications, Minimize X-Ray Exposure and Control Costs
    Elsevier (http://www.elsevier.com), a world leader in healthcare and medical publishing and online solutions, today announced that Elsevier/Mosby Nursing Skills (Mosby's Nursing Skills - Mosby's Nursing Suite), a Web-based skills reference and competency management tool offering nurses detailed information on more than 900 skills, has partnered with Wheeling, Illinois-based CORPAK MedSystems (CORPAK Home Page), a manufacturer of enteral/vascular access devices, to develop an online skill reference for placing feeding tubes using the CORTRAK(R) Enteral Access System.

    "Mosby's Nursing Skills is proud to provide online education and training support for a unique bedside feeding tube placement system that offers advantages in total procedure costs, as well as the accuracy and safety of nasogastric or nasojejunal placements," said Kathleen Cohen, RN , Elsevier's Executive Clinical Editor. "Through this first-ever partnership between Elsevier and a medical device manufacturer, nurses who deliver care in hospitals and surgery centers can learn and reinforce tube placement skills, meeting patients' needs for comfort and nurse management's demands for quality, accuracy, safety and efficiency.

    The CORTRAK Skill within Mosby's Nursing Skills offers a quick sheet with an abbreviated step-by-step placement procedure, checklist, animated demonstration, illustrations, extended text with the full step-by-step placement procedure and an interactive test that allows nurses to assess their own knowledge and skill.

    The CORTRAK Skill is currently available to all current Nursing Skills subscribers. Hospitals that already use the CORTRAK System will have access to the CORTRAK skill, even if they are not currently Mosby Nursing Skills subscribers.

    Mosby's Nursing Skills interactive functionality also offers subscribers the opportunity to customize skills for institution-specific protocols and procedures or link to nursing policies and procedures. As a result, hospitals can easily develop an internal protocol for placing feeding tubes using CORTRAK-either by using the protocol directly or modifying it to meet unique clinical goals.

    "The CORPAK Placement Skill available through Mosby's Nursing skills will help nurses achieve more efficient, faster tube placements," said Jill Lazar, CORPAK's Senior Product Manager. "Benefits include elimination of the x-ray costs associated with feeding tube placement confirmation and earlier enteral access, which reduces length of stay and infection rates."

    Blending a skills and procedures reference with a learning and competency management system, Mosby's Nursing Skills offers subscribers access to more than 800 nursing skills and procedures with detailed text, summary reviews, tests, checklists, illustrations and video/animation demonstrations. Nurse managers and educators can assign, track and manage skills and test nursing staff, while nurse management can post and manage announcements and alerts to communicate with staff.

    The CORTRAK Placement Procedure will appear in the American Association of Critical Care Procedure Guide scheduled for publication in May 2010.

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    Sounds like a good idea to me. However, I wish the Mosby's online skills reference were free. Not everyone can afford to be paying for all these references but it doesn't mean we don't need the information regardless of our ability to pay for it.

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