Elsevier / MC Strategies Online Courses Named i...

ATLANTA, Georgia, June 10 /PRNewswire/ --

- Excellence and Distinction Winners Announced

    Elsevier / MC Strategies, a pioneer in providing e-learning
solutions to over 1,300 healthcare organizations nationwide is proud to
announce that five Clinical e-Learning courses were named as winners in the
2009 Communicator Awards (http://www.communicatorawards.com/) presented by
the International Academy of the Visual Arts (IAVA). With thousands of
entries received from across the US and around the world, the Communicator
Awards is the largest and most competitive awards program honoring the
creative excellence for communications professionals.



    Entered into this year's competition and winning the gold Awards of
Excellence in Interactive Media in the area of corporate training were
ReadyRN: Disaster Nursing and Emergency Preparedness, Mosby's Neonatal
Nursing, and Mosby's Perioperative Nursing. Also entered into this year's
competition and winning the silver Awards of Distinction in Interactive Media
in the area of corporate training were Mosby's Essential Nursing CE and the
Emergency Nurses Association: Emergency Nursing Orientation online course.



    "We are truly honored to have been named among the winners in this year's
Communicator Awards competition," said Barbara Nelson Cullen, Vice President
of Healthcare e-Learning for Elsevier / MC Strategies. "Winning these awards
reflects our continued commitment to excellence in healthcare e-Learning and
the mission and values of Elsevier."



    The Communicator Awards are judged and overseen by the International
Academy of the Visual Arts (IAVA), an organization made up of more than 450
leading professionals from various disciplines of the visual arts dedicated
to embracing progress and the evolving nature of traditional and interactive
media.



    "The quality, creativity and execution of this year's work is a true
testament to the talents and abilities of communications professionals from
around the world. The entries received reflect an increasingly diversified
industry and the work once again sets the bar extremely high," noted Linda
Day, director of the IAVA. She added, "On behalf of the entire Academy, we
are honored to have once again judged the 15th Annual Communicator Awards and
we are proud to honor the outstanding communications professionals who
continue to push a high standard of excellence."



About Elsevier / MC Strategies

    Headquartered in Atlanta, GA, Elsevier / MC Strategies has been providing
web-based training and education products and services to the healthcare
industry since 1986. The company is a pioneer in providing e-learning
solutions and serves a client base of over 1,300 healthcare organizations
nationwide, including integrated health-delivery networks, hospitals,
academic institutions and the federal government. We offer a wide range of
courses to help nurses meet their clinical and professional education needs
and as part of Elsevier Health Sciences, home to some of the world's premier
names in healthcare publishing such as Mosby and Saunders, our library
continues to grow. For more information, please visit the Elsevier / MC
Strategies website (http://www.mcstrategies.com).



About Elsevier

    Elsevier is a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and
medical information products and services. Working in partnership with the
global science and health communities, Elsevier's 7,000 employees in over 70
offices worldwide publish more than 2,000 journals and 1,900 new books per
year, in addition to offering a suite of innovative electronic products, such
as ScienceDirect (http://www.sciencedirect.com/), MD Consult (
http://www.mdconsult.com/), Scopus (http://www.info.scopus.com/),
bibliographic databases, and online reference works.



    Elsevier (http://www.elsevier.com/) is a global business headquartered in
Amsterdam, The Netherlands and has offices worldwide. Elsevier is part of
Reed Elsevier Group plc (http://www.reedelsevier.com/), a world-leading
publisher and information provider. Operating in the science and medical,
legal, education and business-to-business sectors, Reed Elsevier provides
high-quality and flexible information solutions to users, with increasing
emphasis on the Internet as a means of delivery. Reed Elsevier's ticker
symbols are REN (Euronext Amsterdam), REL (London Stock Exchange), RUK and
ENL (New York Stock Exchange).



About The Communicator Awards:

    The Communicator Awards is the leading international awards program
honoring creative excellence for communications professionals. Founded by
communication professionals over a decade ago, The Communicator Awards is an
annual competition honoring the best in advertising, corporate
communications, public relations and identity work for print, video,
interactive and audio. This year's Communicator Awards received thousands of
entries from companies and agencies of all sizes, making it one of the
largest awards of its kind in the world. Please visit
http://www.communicatorawards.com for more information.



    The Communicator Awards is sanctioned and judged by the International
Academy of the Visual Arts, an invitation-only body consisting of top-tier
professionals from a "Who's Who" of acclaimed media, advertising, and
marketing firms. Please visit http://www.iavisarts.org for a full member list
and more information.



    Please visit http://www.communicatorawards.com to view the full winners
list.


    
    Contacts:
    Name: David Minett
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