Updated 3 August 2021

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Ascension Resources

The new site provides critical resources and updates for the Ascension community.
Regularly updated to help our clinicians and associates stay informed about our collaborative work together throughout this pandemic.
Includes The Ascension Vaccine Playbook
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Summarized one page visual documents that provide clear, quick and easy visualization for associates Read more.
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General Guidance on Testing for COVID-19 (As of May 12)
- This update includes details on the testing of asymptomatic people, those who we are testing, those who we are not testing, when a recovering COVID-19 patient can return to work, interpretation COVID-19 antibody (serology) testing and more.
Ascension Covid-19 Vaccination Policy NEW!
Ascension Covid-19 Vaccine: Myths & Facts NEW!

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Associate Exposure Guide, new visitor policy with signs, and a respiratory protection table during COVID-19.

includes a Summary document, but presented in a much more user-friendly fashion.
Clinical staff can easily access the necessary training documents, resources and more at work or at home through their Ascension Google account.
For ease of use, the site will be linked to the AW Coronavirus (COVID-19) Resource Document on PolicyStat. For more details, click here.

a COVID-19 self assessment
getting medical care and testing
tips on lowering your risk of exposure
and ways to protect you and your family.
Also includes a link for associates to easily access our internal COVID-19 Response Resource Center.

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Point-of-Care (Open to all)

Nursing Care Plans for Covid Patients

Topics of Interest:

HHS has extended the Community Based Testing Site program for COVID-19 testing, a partnership with national pharmacy and retail chains that has established more than 3,300 COVID-19 testing locations in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.
The Urban Indian Health Institute has developed a COVID-19 vaccines website that includes personal stories, the Native2Native video series and fact sheets on the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines.

The Sickle Cell Disease Association of America has released a Medical and Research Advisory Committee statement on the benefits and risks of COVID-19 vaccines on people living with sickle cell disease (SCD).

PPE Fatigue - CDC

PPE Fatigue is a REAL Threat - APIC

Other Covid Fact Sheets - APIC

Coronavirus (COVID-19) and Sickle Cell Disorder - general info and guidance from The Sickle Cell Society

FDA revokes authorization to use hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid-19

Decontaminating PPE-Supplement (Bibliography)

Ethics of Resource Allocation for Covid-19 (Bibliography)

Surge Capacity Planning (Bibliography)

Pediatrics (Bibliography)

Select ICU: Triage, SOFA, Ventilators (Bibliography)

Telehealth (Bibliography)

Therapeutics (Part 1) (Bibliography)

Best Hubs for Covid-19 Info:

Covid Tracking Project - Dashboards from The Atlantic
LitCovid - a subset of PubMed focused on Covid-19. Read more about it at Nature.

Covid-19 Key Resources - Australian Medical Library Assoc.
Covid-19 Resources for Medical Librarians - Medical Library Association
Global Research on Coronavirus Disease - WHO
UW Medicine Covid-19 Resource Site (Similar to our Ascension internal Response site)
Covid-19 Primer Dashboard - Tracks trending articles and news.

Rt.live - Calculates the rate at which Covid-19 is spreading in the US, measured by the average number of people who become sick from an infectious person, the site tracks the effective reproduction rate (Rt) of COVID-19 infections. If the value is less than one, the spread of the disease is slowing. The higher the Rt number, the worse the spread.

Journal, Publisher, Society Sites and Research Repositories:

Friday, February 7, 2020