Elsevier Launches Mosby's Nursing Consult

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, January 5 /PRNewswire/ --

- Nursing's Most Trusted Resources Come Together in Online Service

    Today Elsevier, the world-leading scientific, technical, and healthcare
professions publisher, announced the launch of Mosby's Nursing Consult(TM), a
comprehensive online resource designed to help nurses provide better patient
care.



    Mosby's Nursing Consult consolidates the profession's leading books and
journals, drug information, patient handouts, news and evidence-based
articles into a single, easy-to-use service perfect for clinical nurses,
nurse administrators and nursing faculty. From computer terminals at nurses'
stations, medical libraries and patient bedsides, users of Mosby's Nursing
Consult are quickly able to access leading nursing publications enhanced with
electronic search tools reducing the amount of time spent browsing the same
information offline. Developed in direct response to well-documented nursing
shortage, Mosby's Nursing Consult offers a robust collection of standard
nursing content designed to fit into the current workflow of a clinical
environment and provide efficiencies to nurses already overextended with the
demands of patient care.



    Using its established industry leading references and nursing brands,
Elsevier developed the product as a complete collection appropriate for the
nursing information needs of most hospitals. "We hand picked some of the most
well-respected nursing thought leaders to supervise Mosby's Nursing Consult
content selection and development," said Brian Bussey, Vice President,
E-Professional Products, Health Sciences, Elsevier. "This advisory board went
to great lengths to ensure the most relevant, authoritative information was
chosen to help busy nurses efficiently find answers to pressing clinical
questions."



    "The Nursing Advisory Board is excited that Elsevier is offering Mosby's
Nursing Consult with its vast clinical resources to hospital nurses. Having
these resources readily available in the nursing unit will make a significant
difference in how quickly nurses find the information they need to deliver
safe quality care." said Chris Pasero MS, RN, FAAN, Pain Management and
Clinical Consultant, Member of the Elsevier Nursing Advisory Board



    Mosby's Nursing Consult is available via subscription to institutions,
hospitals, and individuals. Elsevier support staff will help find the product
configuration that best suits the needs of the organisation, allowing users
to access the product from within the hospital and from outside the
institution. Elsevier's customer support team will provide training and
technical support for staff members.



    Due to high market demand, a number of hospitals have already purchased
Mosby's Nursing Consult, including Ball Memorial, Muncie, IN, US Army
Medical Command, Texas, Anne Arundel Medical Center, Annapolis, MD and
Gunderson Medical Center in Lacrosse, WI.



    Elsevier will be adding additional electronic products in 2006 to support
nurses in the clinical environment and working to offer Mosby's Nursing
Consult as part of electronic health record (EHR) applications. For more
information about Mosby's Nursing Consult, visit www.NursingConsult.com or to
receive a free institutional trial, email [e-mail] or call
[phone]. The product will be demonstrated at the HIMSS (Healthcare
Information and Management Systems Society) annual conference on February 12.



About Elsevier

    Elsevier is a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and
medical information products and services. Working in partnership with the
global science and health communities, Elsevier's 7,000 employees in over 70
offices worldwide publish more than 2,000 journals and 1,900 new books per
year, in addition to offering a suite of innovative electronic products, such
as ScienceDirect (http://www.sciencedirect.com/), MD Consult (
http://www.mdconsult.com/), Scopus (http://www.info.scopus.com/),
bibliographic databases, and online reference works.



    Elsevier (http://www.elsevier.com/) is a global business headquartered in
Amsterdam, The Netherlands and has offices worldwide. Elsevier is part of
Reed Elsevier Group plc (http://www.reedelsevier.com/), a world-leading
publisher and information provider. Operating in the science and medical,
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).