Nursing Specialties LibGuide

This Nursing Specialties LibGuide compliments The Nursing Point-of-Care tool, and goes beyond general nursing, pulling together links and resources for the different Nursing Specialty focus areas, such as :

• Cancer Nursing
• Emergency Room Nursing
• Infusion Nursing
•  Maternal Newborn Nursing / OB
• NICU Nursing
• Pain Management Nursing
• Pediatric Nursing
• Perianesthesia Nursing
• Perioperative Nursing

 Other nursing areas of focus are currently in development, including Midwifery, Nursing Admin, Orthopaedic Nursing, Psychiatric Nursing, and Wound Care.  

Resources in each nursing specialty may include:

• relevant professional organizations
• eJournals
• eBooks
• handy links to relevant databases like Cinahl, Lexicomp, or PubMed
• and useful websites.    

We hope these will be handy resources at your fingertips wherever you are around Ascension Wisconsin, when you need this type of focused info in patient care or when you need to update policies.

We are open to suggestions for additional specialty focus areas, or links and resources.  

Would you like to be a Subject Matter Expert for your specialty?

Questions or Comments?   Feel free to contact Your Ascension Wisconsin Librarians:

               Michele Matucheski    Elissa Kinzelman-Vesely    Kellee Selden

Clinical Key Quick Tips

Did you know there are additional Quick Tips to help you use Clinical Key?  

Topics cover:

                Scoped Search (pdf)

                Using Filters (pdf)

                Presentation Maker (pdf)

Additionally, short training videos cover the following topics (Use IE for best results):

How to Search in Clinical Key - Overview (2:44 min.)

How to View Topic Pages (1:21 min.)

Using Filters (1:10 min.)   

How to Use Presentation Maker (1:10 min.)

Other Helpful Links:

Clinical Key (direct link)

Setting up a Clinical Key Personal Account with Remote Access [Pdf tutorial]

Get the CK Mobile App [Instructions].

Clinical Key Quick Reference Card (pdf)

Clinical Key Search Tips Page (Ascension Wisconsin Library Services)

Questions or Comments?   Feel free to contact Your Ascension Wisconsin Librarians:

Michele Matucheski    Elissa Kinzelman-Vesely    Kellee Selden

Patient Education in Other Languages via Clinical Key

In Clinical Key Patient Education, click on the Available Languages Tab on the left side [See above in red].

• In this case, there are currently 9,262 patient handouts in Spanish and 495 handouts in Polish via Clinical Key, with other languages also available.
• Alternatively, if you search for handouts on a particular topic, available languages will be listed below each handout, with English and Spanish being the most widely available.
• Not every Clinical Key Patient Handout is available in other languages, but the list is growing. 
• For Nursing, Clinical Key Patient Education can be a handy backup when first-line patient education sources are not sufficient.

Other Helpful Links:

Clinical Key (direct link)

Setting up a Clinical Key Personal Account with Remote Access [Pdf tutorial]

Get the CK Mobile App [Instructions].

Clinical Key Quick Reference Card (pdf)

Clinical Key Search Tips Page (Ascension Wisconsin Library Services)

Questions or Comments?   Feel free to contact Your Ascension Wisconsin Librarians:

               Michele Matucheski    Elissa Kinzelman-Vesely    Kellee Selden

Nurses Choice Recommended Reading - May 2018

May 2018

Prevention of Pressure Injuries in the Operating Room: A Quality Improvement Project
Journal of Wound Ostomy & Continence Nursing, March/April 2018

Preventing wrong site, wrong procedure, wrong patient errors
Nursing Made Incredibly Easy!, May/June 2018

Physician and Nurse Perceptions of Gentle Cesarean Birth
MCN, The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing, March/April 2018

Smartphone Use by Nurses in Acute Care Settings
CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing, March 2018

A Tool to Identify Key Behaviors and Attributes of High-Performing Nurses
JONA: Journal of Nursing Administration, April 2018

“Keep Calm and Stop the Clot”
Nursing Management, April 2018

Identification and Management of Acute Cardiac Tamponade
Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing, May/June 2018

Screening women for intimate partner violence: Creating proper practice habits
Nurse Practitioner, May 17, 2018

Hepatitis A infection: On alert for outbreaks
Nursing, April 2018

Sexual Harassment in Nursing: A Long-Standing, but Rarely Studied Problem
AJN, American Journal of Nursing, May 2018

* List and links courtesy of Anne Chaney at Wolters-Kluwer/Ovid.

* Questions about access, contact Your Ascension Wisconsin Librarians : 

Michele Matucheski        Elissa Kinzelman-Vesely      Kellee Selden