Nurses Choice Recommended Reading - October 2017

October, 2017

The Relationship Between Professional Quality of Life and Caring Ability in Critical Care Nurses
Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing, September/October 2017

Bolstering your armamentarium with SGLT2 inhibitors
The Nurse Practitioner, October 2017

Ripple effect: Shared governance and nurse engagement
Nursing Management, October 2017

Addressing Occupational Fatigue in Nurses: Current State of Fatigue Risk Management in Hospitals, Part 2
Journal of Nursing Administration, October 2017

Caregiving and Caregivers: An Important Part of the Healthcare Team
Home Healthcare Now, September 2017

CMS MDS 3.0 Section M Skin Conditions in Long-term Care: Pressure Ulcers, Skin Tears, and Moisture-Associated Skin Damage Data Update
Advances in Skin & Wound Care, September 2017

Process and Outcome of Fecal Microbiota Transplants in Patients With Recurrent Clostridium difficile Infection: A Prospective Study
Gastroenterology Nursing, September/October 2017

Palliative Sedation: When Suffering Is Intractable at End of Life
Journal of Hospice & Palliative Nursing, October 2017

Assessing Patients During Septic Shock Resuscitation
AJN, American Journal of Nursing, October 2017

Quality of Electronic Nursing Records: The Impact of Educational Interventions During a Hospital Accreditation Process
CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing, Publish ahead of print


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

* Questions about access, contact Your Ascension Wisconsin Librarians : 

Michele Matucheski        Mary Pat Gage         Elissa Kinzelman-Vesely      Kellee Selden

New PubMed Interactive Tutorials Available

New PubMed Interactive Tutorials Available. NLM Tech Bull. 2017 Sep-Oct;(418):b2.

Eleven new or revised interactive tutorials on using PubMed are now available from the PubMed Online Training page. These tutorials were conceived and developed by the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NNLM) PubMed Working Group and produced by the Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) Health Communication and Technical Training Group.

The tutorials are available to use on the Web and also freely available in SCORM format for download and incorporation into learning management systems.

The tutorials are:

• PubMed Simple Subject Search
• PubMed Simple Subject Search: How It Works
• PubMed: Exploding the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) (new)
• PubMed: Find Articles by Author
• PubMed: Find Articles by Journal
• PubMed: Find a Known Citation (new)
• PubMed: Find a Systematic Review (new)
• PubMed: Find the Latest Treatments for a Disease (new)
• Create a Collection
• Obtain the Full Text of an Article
• Save a PubMed Search and Set E-mail Alerts

Please send your comments and suggestions to the NLM Training Team using our Customer Support portal.

Content reprinted from The NLM Technical Bulletin who encourages us to spread the word about their programs and resources.  Original post appeared here on 1 Sept 2017.

Nurses Choice Recommended Reading - August 2017

September, 2017

Hospice-Appropriate Universal Precautions for Opioid Safety
Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing, June 2017

The “As-If” World of Nursing Practice: Nurses, Marketing, and Decision Making
Advances in Nursing Science, April/June 2017

Heart Failure: Self-care to Success: Development and evaluation of a program toolkit
The Nurse Practitioner, August 2017

Nurse communication's effect on CMS Star Ratings
Nursing Management, August 2017

Establishing a Classification System for High Fall-Risk Among Inpatients Using Support Vector Machines
CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing, August 2017

Decreasing Falls in Acute Care Medical Patients: An Integrative Review
Journal of Nursing Care Quality, October/December 2017

Evidence-based approaches to breaking down language barriers
Nursing, September 2017

Can Your Older Patients Drive Safely?
AJN The American Journal of Nursing, September 2017

CMS MDS 3.0 Section M Skin Conditions in Long-term Care: Pressure Ulcers, Skin Tears, and Moisture-Associated Skin Damage Data Update
Advances in Skin & Wound Care, September 2017

Choice of Fluids for Resuscitation of the Critically Ill: What Nurses Need to Know
Critical Care Nursing Quarterly, October/December 2017 

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

* Questions about access, contact Your Ascension Wisconsin Librarians : 

Michele Matucheski        Mary Pat Gage         Elissa Kinzelman-Vesely      Kellee Selden

Emailed Table-of-Contents Service (eTOCs)

Guest Post by Elissa Kinzelman-Vesely, Ascension WI Librarian

What, you ask, are eTOCs?  It is the Ascension Wisconsin Libraries’ Emailed Table of Contents Service.  As hospital librarians, we understand that you’re busy with patient care; keeping up with the current literature in your field is difficult, time consuming, and possibly expensive.  We’ve developed a way of delivering table of contents from your favorite professional journals to your email box.  eTOCs are free, easy, and convenient!

1.  Look for eTOC sign-up sheets at the Ascension Wisconsin Libraries LibGuides.  
2. Select either the Clin eTOC, Med eTOC, or Lead eTOC form.
3. Review the journal titles available for eTOC service.
4. Select the journal titles for which you’d like to receive current table of contents.  Mark your selections on the form.
5. Return the form to your Ascension Wisconsin Librarian in person, via email, or by fax.
6. As new issues of the journals you selected are released, you will receive a link to the table of contents in your Ascension email box.
7. Click on the link to view the full table of contents, and click on the articles you would like to read.

Comments, questions, requests or suggestions, please contact your favorite Ascension Wisconsin Librarian :

Michele Matucheski        Mary Pat Gage         Elissa Kinzelman-Vesely      Kellee Selden

Medical TerminologyTextbooks and Free Online Classes

Looking for a FREE online class to brush up on your medical terminology skills? 

Try one of the following  courses from reputable institutions :

Introduction to Medical Terminology - Absolutely Free Courses 

"Our free Introduction To Medical Terminology course is entirely online. This course will help you understand Medical Terminology by explaining how to break down medical terms. Extensive coverage of medical prefixes, suffixes, and root words. We then cover basic human anatomy and physiology in chapters on the human body, the skeletal system and the nervous system. 

This course includes invaluable resource materials such as printable lists of prefixes, suffixes, root words, and bones in the human body."

How to Learn Medical Terminology Online for Free  
This article lists a number of free online medical terminology courses from respectable institutions such as :

• Des Moines Univeristy

• The National Library of Medicine

• The National Cancer Institute 

Additionally, the following PRINT books on Medical Terminology are available at the MMC Library :

If you are interested in checking any of these out, please contact Your Librarian, Michele Matucheski via Outlook.  If you are an Ascension Wisconsin Associate, I'll send them anywhere within legacy Affinity or Ministry Health Care regions.  

Questions or comments, contact

Your Librarian,

Michele Matucheski, MLS, AHIP - via Outlook or 920-223-0340

Online Medical Dictionaries

Looking for a reliable online medical dictionary?  We have several available through Ascension Wisconsin – Ministry/Affinity Library Services. 

Dorland’s Dictionary of Medical Acronyms & Abbreviations (via Clinical Key)

/ c2016     Affinity / Ministry Access provided by Library subscription. 

Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary (via Nursing Reference Center)

Affinity / Ministry Access provided by Library subscription.

        

There are also links through the E-Books Tab of our A-Z List and through our Library Catalog -- Look for the online versions with live links.

If you are looking for reliable medical dictionaries that are freely available on the web, we also recommend the following :

The Free Medical Dictionary - by Farlex

Medical Dictionary – MedlinePlus

Merriam-Webster’s Medical Dictionary

Medical Terminology : Prefixes, Roots, Suffixes - Global RPh

MediLexicon Medical Dictionary

 Do you have a favorite online medical dictionary?  Leave a comment below …

Other comments, questions or suggestions, please contact Your Librarian,

Michele Matucheski  at 920-223-0340 or via Outlook.

Nursing Reference Center (NRC) Contract Will Expire Dec 31, 2017 : NEW Nursing Point of Care Tool to be Chosen for Ascension Wisconsin

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.

o   See the NRC Search Tips page for more information, including remote access and tutorials.

·         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  

LexiComp Clinical Drug Reference

Lexicomp is our Ascension-wide clinical drug reference look-up tool. LexiComp is most often used by Pharmacy Associates, Physicians & Providers, Clinicians and Nursing. A link to Lexicomp has already been added to the Source Intranet and Library pages.

LexiComp offers:

·         Full access to the LexiComp clinical drug reference tool, patient education, calculators and toxicology information

·         Orientation/training videos and quick reference guide

·         A link to install the LexiComp mobile app

Lexicomp was chosen as the Ascension national standard after a thorough selection process by The Resource Group Pharmacy Team and Ascension Information Systems. Lexicomp was selected based on its ease of use, accessibility, cost, and concise information. It also supports our goals of offering high-quality care, better patient and provider experiences, and lower overall cost of care.

Ministry Library Services has put together a Lexicomp Search Tips page to help our Staff and Providers learn to use Lexicomp quickly and efficiently.  

The LexiComp Mobile App is also available.  

What to do when patients don't heed your advice ...

What to do when patients don't heed your advice - Medscape
by Gregory A. Hood, MD

Recently, I came across the above 2-page article on Medscape, and thought it might ring true for some of you, too--or maybe that's just my own confirmation bias?   The author does a good job of explaining the current environment that we live in in terms of the internet and conformation bias where Google searches are replacing wisdom.  They also address the sticky issue of  no one liking to be told they are wrong, even when facts and evidence prove otherwise.  

Finally, it offers a list of suggestions for how to handle patients who ignore you're best professional advice.   Kind of a Serenity Prayer for practice.   I hope it offers something to make your work life better.  

If you don't already have your own personal account for Medscape, sign up.  Registration is FREE!     

If you'd rather just read the article, use the Library's generic Medscape login : affinity1
pw = library

Questions and comments welcome!

Your Librarian,
Michele Matucheski, MLS, AHIP

Hospital Libraries Matter

This blog post was listed on The Director’s Blog from The National Library of Medicine this week.  I wanted to share it with our Library Supporters because it helps explain why Hospital Libraries are still relevant and needed in a world where people have the misguided perception that everything is free on Google …  

This article also helps explain what Medical Librarians do every day--in case you were wondering. 

  

Hospital Libraries Matter : Libraries Impact Clinical Decision-Making and Support hospital Functions

by Basia Delawska-Elliott and Donna Belcinsk

Questions and comments welcome!

Feel free to contact your favorite Ascension Wisconsin Librarian :  

Michele Matucheski        Mary Pat Gage         Elissa Kinzelman-Vesely      Kellee Selden