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Description Nursing Skills Online features 18 modules which include 4 to 8 lessons each, enhanced by 900 interactive activities, 130 video clips, 95 animations and slide shows, 1100 images, 855 assessment items, and 1020 glossary terms. The structured pacing moves students strategically through chunks of information which they then apply to critical thinking tasks or case studies. Lesson quizzes allow students to evaluate their mastery of the content, and module exams feed out to a course grade book allowing instructors to evaluate student progress. For this versioning, Nursing Skills Online, v 3.0 will be packaged with Potter, Perry, Stockert, and Hall: Fundamentals of Nursing, 9/e with customized reading assignments that coordinate it to the text. The 18 modules will be organized to follow the text order as well. Rationale Nursing Skills Online, which focuses on 66 skills that are labor-intensive to teach and pose considerable risk to patient safety, has proven its effectiveness. Student feedback from hundreds of students indicates they value the time spent working with the course and credit NSO with improving their grades. NSO completes the suite of clinical skills educational materials by providing the element that develops the critical thinking skills of student nurses. While the video series focuses on the correct "how" of clinical skill performance, the chunked content interspersed with interactive exercises develops the ability of students to analyze a situation and respond with the most effective clinical care (the "why" of clinical care). Feedback from instructors has been incredibly positive, with many praising NSO as "exactly what we've needed". Although we can't quantify the effect on adoptions, numerous marketing reports have cited NSO as an important factor in holding business as well as gaining new adoptions. Sales of Nursing Skills Online for Fundamen