Microsoft, Redfox and Elsevier to launch e-Learning solution for Nurses

Manila, Philipines – On Mother's Day (May 8) Microsoft, Redfox and Elsevier will introduce the iCitizen Nursing Skills Netbook, an integrated and affordable e-learning netbook for nurses and nursing students in the country.

“The iCitizen Nursing Skills Netbook demonstrates the seamless integration of a netbook, software and specialized content. This project will support the overall government’s drive to provide world class healthcare providers and remain one of the world’s leading countries in this growing segment,” explained Pascal van den Nieuwendijk, Director Public and Private Partnerships for Microsoft in Asia.

The iCitizen Nursing Skills Netbook is powered by Redfox, Microsoft (Windows 7, Microsoft Office 2010 and Microsoft Live@Edu) and Elsevier’s Mosby Nursing Skills, which provide instant messaging, online storage, data collaboration and information sharing capabilities to keep nurses and nursing students’ up-to-date in critical care skills and patient care procedures.

John Macasio, General Manager of Redfox Technologies Philippines Incorporated, said that ICT is now an integral part of nursing training and education. "The iCitizen Nursing Skills Netbook brings the learning experience and nursing practice in the ICT environment through the appropriate bundling of solution for knowledge acquisition, creation, sharing, etc."

Elsevier also expressed its pride in being part of what the company calls an “exciting project that enables us to support the nursing community in The Philippines by providing them with interactive nursing learning tools,” said Robert Gorter, Sales & Marketing Director for Elsevier Health Sciences APAC.