Nurses Choice Recommended Reading - September 2016

September, 2016

Primary care NPs: Leaders in population health
The Nurse Practitioner, August 18 2016

Incivility Across the Nursing Continuum
Holistic Nursing Practice, July/August 2016

Special Concerns Through an Early Pregnancy Journey
Nutrition Today, July/August 2016

Cultural competency isn't just for patients
Nursing Made Incredibly Easy!, September/October 2016

Safe night-shift work
Nursing Management, August 2016

Original Research: Predicting Injurious Falls in the Hospital Setting: Implications for Practice
AJN, American Journal of Nursing, September 2016

Understanding spinal cord compression difficult decisions
Nursing, September 2016

Nursing Strategies to Increase Medication Safety in Inpatient Settings
Journal of Nursing Care Quality, October/December 2016

Use of a Moisture Wicking Fabric for Prevention of Skin Damage Around Drains and Parenteral Access Lines
Journal of Wound, Ostomy & Continence Nursing, Publish ahead of print

Interdisciplinary Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy as Part of Lumbar Spinal Fusion Surgery Rehabilitation: Experience of Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain
Orthopaedic Nursing, July/August 2016

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

Nurses Choice Recommended Reading - August 2016

August 2016

Effectiveness of Discharge Education on Postpartum Depression
MCN, The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing, May/June 2016

Moral Distress: A Qualitative Study of Emergency Nurses
Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing, July/August 2016

Delirium screening in the ICU
Nursing Critical Care, July 2016

Measuring Return on Investment for Professional Development Activities: Implications for Practice
Journal for Nurses in Professional Development, July/August 2016

Prediabetes: What Nurses Need to Know
AJN, American Journal of Nursing, July 2016

Nurse practitioners & genetic counselors: Collaborative roles in a complex system
The Nurse Practitioner, July 16 2016

Medication Errors Involving the Intravenous Administration Route: Characteristics of Voluntarily Reported Medication Errors
Journal of Infusion Nursing, July/August 2016

Medical Observation Units and Emergency Department Collaboration: Improving Patient Throughput
Journal of Nursing Administration, July/August 2016

Appropriate Use of Opioids in Managing Chronic Pain
AJN, American Journal of Nursing, July 2016

Complications of Hip Arthroscopy: Patient Perspectives
Orthopaedic Nursing, July/August 2016

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

MMC-125 : Professional Schools at Mercy

Mercy Medical Center in Oshkosh is celebrating 125 Years

Between now and the final celebration in September, we will share some stories and facts to show how far we have come in furthering the vision of the initial Sisters.

Can you name the 4 Professional Schools associated with MMC through the years?

Scroll down for the answers …

Mercy School of Nursing  1906 - 1982

Anesthesia – begun 1956 – ended?

Medical Technology – begun 1958 – ended?

X-Ray Tech / Rad Tech  - begun 1945 – Continues under Marian University as of 2014.

       The school left Mercy in June of 2023 and moved to Fond du Lac. * [Updated July 2023]

Read more about  History of Mercy Medical Center in Oshkosh, WI :

                Library Archives LibGuide – Mercy Medical Center

                The Hallmarks of Mercy Historical Display (Digital)

These short articles appeared in Jeremy Normington-Slay's Friday News & Notes emails sent out to all Mercy employees in 2016.  The historical and Archival Material was provided by Michele Matucheski, Librarian and Archivist at Mercy Medical Center. 

Change in Handling Requests for St. Joseph's School of Nursing Graduation Verification or Transcripts

Requests for graduation verification or transcripts for the St. Joseph’s School of Nursing in Marshfield, WI, please contact the following :

Email inquiries to : 
ascensionWIHR@ascension.org 

Or 
Snail-Mail Requests  to :

Human Resources
Ascension | Ministry Health Care
900 Illinois Ave.
Stevens Point, WI 54481

Please include copies of the signed release forms for student records.

Due to a July 2016 reorganization, Library Services no longer handles these requests.  

We simply don't have staff there anymore who can pull the files.   

MMC-125 : Technology Firsts at Mercy

Mercy Medical Center in Oshkosh is celebrating 125 Years

Between now and the final celebration in September, we will share some stories and facts to show how far we have come in furthering the vision of the initial Sisters.

Highlights of Mercy’s Technology Firsts

1922 – The first Mercy School of Nursing class to give insulin and IVs

1940s – Antibiotics

1950s – Iron Lung to treat Polio

1962 – Dept of Nuclear Medicine – “most complete facility north of Milwaukee”

1977 – 1^st to do CT Scans in the area

1983 – 1^st Cornea Transplant in Fox Valley

                Arthroscopic surgery

                Neodymium YAG surgical laser for eye microsurgery

1984 – Satellite Dish links MMC to the Hospital satellite Network (only 1 other in the state)

2003 – Linear Accelerator and Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) (Replaced by TruBeam in 2014)

2008 – Digital Mammography

2012 - Da Vinci Robotic Surgery  (Theda Clark got a different model in 2008)

2013 – Stereotactic Breast Biopsy Machine

2013 – Telemedicine ICU

2014 – TruBeam Linear Accelerator

Read more about  History of Mercy Medical Center in Oshkosh, WI :

                Library Archives LibGuide – Mercy Medical Center

                The Hallmarks of Mercy Historical Display (Digital)

These short articles appeared in Jeremy Normington-Slay's Friday News & Notes emails sent out to all Mercy employees in 2016.  The historical and Archival Material was provided by Michele Matucheski, Librarian and Archivist at Mercy Medical Center. 

MMC-125 : The Story Behind the Photo

Mercy Medical Center in Oshkosh is celebrating 125 Years

Between now and the final celebration in September, we will share some stories and facts to show how far we have come in furthering the vision of the initial Sisters.

The Story Behind the Photo …

The story behind the photo from The Patient Care Panel of The Hallmarks of Mercy Historical Display

The little boy with the broken arm is Mr. Allan Lichtwald, currently of Red Granite, WI.  The year was about 1950.  He was a 10-year-old pediatric patient with a broken arm.  The fracture was so close to his elbow that the bone wouldn’t knit together correctly and had to be re-broken 18 times.  A specialist was called in from Milwaukee who recommended amputating the boy’s arm because it would never heal properly.  The boy’s parents said, “No” and signed him up for accordion lessons as therapy.  That did the trick!  Mr. Lichtwald to this day still has his arm intact and in working order.

He is pictured with his favorite nurse, Nancy, who used to sneak him cups of peanut butter because he didn’t like the food served on his tray.

2 November 2001

as told by Mr. Lichtwald to Michele Matucheski, MMC Librarian

Post Script :  Mr. Allan Lichtwald died peacefully Sept. 6, 2011, in Marian, WI.  
He was born Oct. 9, 1940.    

Read more about  History of Mercy Medical Center in Oshkosh, WI :

                Library Archives LibGuide – Mercy Medical Center

                The Hallmarks of Mercy Historical Display (Digital)

These short articles appeared in Jeremy Normington-Slay's Friday News & Notes emails sent out to all Mercy employees in 2016.  The historical and Archival Material was provided by Michele Matucheski, Librarian and Archivist at Mercy Medical Center. 

MMC-125 : Mercy's Medical Families

Mercy Medical Center in Oshkosh is celebrating 125 Years

Between now and the final celebration in September, we will share some stories and facts to show how far we have come in furthering the vision of the initial Sisters.

Mercy’s Medical Families

There are many “Medical Families” in Oshkosh who offer the community generations of caring Physicians.  Can you name some of Mercy’s Medical Families?

Scroll down for the answers :

Answers : L-R in photo :  Zmoleks - Flahertys - Webers – McDonalds 

Three generations of Clark Family surgeons have helped keep Oshkosh residents alive and healthy for more than 100 years. Dr. William "Bill" Clark, seated in foreground, performed general surgery in Oshkosh from 1934 to 1976. His son, Dr. David Dick Clark, a general, vascular and hand surgeon, began his practice in 1974. Dr. Burton Clark, shown in the photo held by Dick Clark, began the tradition in 1894.

Other medical families not pictured include :

Radfords – Ringwalas  - Leschkes

There may be more …

Read more about  History of Mercy Medical Center in Oshkosh, WI :

                Library Archives LibGuide – Mercy Medical Center

                The Hallmarks of Mercy Historical Display (Digital)

These short articles appeared in Jeremy Normington-Slay's Friday News & Notes emails sent out to all Mercy employees in 2016.  The historical and Archival Material was provided by Michele Matucheski, Librarian and Archivist at Mercy Medical Center. 

MMC-125 : Mercy Volunteers

Mercy Medical Center in Oshkosh is celebrating 125 Years

Between now and the final celebration in September, we will share some stories and facts to show how far we have come in furthering the vision of the initial Sisters.

Mercy Volunteers

In 1941, The Red Cross Volunteers organized themselves at Mercy.  Also known as The Gray Ladies, they were the volunteer work force for Mercy.  Through the years, Mercy Volunteers have contributed more than a billion hours of service at Mercy.

Auxiliary – Volunteers begin in 1950s started by Sr Oswaldina to build a partnership with community members. 

Sr. Oswaldina Nutz, administrator of Mercy Hospital from 1957 to 1961, is credited with founding the Mercy Hospital Auxiliary in 1958.  Her purpose, at least in part, was to increase community involvement in the hospital.  “The greater concern the public shows for its hospital, the stronger the spirit of the hospital will be, the better the care the patients will receive, and the greater the feeling of security you will enjoy,” Sister Oswaldina said.  She kicked off a membership recruitment drive with a tea and tours to introduce community members to the hospital.  The Auxiliary project was a success, and in little more than a year, there were 163 members.  Today, the total of funds raised by the [Mercy Medical Center Volunteers (MMCV) organization] is well over a million dollars.    – From The Hallmarks of Mercy Historical Display.

Read more about  History of Mercy Medical Center in Oshkosh, WI :

                Library Archives LibGuide – Mercy Medical Center

                The Hallmarks of Mercy Historical Display (Digital)

                                

  

These short articles appeared in Jeremy Normington-Slay's Friday News & Notes emails sent out to all Mercy employees in 2016.  The historical and Archival Material was provided by Michele Matucheski, Librarian and Archivist at Mercy Medical Center. 

Library Resources to Make Your Work Life Easier

Not everyone has had the opportunity to get oriented to our Library Resources, so we wanted to take a moment to show you what’s available :

Library Services Home Page

How to get there : The Source >  Departments & Intranets  > Library

Consider adding this to your Source Favorites on the left side-bar. 

·         Our contact info is on the right side.

·         If you use the PubMed link on the library pages, it will tap into our full-text offerings.

·         If you can’t get to a full-text article, send us the citations and we’ll get them for you.  We have connections all the way up to the National Library of Medicine, and it won’t cost you anything! 

·         We offer a current awareness service so you can keep up with your favorite professional journals.  Just let me know what titles you’re interested in.  For each new issue, you’ll get an email with links to the current full-text articles. 

Physician & Provider ToolBox – is filled with tools and resources most helpful to a busy Provider seeing patients, including tools for

·         Point-of-Care  (Clinical Key, AccessMedicine, Harrison’s Online, Medscape, Ferri’s Clinical Advisor)

·         Access to over 1500 eBooks, full-text articles

·         Patient Education

·         Mobile Apps

There’s a Recorded WebEx with an introductory Tour to The Provider ToolBox.  It will be 20 minutes well spent.

This customizes the Library pages for Physicians & Providers.

The tabs across the top lead to more tools for :

                Drug Info

                Diagnosis

                Patient Education

How to get there :

The Source  > Links & Resources > Library > Provider Tool Box

Clinical ReferenceTools for Providers LibGuide

                Direct url : http://ministryhealth.libguides.com/clinicalreference

Consider adding this page to your Source Favorites.   

Clinical Key with FirstConsult and Procedures Consult

There’s also a Search Tips Page for Clinical Key, filled with useful articles and tutorials and videos to help you get the most out of it. 

                FirstConsult is similar to UptoDate, by offering review articles on 1400 primary care topics, including current evidence, treatment and dosing info, and more.

                ProceduresConsult is like YouTube for Medicine.  It’s great if you need to review a procedure before you have to do it.  It provides a web video, along with a complete write-up of the procedure, including coding info.

                Clinical Key includes 1100+ medical eBooks, and 500+ eJournals. 

Nursing Reference Center – Point-of-Care tool for Nursing.  Great for short disease overviews, nursing procedures, evidence based practice care sheets, patient education, and CEUs.       See a brief overview video (6 min.). 

                Nursing Reference Center Support Page

We would be more than happy to give you a personal tour of all these resources, designed to make your work life easier.  Contact Your Librarians for an appointment.

Michele Matucheski, 920.223.0340 

or

Deb Knippel, 715.346.5091

Ask-a-Librarian : Nursing Scholarships

Ask-a-Librarian : Do you have any info on available scholarships for BSN/MSN programs?

The following links may provide you with some sources for educational funding for nursing.  Application deadlines and funding amounts will vary.    

1)     Ministry Health Care Human Resources offers Tuition Reimbursement.  Please see the policy.

2)     Mercy Medical Center Employees should check with Denise Parrish.  There are scholarships available through the David C. Leach Continuing Education for Nurses, the Phyllis Leach Endowment Fund, the Dolores Wassman Endowment fund, the Nancy Piencikowski Endowment fund, and the Rae Mead Scholarship.

3)     St. Elizabeth Hospital Associates should check with Heather Schimmers (Admin. Asst : Melissa Gilmore) as there are some scholarships available exclusively for STE Employees.

4)     For other Hospitals around Ministry Health Care, please check with your respective Patient Care Leaders/ Directors of  Patient Care/Nursing for info on local scholarships.

5)     AscensionScholarships through Capella University   

6)     Check with the Financial Office or the specific Nursing Program at your School.  They may know of additional scholarships available.  

7)     The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) -Financial Aid                    

8)     SigmaTheta Tau International – Honor Society of Nursing offers a listing of possible scholarship sources

9)     NursingScholarship

10)  WisconsinNurses Association - Scholarships  

11)  FSNSA  - The Foundation of the National Student Nurses’ Association – Scholarships 

12)  NurseCorps Scholarships - 

13)   Certain Nursing Professional Organizations may also offer scholarships.  Some of them are listed here.

Best wishes in your quest for higher education!