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MC Strategies to Deliver Mosby’s Clinical Calculations

MC Strategies to Deliver Mosby’s Clinical Calculations

MC Strategies, Inc., a leader in e-learning solutions for healthcare professionals, today announced it will be offering Mosby’s Clinical Calculations to nurses. Courses offer nurses an opportunity to earn 11.7 contact hours*.

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) July 12, 2006

MC Strategies, Inc., a leader in e-learning solutions for healthcare professionals, today announced it will be offering Mosby’s Clinical Calculations to nurses. Courses offer nurses an opportunity to earn 11.7 contact hours*.

Mosby’s Clinical Calculations courses are appropriate for any nurse who has the need to calculate medication doses. This online program covers calculations that are relevant to the clinical setting and can minimize the occurrence of medication errors caused by incorrect calculations. Nurses can experience Mosby’s Clinical Calculations through tutorial sessions with vivid animations and practice exercises.

The General Calculations course covers content areas from basic math and drug calculation to forms of medication administration. Specialty Calculations -- which includes Critical Care, Pediatric and Pediatric Critical Care and Labor and Delivery -- focuses on a variety of content areas such as calculation of infusion rates and titrations. Nurses taking lessons in specialty areas can earn contact hours after successfully completing each lesson.

“It is exciting to have the opportunity to combine Mosby’s comprehensive Clinical Calculations lessons with our online tools to create a flexible, self-study learning environment,” said Maribel Rodriguez-Brogden, Vice President, Program Planning for MC Strategies.

MC Strategies supplies nursing and clinical-related curricula to healthcare professionals. Courses are delivered by the company’s Knowledge Deployment System® (KDS), developed specifically to bring interactive e-learning solutions to hospitals.

About Mosby

Dedication to publishing excellence has made Mosby the first choice information provider in medicine, nursing, allied health and veterinary medicine since 1906.

In addition to a complete line of textbooks, reference books and periodicals, Mosby's suite of healthcare resources includes newsletters, videos, CD-ROM, seminars, conferences and association management — a line of products and services as far-reaching as the spectrum of healthcare disciplines they address.

Elsevier/Mosby is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

About MC Strategies, Inc.

Headquartered in Atlanta, GA, MC Strategies has been providing web-based training and education products and services to healthcare professionals since 1986. MC Strategies is part of Elsevier Health Sciences, home to some of the world’s premier names in healthcare publishing such as Mosby and Saunders. The company’s WebInservice division is a pioneer in providing e-learning solutions and serves a client base of over 1,300 healthcare organizations nationwide, including integrated health delivery networks, hospitals, academic institutions and the federal government. For more information, visit www. mcstrategies. com or call 800-999-6274.

WebInservice® and Knowledge Deployment System® are registered trademarks of MC Strategies, Inc.

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