Nursing Reference Center - Home and Mobile Access

We’ve created a FrequentlyAsked Questions (FAQ) document  to answer some of the most common questions about Nursing Reference Center (NRC) at Ministry Health Care. 

See below for an expanded answer on home and mobile access to NRC :

1) Can I access NRC on my home computer or iPad?

>  Yes, NRC can be accessed from home for personal use* 

       Check the following pdf document  for access info.

   

*Note:  If used for work-related purposes outside of the associate’s scheduled working hours, prior approval is expected from the department leader before work is performed.  If the request is approved, the associate is responsible for accurately entering their worked time to the time and attendance system.  

Can I access NRC from my iPhone/iPod Touch? 

>  Yes, you can download a slimmed-down version of NRC for Apple mobile devices. 

       Be aware that the mobile version is not the full database.

>   How do I get the NRC Mobile app?

From any Ministry computer connected to our Intranet, access the NRC homepage

(ie : The Source > Links & Resources > Nursing Reference Center). 

Scroll down to the bottom of the page:

                                                                           

Click on the NRC iPhone/iPod Touch Application link.

Enter an email that you’ll be able to access on your iPhone or iPod Touch.

After you submit, it will send you an email with instructions to download the iTunes App along with an access key.  Follow the instructions …

To access on an iPad, you don’t need the mobile App.  You can sign in and have full access to the entire NRC database.    Use the instructions for accessing NRC on a home computer.  

Ministry's Nursing Reference Center FAQ : Your Questions Answered

We’ve created a FrequentlyAsked Questions (FAQ) document  to answer some of the most common questions about Nursing Reference Center (NRC) at Ministry Health Care. 

Find answers to the following :

• What is NRC?
• Where do I find NRC?
•  How can NRC help me?
• Can I use the CEs to maintain my specialty certification?
•  Can I access NRC from my personal devices at home?
• Does the Skill & Procedures Tab replace Ministry’s current Policies & Procedures?
• Does the Drug Information Tab replace Clinical Pharmacology?
•  Does the Patient Education Tab replace LogiCare/ExitCare?
•  If I have questions about NRC, who do I ask?

AHRQ's Hospital Guide to Reducing Medicaid Readmissions

Some hospital administration, quality improvement or nursing staff may find this of interest :

Hospital Guide toReducing Medicaid Readmissions (August 2014) 

Reducing readmissions is a national priority for payers, providers, and policymakers seeking to improve health care and lower costs. Readmissions are a significant issue among patients with Medicaid. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) commissioned this guide to identify ways evidence-based strategies to reduce readmissions can be adapted or expanded to better address the transitional care needs of the adult Medicaid population.

Contents :

 Acknowledgments

About the Principal Investigators

Introduction

Why Focus on Medicaid Readmissions?

How To Use This Guide

Overview of Guide Content

Roadmap of Tools

Section 1: Know Your Data

Section 2: Inventory Readmission Reduction Efforts Section 3: Develop a Portfolio of Strategies Section 4: Improve Hospital-Based Transitional Care Processes for Medicaid Patients Section 5: Collaborate With Cross-Setting Partners Section 6: Provide Enhanced Services for High-Risk Patients References

Tools :

Introduction to the Tools

Tool 1: Data Analysis Tool

Tool 2: Readmission Review Tool

Tool 3: Data Analysis Synthesis Tool

Tool 4: Hospital Inventory Tool

Tool 5: Cross-Continuum Team Inventory Tool Tool 6: Conditions of Participation Checklist Tool Tool 7: Portfolio Design Tool Tool 8: Readmission Reduction Impact and Financial Analysis Tool Tool 9: Readmission Risk Tool Tool 10: Whole-Person Assessment Tool Tool 11: Discharge Information Checklist Tool 12: Cross-Continuum Team How To Tool Tool 13: Community Resource Guide Tool

Prepared for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality under Contract No. HHSA290201000034I.

Introducing Nursing Reference Center

Nursing Reference Center (NRC) is a new intuitive and easy-to-use point-of-care reference  tool for our Nurses.

NRC offers  :

·         Nursing Skills & Procedures

·         Quick Lessons  (2-pg summaries on diseases and conditions)

·         Evidence-Based Care sheets

·         Drug Info with Nursing Implications

·         Patient Education to supplement LogiCare/ExitCare

·         And much more …

If you missed the live demos for Nursing Reference Center, it’s not too late!

Watch the Web Video Tour  (11 min)

Watch the in-depth WebEx recording  (30 min) by the official NRC Trainer, Kathy Jensen.    There is a short registration form to view the WebEx.

NRC Take-Away Guide (Handout)

Where can you find Nursing Reference Center?

            The Source > Links & Resources > In the search box, type in “nu”                                                                            > Click on Nursing Reference Center

It’s also linked within many of the EMRs such as Meditech, Centricity, and MedHost.

Questions or comments, contact Your Librarians :

Deb Knippel   or   Michele Matucheski

3 New eBooks - Neonatology and PeriAnesthesia Nursing

We have 3 new eBooks available to all Ministry Associates through The Library Without Walls :

Atlas of Procedures in Neonatology - Mhairi G. MacDonald (Editor)

Publication Date: 2012    via R2 Library

 

Manual of Neonatal Care - Cloherty; John P. et al.

Publication Date: 2012   via R2 Library

PeriAnesthesia Nursing Care - Daphne Stannard; Dina A. Krenzischek

ISBN: 9780763769987  via StatRef

Publication Date: 2011

Use the links above to access these eBooks now.

You can access these and our other 200+ eBooks in our Ministry Libraries Catalog and our eBookshelf QuickBase Application. 

Select eBooks are also available on our subject-specific LibGuides like Nursing Standards.

Most of our eBooks can also be found in our A-Z List under the eBooks Tab. 

Because we purchased online access to these eBooks, staff should be able to get through to the full-text as long as you are using an Affinity / Ministry computer within the footprint of our IP addresses. 

For information on how to use R2 Library efficiently, see the R2 Library QuickStart Guide or the R2 Digital Library User Guide.

Suggestions for other eBooks to purchase for Ministry Health Care as a System?  

Contact Your Librarians :   Deb Knippel or Michele Matucheski

3 New eBooks via R2 Library : Pain, AACN, and Sleep

We have 3 new eBooks available to all Ministry Associates through The Library Without Walls. 

PAIN ASSESSMENT AND PHARMACOLOGIC MANAGEMENT Chris Pasero, MS, RN-BC, FAAN, Margo McCaffery, MS, RN-BC, FAAN http://www.r2library.com/Resource/Title/0323056962

PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF SLEEP MEDICINE Meir Kryger, MD, FRCPC, Thomas Roth, PhD, William Dement, MD, PhD http://www.r2library.com/Resource/Title/1437707319

AACN PROCEDURE MANUAL FOR CRITICAL CARE Debra Lynn-McHale Wiegand, PhD, RN, CCRN, FAAN http://www.r2library.com/Resource/Title/1416062181

Use the links above to access these eBooks now.

You can access these and our other 200+ eBooks in our  Ministry Libraries Catalog and our eBookshelf QuickBase Application. 

Select eBooks are also available on our subject-specific LibGuides like Nursing Standards.

Because we purchased online access to these eBooks, staff should be able to get through to the full-text as long as you are using an Affinity / Ministry computer within the footprint of our IP addresses. 

For information on how to use R2 Library efficiently, see the R2 Library QuickStart Guide or the R2 Digital Library User Guide.

Suggestions for other eBooks to purchase for Ministry Health Care as a System?  

Contact Your Librarian :   Deb Knippel or Michele Matucheski

Training for Ebsco’s Nursing Reference Center : Evidence-based Point-of-Care Clinical Resource

Kathy Jensen, MHA, RN, Medical Client Services Manager, will be visiting many of Ministry’s Hospitals  to provide classroom (estimated at 30 minutes) and roving nursing unit training (estimated to take 3-5 minutes).

Click the name of a hospital below for specific site schedules 

Eagle River Memorial Hospital - 06 August, 2014

Good Samaritan Health Center - 31 July, 2014
Howard Young Medical Center - 06 August, 2014
Mercy Medical Center - 07 August, 2014
Ministry Our Lady of Victory Hospital - 05 August, 2014
Ministry Saint Clare's Hospital - 29 July, 2014
Ministry Saint Joseph's Hospital - 05 August, 2014
Ministry Saint Mary's Hospital - 31 July, 2014
Ministry Saint Michael's Hospital - 29 July, 2014
Saint Elizabeth Hospital - 07 August, 2014

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If you are unable to attend one of the sessions, you can watch a short video tutorial about NRC.  

From the Mercy Archives : Dr CW Oviatt's Remedy & Prescription Book

Dr. C.W. Oviattt was a prominent physician in Oshkosh, Wisconsin .   The Oviatt home still stands on Algoma Blvd on the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Campus.

Recently, Dr Dick Clark shared Dr Oviatt's personal Remedy & Perscription book.  This notebook was started at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia on January, 1874.  It contains the remedy "recipes" for various ailments of the time.  Written in Dr Oviatt's own handwriting, this notebook is a treasure of Oshkosh Medical History.  

View the Picassa Photo Album of 78 pages from Dr Oviatt's Remedy & Prescription Book.

This is not the complete digitization of Dr Oviatt's notebook, but it does give a good idea of what it contains.   This book contains NO personal/private health information for any of Dr Oviatt's patients.    You will find Dr Oviatt's notes for treating such common ailments as :

     Chronic Constipation (pages 4-5)
     Epilepsy (6-8)
     Gonorrhoea (9-13)
     Diarrhea
     Chronic Inflammation of the Bladder
     Chilblaines
     Syphilis

More about Dr Oviatt [From the Mercy Hallmarks of History display at Mercy Medical Center in Oshkosh, WI] :

Dr. Charles William Oviatt was considered the best surgeon and medical doctor in the city. When he became a member of St. Mary’s Hospital (forerunner of Mercy) in 1894, he brought great prestige to the institution and attracted other physicians as well. He was a personal friend of the Mayo brothers – Charles and William – who were as famous in Rochester and beyond the state of Minnesota, as Dr. Oviatt was in Oshkosh and beyond the state of Wisconsin.

Early in his career, Dr. Oviatt became known as the "miracle doctor", mainly because he could successfully remove cataracts. This was a very delicate operation, which he performed under difficult conditions with old-fashioned instruments.

Later, Dr. Oviatt performed the first appendectomy in Wisconsin. His patient was an eight year old Fond du Lac girl, and people were shocked to find that he would "use the knife" on one so young. Furthermore, they didn’t think it was advisable to be operating in a hospital, instead of the girl’s home. But the operation proved successful, and people began to change their way of thinking.

Dr. Oviatt went on to play an important role in developing St. Mary’s Hospital. He himself paid for the equipment in the new operating rooms, aiming for "the last word in modern surgeries and laboratories". It was there that Dr. Oviatt performed the first goiter removal in the state.

Dr. Oviatt’s renowned success as a surgeon, as well as his profound kindness, attracted patients from near and far. People from out of town were brought to the hospital on stretchers in freight cars. Once, after Dr. Oviatt had diagnosed another doctor’s patient, the lady said to him, "Doctor, I leave it entirely to you; do what you think is right and best". The patient’s doctor, astonished at hearing this, said to Dr. Oviatt, "Say, Dr.,Oviatt, why is it that people have such great confidence in you the minute they meet you? This patient never saw you before, and she is at once ready to put her life completely in your hands". Dr. Oviatt answered, "Well, don’t you know yet? That is because I am bald-headed."

Despite the humility, Dr. Oviatt possessed a great sense of knowledge and wrote many papers describing his medical advances. As a result, he earned numerous honors, including election as one of the fifty members of the Society of Clinical Surgery.. This was an organization for the younger medical men of prominence in the United States. To qualify for membership, a doctor must "have discovered some new method of performing some kind of an operation". Many of Dr. Oviatt’s writings were termed "standard authority" at the time of his death.

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These and other items are on temporary loan at The Clark Family Health Science Library at Mercy Medical Center in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.  Many thanks to Dr Dick Clark for sharing some of his family treasures with us.  

From the Mercy Archives : Letter from BF Clark about his first Surgery in 1892

Dr Burton Clark Sr. as a young man.

Envelope of the BF Clark's Letter

Dr Dick Clark recently shared a letter from his personal family archives, written by his great grandfather, Dr. Burton F. Clark, Sr.  The letter was written to his future wife, Nellie Martin on June 26, 1892.  At the time, Burton was an intern with Dr. C.W. Oviatt at his hospital, Maple Lodge Sanitarium on Jackson Dr. in north Oshkosh, WI.  At the time, Burton was 23 years old and a student at Rush Medical School.   Burton wrote :

“Last Tuesday I operated on a dog, performed a laparotomy and would you believe it the dog is alive and from all appearances is going to get well.  That is my first attempt at cutting or sewing live tissue.  When I began, I thought sure that the dog would die before the operation was finished.  The Dr. [Oviatt] laughs a good deal about it.  The morning after the operation, I got up and looked out of the window and there walking down the road was my dog.  It had gotten out in some way and started for home.”

Dr. C.W. Oviattt, the prominent Oshkosh Physician that BF Clark worked with early in his medical career.     The Oviatt home still exists on Algoma Blvd on the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Campus.

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These and other items are on temporary loan at The Clark Family Health Science Library at Mercy Medical Center in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.  Many thanks to Dr Dick Clark for sharing some of his family treasures with us.  

NLM's Recipe Finder

National Library of Medicine (NLM)

Looking for some new recipes to work into your summer menu? Search by ingredient, recipe title or category (main dishes, desserts, etc.) to find healthy recipes submitted by nutrition and health professionals! http://recipefinder.nal.usda.gov/

Reposted from The NLM's Facebook page.

I know some of you were saddened and disappointed to discover that Natural Standard no longer offers it's trove of healthy recipes.  I thought this might be a good alternative. -- MM