Skyscape Strengthens Nursing Market Presence With F.A. Davis Partnership; Top F.A. Davis Reference Books Now Available For Use On All PDAs.Business/Technology Editors HUDSON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 9, 2002 Skyscape skyscape a view or representation of the sky, especially in a painting, photograph, etc. See also: Representation , Inc., the leading provider of interactive, intelligent mobile solutions for the healthcare community, today announced an expansion of its nursing market initiatives and a new strengthened partnership with F.A. Davis. With its expanded partnership, Skyscape brings five of the most popular nursing references to the PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) A handheld computer for managing contacts, appointments and tasks. It typically includes a name and address database, calendar, to-do list and note taker, which are the functions in a personal information manager (see PIM). for the first time. These titles will complement the four F.A. Davis titles already available for PDAs and give the more than 2.7 million nurses and nursing students immediate access to critical information at the point of care. In the coming weeks, Skyscape will be adapting and releasing the following publications for use with handheld devices: -- Nurse's Fast Facts: The Only Book You Need for Clinicals!, 2nd Edition -- Practical Guide to Health Assessment Through the Life Span, 3rd Edition -- Nurse's Pocket Guide: Diagnoses, Interventions, and Rationales, 8th Edition -- Psychosocial Nursing for General Patient Care, 2nd Edition -- RNotes: Nurse's Clinical Pocket Guide These new titles complement Skyscape's core nursing offering of other F.A. Davis books which includes Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses, Taber's Cyclopedic cy·clo·pe·di·a also cy·clo·pae·di·a n. An encyclopedia. [Short for encyclopedia.] cy Medical Dictionary A medical dictionary is a lexicon for words used in medicine. The three major English language medical dictionaries are Stedman's, Taber's, and Dorland's medical dictionaries. , 19th Edition, Diseases and Disorders: A Nursing Therapeutics therapeutics Treatment and care to combat disease or alleviate pain or injury. Its tools include drugs, surgery, radiation therapy, mechanical devices, diet, and psychiatry. Manual, 2nd Edition, and Nurse's Manual of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests, 3rd Edition. "F.A. Davis books have served as the standard for nursing reference for decades, but now with the changing nature of nursing--nurses also need solutions they can take with them within the hospital, clinic or home care environment," said Judy Ilov Neely, senior vice president, F.A. Davis. "By teaming with Skyscape, F.A. Davis ensures nurses have access to the information they need, via their handhelds, no matter where they are." Leader in the Nursing Market - Skyscape Gives Nurses the Information They Need The F.A. Davis titles, powered by Skyscape, enable nurses, students and other health care professionals to search for information between F.A. Davis publications and other Skyscape-powered titles via their handhelds. This is made possible by the power of Skyscape's smARTlink(TM) technology. With it, nurses can research and make proper treatment decisions, check appropriate vital sign ranges, and determine how to best approach patients of different ages. Nurses simply load the Skyscape-powered titles that meet their needs onto their PDAs, and each seamlessly links between relevant sections of the different publications, ensuring that nurses can find the information they are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. , even if they are not sure where it is. "Nurses and nursing students need to know more today than they ever did before," said RJ Mathew, vice president marketing and business development for Skyscape. "Nurses are the largest single group of medical professionals, and they are increasingly relied upon to make critical decisions on a moment's notice. The F.A. Davis publications, enhanced with Skyscape technology, are helping nurses meet the growing demands on their time while allowing them to increase time with their patients with minimal disruption or separation from the patient." The new F.A. Davis, Skyscape-powered titles span the gamut See color gamut. gamut - The gamut of a monitor is the set of colours it can display. There are some colours which can't be made up of a mixture of red, green and blue phosphor emissions and so can't be displayed by any monitor. of nursing situations, including treatment, diagnoses and patient care. -- Nurse's Fast Facts: The Only Book You Need for Clinicals!, 2nd Edition--Provides the most sought after clinical information in eight nursing content areas: medical/surgical; maternal/infant; pediatric pediatric /pe·di·at·ric/ (pe?de-at´rik) pertaining to the health of children. pe·di·at·ric adj. Of or relating to pediatrics. ; mental health; emergency and critical care; gerontologic; nutrition; and home health care. -- Practical Guide to Health Assessment Through the Life Span, 3rd Edition-- A health assessment pocket guide designed as a quick reference for nursing students and nurses working in clinical settings. It covers nursing assessment for all age groups, with specialized communication techniques for clients of different ages and cultural backgrounds. -- Nurse's Pocket Guide: Diagnoses, Interventions, and Rationales, 8th Edition--Specifically designed for nursing students, this guide helps students identify interventions most commonly associated with nursing diagnoses when caring for patients. -- Psychosocial psychosocial /psy·cho·so·cial/ (si?ko-so´shul) pertaining to or involving both psychic and social aspects. psy·cho·so·cial adj. Involving aspects of both social and psychological behavior. Nursing for General Patient Care, 2nd Edition--Prepares students and nurses for common psychosocial and psychiatric problems that can coincide with patients' medical problems. -- RNotes: Nurse's Clinical Pocket Guide--Is a handy collection of commonly used but rarely memorized information such as charts, graphs, formulas, conversions and lab values. Skyscape's technology brings critical information to healthcare professionals, in a context they can use--reducing the time they need to spend searching for information and adding value by enabling complex queries and access to the latest healthcare information. Skyscape's patented ART(TM) Engine enables practitioners to follow their own intuitive thought process and workflow, improving quality of care and reducing administrative time. "I believe all nurses need a comprehensive guide to patient conditions," said Cynthia Francis Bechtel, MS, RN, CEN CEN - Conseil Européen pour la Normalisation. A body coordinating standardisation activities in the EEC and EFTA countries. , EMT-I EMT-I Emergency Medical Technician - Intermediate , MassBay Community College. "In our fast-paced healthcare setting it is essential that nurses be able to access information quickly. Since I started using a handheld with Skyscape-powered titles, I can just glance at it to quickly find the proper course of action even if I have never encountered the particular situation before." About F.A. Davis F.A. Davis is a leading American publisher that has been independently owned and operated since 1879. It is well known in the healthcare industry for its many best selling textbooks, references, and educational software in nursing, medicine and the health professions. Among its top selling titles are Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary, the best selling healthcare dictionary for over 60 years and Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses. In addition to nursing, F.A. Davis publishes extensively in the areas of physical therapy, occupational therapy, and clinical lab sciences. To learn more about F.A. Davis, please visit www.fadavis.com. About Skyscape Skyscape is the leading provider of interactive, intelligent mobile solutions for the healthcare community. Skyscape utilizes its patented ART (Advanced Reference and Transaction) infrastructure technology to create compelling high-value solutions for handheld devices that reflect and support the intuitive thought processes This is a list of thinking styles, methods of thinking (thinking skills), and types of thought. See also the List of thinking-related topic lists, the List of philosophies and the . of the medical practitioner. Skyscape's solutions significantly improve the quality and efficiency of medical decision making--at the point of care--by enabling doctors to diagnose illnesses, determine treatment, prescribe medication, identify drug interactions, calculate dosages and perform all the necessary steps involved with quality patient care. Skyscape has the largest installed base of paying customers in the industry including individual and communities of medical practitioners at Harvard Medical School Harvard Medical School (HMS) is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University. It is a prestigious American medical school located in the Longwood Medical Area of the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. , Massachusetts General Hospital Massachusetts General Hospital Health care The major teaching hospital for Harvard Medical School, widely regarded as one of the best health care centers in the world , Brigham and Women's Hospital Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) is a hospital in the Longwood Area of the Boston, Massachusetts neighborhood of Mission Hill. With Massachusetts General Hospital, it is one of the two founding members of Partners HealthCare. , Stanford Medical School, Partners Health System, Duke University, Mayo Clinic Mayo Clinic: see Mayo, Charles Horace. Mayo Clinic voluntary association of more than 500 physicians in Rochester, Minnesota. [Am. Hist.: EB, 11: 723] See : Medicine , and Kaiser Permanente Kaiser Permanente is an integrated managed care organization, based in Oakland, California, founded in 1945 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and physician Sidney R. Garfield. . Skyscape's solutions are available on multiple platforms Refers to two or more operating environments, which typically include the CPU family and operating system. For example, if versions of a program run on Windows and the Macintosh, the software is said to support multiple platforms. including Palm OS(R), Windows(R) CE, and Pocket PC. For more information about Skyscape, please visit our Web site at www.skyscape.com. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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