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Lippincott Procedures (LP)

Clinical Specialties

Medical Surgical Critical Care Emergency Maternal-Neonatal Pediatrics Behavioral Health Perioperative

General Critical Care Emergency Maternal-Neonatal Pediatric (extra) Perioperative (extra) Mental Health Oncology

Here LP outshines Mosby’s by offering a full selection of procedures in all the specialty areas needed to practice in a hospital setting.

Number of Procedures

1400+

1054 if you include the optional pediatric and perioperative procedures. Pediatric skills and perioperative skills are an additional charge. Mosby’s Nursing Skills updates are typically tied to the book updates.

Lippincott's Procedures continues to extend its procedure offerings and is now the only resource to offer a full series of behavioral health procedures and fuller perioperative content. Mosby’s content is primarily tied to book updates and so brings into question how often they are reviewed against current standards and evidence. All LP procedures have the evidence- based references cited at the end of the procedure. Mosby’s is typically tied to the books and likely are citing the references that are associated with the book update. Pediatric content in particular has not been updated in a while in Mosby.

Evidence Based

All LP procedures have the evidence-based references cited at the end of the procedure and have in-text citations linking the particular steps to their reference. We have begun ranking evidence- based references using Melnyk’s Rating System for the Hierarchy of Evidence.

Currency

All procedures in LP are reviewed at least annually but may be updated more frequently as warranted.

They claim all skills are reviewed at least every two years, and more frequently if new standards require it. All skills will be reviewed in conjunction with the new editions of the source text books.

We update annually. Mosby’s only every 2 years.

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