Ascension Ministry
Health Care’s current subscription for
Nursing Reference Center (NRC) will expire on December 31, 2017.
Why are we
dropping the subscription to NRC?
·
Since 2014, Nursing Reference Center (NRC) has
been a very popular and well-used point-of-care tool for our nurses. At present, NRC is only available for legacy
Ministry and Affinity regions. The Milwaukee
and Racine areas do not currently have access to this or any similar reference
package.
·
It is cost-prohibitive to add the Metro (Milwaukee)
and South hospital sites under the current Ascension Resource Group pricing
model.
·
Nursing leaders at Ascension Wisconsin and
national Ascension are in the process of evaluating the nursing point-of-care
tools currently available on the market.
These include NRC, Lippincott and Clinical Key for Nursing (Elsevier).
·
We hope to choose a NEW nursing point-of-care
tool that will be available statewide throughout Ascension Wisconsin, thereby
helping to standardize nursing care resources and contributing to high
reliability nursing care.
What you need to
do in preparation :
·
Use NRC while we have access! Get the most out of it while it is still
available.
·
Be aware that links to NRC documents and
competencies will NOT be available
after December 31, 2017. This change may
impact policies and other internal documents.
·
CEUs
o If
you have CEUs logged in Cinahl Education (CEUs through NRC), be sure to log in
and print out your records and documentation, as we may not have access to this
information after the Ministry Health Care Subscription to NRC expires.
While legacy Ministry / Affinity may be losing access to
NRC in the short-term, we have full intentions of providing a nursing
point-of-care tool for ALL of Ascension Wisconsin in the very near future. Please be patient as we make this transition.
For questions or comments, please contact :
Jill Berg, PhD, RN, FAHA, FAAN,
Vice President of Clinical Education for Ascension Wisconsin
Michele Matucheski, MLS, AHIP – Librarian for Ascension Wisconsin
Kellee Selden, MLIS – Manager of
Learning and Knowledge Management for Ascension
Wisconsin
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