Elsevier's Pathway to Nursing: Foundations for Success
- 1st Edition - October 30, 2025
- Latest edition
- Author: Elsevier
- Language: English
Elsevier's Pathway to Nursing: Foundations for Success is a comprehensive, self-paced online course designed to empower future nursing students with the academic knowledge,… Read more
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Description
Elsevier's Pathway to Nursing: Foundations for Success is a comprehensive, self-paced online course designed to empower future nursing students with the academic knowledge, critical thinking skills, and personal strategies essential for success in nursing school. Tailored for high school seniors, first-year BSN students, community college learners, and non-nursing students thinking about entering a nursing program, this course serves as a preparatory bridge between general education and the rigorous demands of professional nursing programs. Preparing for nursing school involves more than just mastering content—it requires developing effective study habits, practicing time management, building a resilient mindset, and gaining familiarity with healthcare terminology and environments. Through engaging, multimedia-rich modules, students will strengthen foundational science and math skills, become comfortable with medical language, explore ethical and legal standards, and build the confidence needed to tackle nursing school head-on.
Key features
Key features
• Modular Design with Multimedia Content: Engaging video instruction, dynamic images, and interactive lab activities across eight structured modules to support diverse learning styles. • Practice-Driven Learning: review questions, quizzes, and module exams designed to reinforce core pre-nursing concepts and promote critical thinking. • Self-Paced and Flexible: Students progress on their own schedule, making the course ideal for summer prep, gap periods, or transitional semesters. • Skill-Building Focus: Emphasis on strengthening math for healthcare, building medical terminology, and reviewing essential anatomy, physiology, and infection control practices. • Real-World Readiness: Lessons in professionalism, job readiness, communication, and legal/ethical issues provide insight into expectations of nursing school and clinical environments. • Assessment and Certification: Each module includes graded quizzes and a final assessment. Successful completion earns students a certificate of completion, showcasing their preparedness. • Confidence from Day One: With a strong academic and personal foundation, students enter nursing school equipped not only with knowledge—but with confidence, clarity, and purpose.
Readership
Readership
first-year BSN students and community college learners pursing LPN or RN certification
Table of contents
Table of contents
Elsevier's Pathway to Nursing: Foundations for Success Mod 1 Study Habits, Test-Taking Skills, and Resilience Lesson 1 Time Management Lesson 2 Study Habits Lesson 3 Test-Taking Skills Lesson 4 Resilience Mod 2 Communication Lesson 1 Communicating with Patients Lesson 2 Communicating with Co-Workers Lesson 3 Documenting Patient Care Mod 3 Ethical and Legal Issues Lesson 1 Principles of Ethics Lesson 2 Academic Integrity Lesson 3 Healthcare Laws and Compliance Lesson 4 HIPAA Mod 4 Infection Control Lesson 1 Microbial Disease Agents and Mechanisms of Spread Lesson 2 Standard Precautions Lesson 3 Basic Infection Control Lesson 4 Enhanced Infection Control Mod 5 Anatomy and Physiology Lesson 1 Cells, Tissue, Organs Lesson 2 Body Systems: Circulatory, Lymphatic, Nervous and Endocrine Lesson 3 Musculoskeletal, Digestive, Integumentary, and Sense Organs Lesson 4 Urinary, Reproductive and Respiratory Mod 6 Medical Terminology Lesson 1 Building Medical Terms: Prefixes, Suffixes, and Combining Forms Lesson 2 Body Structure and Directional Terminology Lesson 3 Body System Terminology: Circulatory, Lymphatic, Nervous and Endocrine Lesson 4 Body System Terminology: Musculoskeletal, Digestive, Integumentary, and Sense Organs Lesson 5 Body System Terminology: Urinary, Reproductive and Respiratory Mod 7 Math Lesson 1 Time and Temperature Lesson 2 Prescriptions and Drug Calculations Lesson 3 Weight-Based Dosage Calculations Lesson 4 Basic Statistics Mod 8 Health Careers, Job Readiness and Professionalism Lesson 1 Health Careers Lesson 2 Job Readiness Lesson 3 Professionalism
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: October 30, 2025
- Language: English