October is Medical Librarians Month

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

Michele Matucheski        Mary Pat Gage         Elissa Kinzelman-Vesely      Kellee Selden

See our Ascension Wisconsin Library Services Website.

Clarification on The Librarian's Role in Helping with Student Research Assignments

By Michele Matucheski, MLS, AHIP and

Elissa Kinzelman-Vesely, MLIS, MA

Question : What is the Ascension Wisconsin Librarian’s role in helping with student research assignments?

Health Science Librarians are experts in :

·         Formulating answerable clinical questions

·         Knowing which literature databases to search

·         Constructing successful search strategies, and

·         Limiting search results to relevant literature topics. 

We’re here to assist nurses, physicians, and other health care providers with access to evidence-based  practice as it relates to patient care.  We know your time is short, and searching is what we do best. 

The Librarians will also take the time to teach nursing and health care students HOW to do their own library research; however, it is beyond our scope to actually complete research assignments for students.  Since it is part of your education to learn the research process, it would not be ethical, or honest for the Librarians to complete research assignments for school projects.  In short, we canno do your work for you, if it's for a school assignment.

Whether you are an RN, RN-to-BSN, MSN, or DNP student,  the Librarians can help you LEARN the research process.  That said, we are happy to teach you how to find the information for yourself.  We’ll actively play a role in your education so that you learn the skills you need to be an effective and continuous learner in your work life.

Here’s what you can expect from your Ascension Wisconsin Librarian when you bring us a student research assignment.  We will :

•  Set up a research consultation appointment in person or via Skype
• Lead you through the research process
• Help you refine your search strategy
• Introduce you to appropriate databases (PubMed or CINAHL), or other resources,
• Teach you how to use the databases effectively and efficiently with subject headings, appropriate search terms, filters & limits to arrive at a focuses set of search results,
•  Demonstrate how to access full-text articles
•  Show you how to request articles from your Librarian when not available in fulltext.

 Your Health Science Librarians have a great deal to offer students.  We enjoy teaching you how to do your own library research.  This is our job.  This is what we love.  

Most people who take the time to meet with a Librarian appreciate the personalized care and special attention.  Even better : They are amazed and delighted at what the Librarians can pull up on their particular topics, not to mention the search tips and tricks we can offer!

Research takes time, so plan ahead.  Make an appointment with your Librarian, and learn how to maximize your research efforts.  Even if you’re at a site without a library/librarian, we can Skype and share desktops to help you remotely. 

* For an appointment, contact Your Ascension Wisconsin Librarians : 

Michele Matucheski        Mary Pat Gage         Elissa Kinzelman-Vesely      Kellee Selden

Happy National PT Month - Featuring The Rehab (PT/OT/Speech) LibGuide

Happy PT Month!

Just wanted to remind our RehabTeams about the :

Rehabilitation (PT/OT/Speech) LibGuide  

http://ministryhealth.libguides.com/Rehab

It is filled with tools to help your teams make evidence-based and well-informed health care decisions, tailored to Rehabilitation.  Lots of fulltext options there for eBooks and eJournals. 

Don’t forget the eTOC Service.

Keep up with your professional reading with Emailed Tables-of-Contents

http://ascension-wi.libguides.com/libraryservices/etocs

The Clin. eTOC list has available Rehab/PT titles on it.

Your Librarian,

Michele

Michele Matucheski, MLS, AHIP

Medical Librarian - Library Services

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