Shadow Health®

Shadow Health’s Digital Clinical Experiences™ is designed to augment courses for nursing students. Students engage with Digital Standardized Patients™ using a state-of-the-art conversation engine and interactive 3D imagery to perform assessments, practice documentation, and demonstrate critical thinking.

Brent Gordon, Managing Director and General Manager, Nursing and Health Education, Elsevier

“I am excited to welcome the Shadow Health team to Elsevier and look forward to supporting the needs of our customers while advancing our shared purpose of improving learning outcomes and practice readiness for future health professionals.
David Massias, Co-founder and CEO, Shadow Health

“The global pandemic has brought the need for virtual simulations in nursing and healthcare education into sharp focus. What is clear is that when we invest in better training for nurses, we’ll see better outcomes for patients. Shadow Health’s Digital Clinical Experiences allow learners to develop their clinical judgment and communication skills by interviewing, examining, and treating virtual patients. I’m very proud of everyone at Shadow Health. They have a heart for healthcare — for patients and their families — and work tirelessly to serve our customers better. Now, together with Elsevier, we’re excited to work as one team to accelerate global health, one patient and one nurse at a time.”

This acquisition enhances Elsevier’s extensive digital education and clinical practice offerings for healthcare practitioners during a time of continued growth in telehealth.

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Shadow Health in the News:

Virtual patients training real people in simulated nursing program

“A simulation program to train nurses is gaining in popularity. Shadow Health is using virtual patients to train real people in hopes of quickly bringing those real students into the workforce. From pediatrics to maternal health, the future of nursing school is happening now.”

UF Nursing School continues education through simulation courses

"Gainesville-based software company Shadow Health has joined forces with Elsevier-- a globally used analytics company-- to bring virtual simulation in nursing education, to the next level."

Nursing Students Train with Virtual Patients During Pandemic

"Virtual patients are stepping in for real ones and allowing nursing students to continue their training during the pandemic."

Foster Students' Clinical Judgment Throughout Their Journey

Student success on the Next Generation NCLEX and in practice depends on how your program approaches developing job-ready students. An essential aspect of this is using comprehensive, consistent tools across your nursing curriculum that foster clinical judgment and critical thinking. Only Elsevier offers a complete, end-to-end solution with the authoritative and consistent content and digital solutions required to help students develop the knowledge and skills necessary to excel on the NCLEX and in practice.

Discover how our products best support your students for the NCLEX

Build Knowledge

Enduring Elsevier content, built to establish a foundation for practice, is key to reinforcing students’ ability to make connections between recognized cues, analyze them to develop hypotheses, and take action to generate solutions.
Products that build knowledge with enduring Elsevier content:

Apply Clinical Judgment

Elsevier digital solutions enable you to bring clinical judgment concepts into the classroom and lab. Products such as HESI Case Studies, SimChart®, and Simulation Learning System create an environment that allows students to safely practice making clinical judgments.

Products that are designed to observe how students are processing information and demonstrating clinical judgment when making patient care decisions:

Assess & Review

HESI assessments are backed by more than 20 years of research that point to the proven validity of our exams. Our experts are focused on aligning with NCSBN to create items delivered in the same valid, reliable, and secure manner you have relied upon for ensuring students are ready for the NCLEX.

Products that were created evaluate how well students are understanding key concepts and using their clinical judgment skills: