WALTHAM, Mass.– Wolters Kluwer Health has introduced the next generation of its Lippincott DocuCare academic electronic health record (EHR) platform, designed to help nursing students gain real-world digital fluency, critical thinking skills, and practice readiness. The reimagined simulated EHR delivers an intuitive, true-to-life experience modeled after professional EHR systems used in hospitals and clinics nationwide.
Fully integrated within the Lippincott learning suite, DocuCare bridges classroom and clinical instruction, allowing students to apply concepts across the nursing curriculum. “The transition from education to patient care continues to be a big hurdle for new nurses entering the workforce and the health systems that hire them,” said Julie Stegman, Vice President, Wolters Kluwer Health Learning & Practice. “Having clinical-like application tools available to nursing students helps build their clinical judgment and reflect a more true-to-practice experience. The essential goal of documentation is safe, effective patient care delivery and clinician-patient communication. Students who use DocuCare gain exposure to these skills during their education, making them more practice-ready and more attractive to employers.”
Aligned with the standards of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) and the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN), DocuCare supports accreditation and competency-based education. The updated platform integrates seamlessly with other Lippincott tools, offering unified course management, a single gradebook, and over 400 customizable patient records for use in simulations and team teaching.
“Having an academic EHR simulator across our curriculum is absolutely essential training for future nurses,” said Kandi Hudson, Ed.D./CI, MSN, CMSRN, CNE, of the Community College of Baltimore. “It allows faculty to give students real, actionable feedback on their documentation while sharpening their clinical judgment. Charting is patient care, so it is imperative for students to understand that every detail they document impacts outcomes and protects both the patient and their own careers.”
DocuCare also gives students exposure to real-world medication adherence and procedure protocols. With medication and procedure information updated regularly and approved by medical-regulatory authorities, nursing students are guided toward informed, safe decision-making.
By combining life-like patient scenarios with data-driven learning, Wolters Kluwer’s enhanced DocuCare helps prepare students for the realities of patient care while supporting educators with flexible, integrated tools that align with the latest nursing education standards.
