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March 06, 2012

Wolters Kluwer Health, HealthStream Team to Enhance Nurse Professional Development


Wolters Kluwer Health, an international healthcare solutions provider and publisher, has signed a partnership agreement with HealthStream to offer the Lippincott’s Professional Development Programs product suite to HealthStream’s customer base of healthcare organizations.

Specifically built for nurses, the Lippincott’s Professional Development Programs are interactive learning tools that can improve nurse competency and meet compliance standards.

As per the new agreement, HealthStream customers can make use of all of the Lippincott’s Nursing Solutions – a point-of-care nursing workflow product suite to enhance nursing performance, increase clinical knowledge, ensure staff competence, improve patient outcomes, and support clinical excellence.

Nurses can benefit from Lippincott’s Professional Development Programs that includes 21 educational and training sun programs, which will be offered through the HealthStream’s learning platform.

“At HealthStream, our vision is to improve healthcare by developing the people who deliver care—and offering Lippincott’s Professional Development Programs product suite supports this process,” said Arthur E. Newman, executive vice president, HealthStream.

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins is part of Wolters Kluwer Health, global provider of information, business intelligence and point-of-care solutions for the healthcare industry.

Recently, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins launched an innovative learning solution for nursing students, anchored with a comprehensive medical-surgical textbook and supported by interactive learning tools.

The new textbook, Focus on Adult Health: Medical Surgical Nursing, is designed to prepare today's students to succeed as practicing nurses by focusing on the most important medical disorders and key nursing responsibilities. The book is supported by interactive learning tools including an adaptive quizzing program and a simulated electronic health record (EHR).




Edited by Carrie Schmelkin
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