Connecting bioscience with patient care - LabTutor for Nursing Education

Build your students' bioscience knowledge around real patients and hands-on learning experiences with LabTutor for Nursing. LabTutor for Nursing is an innovative software that interweaves patient case studies and practical exercises to teach physiology and anatomy concepts and how they apply to clinical practice.

Start using LabTutor for Nursing in 2012, and receive free LabAuthor training As a special new year offer, ADInstruments Europe are giving 3 free places at our two-day LabAuthor software training courses to any department that places their first LabTutor order before May 2012. These courses will teach you how to adapt LabTutor content to completely align with your syllabus. Find out more about this promotion.

Address a range of nursing core competency requirements By completing LabTutor for Nursing exercises your students will: Build their nursing careers on a strong and relevant bioscience knowledge base Experience and explore real clinical scenarios Learn to work as part of a cohesive interprofessional team Understand the respect and empathy required in patient care Gain technological aptitude and confidence using computers and e-Learning tools NEW Applied Nursing Collection: Enhanced Nursing Content and Two New Exercises The 15 practicals in LabTutor's Applied Nursing Collection build on previous LabTutor releases by incorporating more focused and relevant content than ever before. Developed in conjunction with educators and clinical professionals, the new collection offers: Two new topics - Pregnancy and Childbirth, including video footage from a birth, interviews with women, their families and midwives, and high-quality anatomical animations. New Nurse video interviews - Experienced nurses (including diabetes, cardiac and paediatric specialists) illuminate the role nurses play in patients' acute and ongoing care More interprofessional content - Case studies now include interviews with additional relevant healthcare professionals including physiotherapists, dieticians, podiatrists and occupational therapists. Pharmacology in context - Where relevant, patients' drug therapies are listed, and their anticipated physiological effects explained. Patient follow-up interviews - Several case studies now feature interviews with patients filmed months after the initial interviews, giving students an insight into long-term care strategies and allowing them to evaluate the initial treatment.

Explore a LabTutor for Nursing Practical LabTutor for Nursing integrates real patient case studies with bioscience theory and complementary hands-on exercises.
Stage 1: Hand-on practical exercises LabTutor software leads students step-by-step through each exercise. Students experience both nurse and patient roles working in teams to record physiological signals from each other. By linking their recordings and experiences to scientific concepts, students can gain an evidence-based understanding of bioscience theory normally confined to lectures and textbooks.
Stage 2: Real clinical case studies Through high-quality video students meet real patients, and are able to explore how altered physiology affects a patient's health and relationships. Students also meet nursing staff and other healthcare professionals, to see and learn more about how patients are cared for in clinical environments.
The exercise collection explores physiological functions and anatomical structures integral to any nursing syllabus and at the core of clinical practice:
Autonomic Nervous System Blood Pressure Body Temperature Brain Structure and Reflexes Childbirth	Glucose Metabolism Heart and Circulation Heart and Electrocardiography Heart Sounds Kidney and Urine	Lung Function Muscle and Fatigue Muscle Function Peripheral Nerve Function Pregnancy
ADInstruments holds written informed consents from all of the patients, their relatives, Doctors and other Health Professionals for the use of the videos, the results of investigations and other materials used in these cases, and all promotional materials related to them.

Economical and easy-to-use teaching system

Our Health Science Teaching System contains the equipment students need to measure physiological signals when completing LabTutor for Nursing exercises. The system is safe and easy-to-use, so students are able to get started quickly and complete exercises independently.

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Read what nursing educators say about LabTutor...

"I use LabTutor with nursing students to revisit and rework physiology lecture material in a new setting. It brings a tutorial aspect into the course and I have no doubt completing hands-on practical exercises improves students' understanding. In addition, taking physiological measurements from each other gives students some insight into what it may be like for a patient, in terms of being subjected to a whole variety of potential interventions. This method of learning is more interesting for students, and their feedback has always been very positive."

Dr. Therese Ruane-O'Hora,
University College Cork, Ireland

"LabTutor increases student motivation and engages them, increasing their desire to learn. I have never had the students ask for more assignments before, but several students wanted a case study for each type of disease process. Previously, students were prone to just memorising facts and were not interested in understanding why. With LabTutor, their learning is at a deeper level, something they will remember years from now, not just for the next test."

Lynn Phillips RN, MSN,
Beth-El College of Nursing, Colorado Springs