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Shadow Health®

Strengthen practice readiness through Digital Clinical Experiences™ featuring realistic, conversation-driven virtual patient encounters.

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Shadow Health is for:

Nursing Students

Allow your students to practice the skills needed to develop clinical judgment and clinical reasoning, empowering them to improve patient outcomes when they enter clinical practice.

Nurses

Give your novice nurses a safe, realistic learning environment to sharpen their clinical reasoning and therapeutic communication skills as they transition to practice.

Benefits of Shadow Health:

Shadow Health’s extensive suite of healthcare simulation products for nursing provides an effective and scalable path to experiential and patient-centered learning. With Shadow Health, you can:

  • Empower learners to hone their skills in a safe, simulated clinical environment

  • Provide guaranteed exposure to realistic patients and conditions

  • Develop therapeutic communication skills with a diversity of patients

  • Prepare learners to improve patient outcomes in practice

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Explore Shadow Health

Shadow Health digital standardized patients

Digital Standardized Patients™

Diverse in demographics and medical conditions
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Natural Language Conversation Engine

Learners engage with patients using their own words
3D illustration of throat inspection

Patient Exam Activities

Learners gather assessment data and make care decisions
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Student Performance Index™

Immediate measurements of clinical reasoning abilities