Elsevier Collaborates with the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN)

ATLANTA, June 24, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Elsevier, a pioneer in providing e-learning and performance solutions to more than 1,300 healthcare organizations, announced today its collaboration with the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) to review and update the Maternal-Newborn Skills within Mosby's Nursing Skills, providing users with the highest quality content possible.

"Nurses need access to specific, evidence-based information which they can reference at any time," said AWHONN's Chief Executive Officer, Karen Peddicord, RNC, PhD. "In partnership with AWHONN's expert reviewers, Mosby's Nursing Skills is an excellent resource for nurses who work in specialty fields, including our members who work primarily in the field of obstetric and newborn nursing."

A combined reference product and competency management system, Mosby's Nursing Skills is a comprehensive resource designed to meet the nurse education and training needs of healthcare organizations. The many skills within Mosby's Nursing Skills were developed in collaboration with various top-tier nursing organizations, including the American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN) and the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN).

"We are dedicated to working alongside highly respected organizations like AWHONN in order to provide our customers with the best product that will lead to enhanced patient safety and overall increased quality of care," said Barbara Nelson Cullen, Vice President, Strategy and Content Development, Elsevier.

Elsevier will work with AWHONN in reviewing the Maternal-Newborn skills to ensure that the content presented is consistent with AWHONN's Standards and Guidelines.

Mosby's Nursing Skills will be showcased by Elsevier / MC Strategies at the annual AWHONN convention, June 25-29, in Denver, Colo., as part of Mosby's Nursing Suite, an online nursing solution that provides training, education, skills reference, and support at the point of care.

About AWHONN

The Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) is the foremost nursing authority that advances the health care of women and newborns through advocacy, research and the creation of high quality, evidence-based standards of care.

AWHONN's 24,000 members worldwide are clinicians, educators and executives who serve as patient care advocates focusing on the needs of women and infants. A leader in professional development, AWHONN holds the distinction of twice receiving the Premier Program award by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) for innovation and excellence in Continuing Nursing Education (CNE).

Founded in 1969 as the Nurses Association of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the association became a separate nonprofit organization called the Association of Women's Health and Neonatal Nurses in 1993.

Visit AWHONN on Facebook.

About Elsevier Clinical Decision Support

Elsevier Clinical Decision Support (www.clinicaldecisionsupport.com), a division of Elsevier, the global leader in medical and health information, provides world class information and point-of-care technology solutions that optimize decisions and actions to improve the overall quality, safety and cost-effectiveness of care. The business delivers on this promise through actionable clinical content, care planning and documentation, drug reference and decision support, learning and performance management, and data mining and outcomes analytics solutions for provider, pharmacy and payer organizations.

About Elsevier

Elsevier is a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services. The company works in partnership with the global science and health communities to publish more than 2,000 journals, including The Lancet (www.thelancet.com) and Cell (www.cell.com), and close to 20,000 book titles, including major reference works from Mosby and Saunders. Elsevier's online solutions include SciVerseScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com), SciVerse Scopus (www.scopus.com), Reaxys (www.reaxys.com), MD Consult (www.mdconsult.com) and Nursing Consult (www.nursingconsult.com), which enhance the productivity of science and health professionals, and the SciVal suite (www.scival.com) and MEDai's Pinpoint Review (www.medai.com), which help research and health care institutions deliver better outcomes more cost-effectively.

A global business headquartered in Amsterdam, Elsevier (www.elsevier.com) employs 7,000 people worldwide. The company is part of Reed Elsevier Group PLC (www.reedelsevier.com), a world-leading publisher and information provider, which is jointly owned by Reed Elsevier PLC and Reed Elsevier NV. The ticker symbols are REN (Euronext Amsterdam), REL (London Stock Exchange), RUK and ENL (New York Stock Exchange).

Contact:
Tom Reller
Vice President of Global Relations, Elsevier
212.462.1912
[email protected]

SOURCE Elsevier

WANT YOUR COMPANY'S NEWS FEATURED ON PRNEWSWIRE.COM?

440k+
Newsrooms &
Influencers

9k+
Digital Media
Outlets

270k+
Journalists
Opted In

GET STARTED