St. Louis, April 19, 2006 – Elsevier, the world-leading healthcare and scientific publisher, today launches Mosby’s Nursing Skills, an online nursing skills and procedures reference solution at the American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE) 39th Annual Meeting in Orlando. Mosby’s Nursing Skills provides healthcare organizations with enterprise-wide access to a robust collection of high quality nursing skills content as well as an effective tool for documenting assessments of staff competencies.

Elsevier created Mosby’s Nursing Skills using several of its industry leading references including Perry & Potter’s Clinical Nursing Skills & Techniques, 6th Ed., Proehl’s Emergency Nursing Procedures, 3rd Ed., and AACN Procedure Manual for Critical Care, 5th Ed.

"Nurses play a vital role in the U.S. healthcare system and Elsevier is committed to providing the innovative information resources they need to deliver competent, quality patient care," said Brian K. Bussey, Vice President, eProfessional Products, Elsevier. "Recognizing that nurses are pressed for time, we developed Mosby’s Nursing Skills to provide nurses with quick access to the most comprehensive database of nursing skills and procedures content."

Featuring more than 480 interactive skills and supplemental content such as patient handouts, Mosby’s Nursing skills is the most complete skills product available. Each skill module offers customizable, step-by-step descriptive text that is written in both summary and detailed versions.

"In addition, each skill includes animation or video demonstrations of the procedure, an online test to assess critical knowledge of the skill and a competency checklist for performance evaluation," said Leslie Zacks, Director, Clinical Products, Elsevier. "Nurse managers and administrators also have access to learning management tools that are embedded into the product to easily assign competency assessments, evaluate and document staff competency, communicate with staff, and generate unit-level or organization-level reports."

Nurse Executives and healthcare organizations can view a demo and register for a free trial by visiting (www.nursingskills.com). More information about Mosby’s Nursing Skills is available at the Elsevier booth (#1413) during the AONE Annual Meeting, April 19 - 22.

About Elsevier

Elsevier is a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and healthcare information products and services. Working in partnership with the global science and health communities, Elsevier’s 7,000 employees in 74 offices worldwide publish more than 1,800 journals and 2,200 new books per year, in addition to offering a suite of innovative electronic products, such as MD Consult (www.mdconsult.com/ ), FIRST Consult (www.FIRSTConsult.com), Mosby’s Nursing Consult (www.mosbysnursingconsult.com), ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com/), Scopus (www.info.scopus.com/), bibliographic databases, online reference works and subject specific portals.

Elsevier (www.elsevier.com/) is a global business headquartered in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and has offices worldwide. Elsevier is part of Reed Elsevier Group plc (www.reedelsevier.com/), a world-leading publisher and information provider. Operating in the science and healthcare, legal, education and business-to-business sectors, Reed Elsevier provides high-quality and flexible information solutions to users, with increasing emphasis on the Internet as a means of delivery. Reed Elsevier's ticker symbols are REN (Euronext Amsterdam), REL (London Stock Exchange), RUK and ENL (New York Stock Exchange).

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Leslie Zacks
Director, Mosby's Nursing Skills
St.Louis, MO
314-453-4776