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About the Neighborhood

The Neighborhood is an online program that allows students to easily connect the concepts they learn to the clinical setting, through virtual patient experience in a safe environment. Presenting unfolding stories in a serialized format about a virtual community, episodes include videos, photos, medical records and text to highlight the circumstances that surround and affect the health of the community members. Like a TV show, your students "tune in" to The Neighborhood, starting in their first semester, and immerse themselves in stories told from the perspective of both patients and nurses. With the assistance of The Neighborhood's Faculty Navigation Guide and more than 700 pre-built activities and assignments embedded in the Faculty access to The Neighborhood, you can easily integrate appropriate storylines into your lecture or lab, lessening the gap between theoretical learning and clinical application. Students continue to follow The Neighborhood storylines throughout each course in your program – providing a consistent, longitudinal case study filled with engaging characters and scenarios.

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Jean Giddens

Jean Giddens, PhD, RN is Professor and Interim Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the College of Nursing, Health Sciences Center, University of New Mexico. A nurse educator for over 25 years, she is considered an expert in curriculum, conceptual learning, educational research, and innovative teaching strategies. She has authored and contributed to several nursing textbooks and media products, and written over 20 peer-reviewed journal articles. Additionally, Dr. Giddens has extensive experience as a nursing education consultant and has presented her work at multiple national and international meetings. She initially developed The Neighborhood for students at the UNM nursing program.

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Neighborhood Demo!

View selected weeks from The Neighborhood. The demonstration includes several character stories from Level 1 of The Neighborhood. Four out of the eleven community households are featured in the demo The Allens, the Martins, the Ocampos and the Rileys. Refer to the table below to see how the story lines presented (2 weeks of stories/episodes for these four families), relate to topics you teach in your classes. Also, ask your Pearson Representative to see The Neighborhood Faculty Navigation Guide to view a listing of applicable storylines for each course in your program, synopses of character storylines, and how characters are interrelated.

In the full product, there are 15 weekly episodes in each of 3 seasons/levels. The seasons correspond to the semesters or terms in your program. There is a 4th level/season which is access to all of the episodes. A student goes online at any time during a particular week to view that weekly episode. They are able to see past episodes, but not future ones. Instructors then refer back to the storylines that students have seen to teach topics in their classes.

Your school would use The Neighborhood first with your incoming first semester students. Then in your next term, those students would migrate to season/level 2, and new students would start in level 1. And so on.

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What you will see in the demo:

Family	Character	Concepts and Problems
Allen	Clifford Allen	Elimination, family dynamics, BPH, depression, substance abuse
	Pam Allen	Elimination, nausea, vomiting
	Gary Allen	Developmental delay, cognitive impairment, family dynamics, interpersonal relationships, anxiety
Martin	Gil Martin	Pain, chronic back pain, family in crisis
	Helen Martin	Nausea, nutrition, pain, cholelithiasis, obesity, menopause, family in crisis, anxiety
	Anthony Martin	Family in crisis, schizophrenia
	Kristina Martin	Nutrition, family in crisis, eating disorder
	Tracie Ames	Family in crisis
	Mark Martin	Mobility, family in crisis, substance abuse
	Tyler Martin	Family in crisis
	Mary Martin	Sensory-perceptual, osteoporosis, cataracts, glaucoma, family in crisis, health promotion
Ocampo	Danilo Ocampo	Self care, sleep, heart failure, hypertension, power of attorney
	Lydia Ocampo	Safety, self care, dementia
Riley	Jessica Riley	Sleep, unplanned teen pregnancy, prenatal care, domestic violence, social services
	Ryan Riley	Infection, nutrition, oxygenation, upper respiratory infection, domestic violence, financial stress
	Casey Holmes	Domestic violence, substance abuse

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Free Preview Access

Instructors can enjoy free preview access to The Neighborhood - check out the whole program and find out what everyone is talking about!

Request Preview  Preview Log-in  Tell Us What You Think

Here's how:

1. Select the "Request Preview" button, and you will receive a username and passcode via email for 30-days of free access, plus a link to the Faculty Navigation guide
2. Come back here and read the Tips below
3. Select the "Preview Log-in" button
4. Use the username and passcode you received via email to login
5. Click on "Go to Class"
6. Select: A Season 3 30-Day Trial Neighborhood Instructor 30 Day Trial
7. You now have access to the program. You can log back in with your username and passcode at any time during the 30 days after your first login

√	TIP: If this is your first introduction to The Neighborhood, we strongly recommend that you first view the recorded webcasts.

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Recorded Web & AudioCasts

View and listen to recorded web and audiocasts at your convenience and on-demand.

Webcast: Introduction to The Neighborhood

• Streaming Version
• Downloadable Version

Webcast: User Case Studies–Course Integration of The Neighborhood

• Streaming Version
• Downloadable Version

Audiocast: Interview with Author Jean Giddens

• Digital Media Player version (Real Player or Windows Media Player)

• Phone playback version:

• Dial 888-899-7904
• At the prompt, enter Playback ID 097438086# and the playback will begin. The following keypad commands are available during playback:

• Press 3 for fast forward 30 seconds
• Press 7 to rewind 30 seconds
• Press # to Pause/Resume playback

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