Elsevier to Provide Online Nursing Resources to...

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, February 1 /PRNewswire/ --

    - Elsevier to Provide Online Reference and Skills Tools for Nurses 
Working In Hospitals and Clinics Throughout the Organization.



    Elsevier [LSE: REL , NYSE: EML] today announces that Kaiser Permanente 
will adopt its premier online nursing resources, Mosby's Nursing Skills and 
Mosby's Nursing Consult, across its national provider network.



    Mosby's Nursing Skills offers the most comprehensive combination of
skills and multimedia content available. Over 480 skills from leading
reference works in nursing are available including prestigious titles such as
Perry and Potter: Clinical Nursing Skills & Techniques, Proehl: Emergency
Nursing Procedures and AACN: Procedure Manual for Critical Care. By using the
product's interactive tools, nurse managers and educators can assign, track
and manage skills as well as assess and document staff competencies.



    Mosby's Nursing Consult brings the leading nursing reference resources
together in one integrated, online service to help nurses efficiently find
answers to pressing clinical questions. It includes: the latest drug
information, patient education, professional journals, reference books,
nursing news, clinical practice guidelines, and evidence-based practice
content.



    "We are pleased to be working with Kaiser Permanente, an organization
that is nationally recognized for delivering excellent healthcare and
services. This partnership supports our goal of assisting hospitals in
improving the outcomes of their patient care. We are committed to providing
our customers with the highest quality nursing information in a format that
is useful to their nursing organization," says Brian Nairn, CEO, Elsevier,
Health Sciences Division.



    "Kaiser Permanente seeks solutions that will help standardize both the
patient care and the skills competencies of our nurses across our entire
network," says Marilyn Chow, RN, DNSc, FAAN, Vice President, Patient Care
Services, Kaiser Permanente. "These resources will assist our nurses in
getting answers to their clinical questions as we work to improve safety and
help us maintain our high quality of care delivered by Kaiser Permanente's
nursing organization."



    More information can be found at www.NursingSkills.com and
www.NursingConsult.com or at booth 3945 at the Healthcare Information and
Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference in New Orleans,
Louisiana, USA, February 25 - March 1, 2007.



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).