Nurses Choice Recommended Reading - May 2017

May, 2017

Fighting burnout with SELF care
Nursing Critical Care, March 2017

Evidence-Based Practice and U.S. Healthcare Outcomes: Findings From a National Survey With Nursing Professional Development Practitioners
Journal for Nurses in Professional Development, Publish ahead of print

Are Generation Y Nurses Satisfied on the Job? Understanding Their Lived Experiences
JONA: Journal of Nursing Administration, April 2017

Simple Strategies for Surviving the Night Shift
Critical Care Nursing Quarterly, April/June 2017

Together into the future...Pharmacogenomics and documentation
Nursing Management, May 2017

Standardizing Best Nursing Practice for Implanted Ports: Applying Evidence-based Professional Guidelines to Prevent Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections
Journal of Infusion Nursing, May/June 2017

Implementation of Feeding Guidelines Hastens the Time to Initiation of Enteral Feeds and Improves Growth Velocity in Very Low Birth-Weight Infants
Advances in Neonatal Care, April 2017

Pain, Agitation, and Delirium Guidelines: Interprofessional Perspectives to Translate the Evidence
Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing, May/June 2017

Deep Tissue Pressure Injury: A Clinical Review
AJN The American Journal of Nursing, May 2017

Hepatitis C infection: Updates on treatment guidelines
The Nurse Practitioner, May 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

Ascension Wisconsin Library Services Literature Search Survey Annual Report - 2016

By Michele Matucheski, MLS, AHIP,  Librarian for Ascension Wisconsin

In 2015, Ministry Health Care Librarians began collecting feedback on the research (literature searches) we provided to our patrons.  This survey data was saved to a QuickBase App where we could compile and present the data visually.

After the Ascension Wisconsin merger in 2016, this QuickBase App was opened up to the newly formed Ascension Wisconsin Library Services Department, allowing 3 more Librarians to invite their respective customers to fill out evaluations on the quality and impacts of the research provided.  This feedback helps us understand how that research was used system-wide.

2016 AscWisL Literature Search Survey Annual Report for Leaders (pdf)

This report shows the impact Library Services has on Ascension Wisconsin’s  Quadruple Aim :

1)      Delivering high quality care

2)      Better patient and

3)      provider experiences and

4)      lowering overall costs

The word cloud above illustrates just SOME of the research projects that your Librarians have worked on in 2016.

Research demonstrates that Librarian-led information services improve clinical decision making and patient care outcomes. Library Services and quality health information can

• Reduce hospital costs,  length of stay
• Prevent Hospital Readmissions
• Improve diagnosis, patient care outcomes and clinical decision making
• Further their institution's mission and goals through expert searches, teaching health professional literature searching skills, providing community outreach programs, supporting innovation and research, and disseminating the best medical and business practice information.
• Contribute to a culture of inquiry and quality improvement by teaching nurses, physicians and staff information literacy and  literature searching skills
• Help avoid adverse events
• Save health professionals' time

 The report includes :

·         A word cloud listing SOME of the high profile searches we did in the past year

·         Introduction & Purpose

·         Meet Your Librarians

·         The Charts & Graphs

o   Reasons for asking a Librarian to do Research

o   Value of the Knowledge Provided

o   Change in Practice

o   Impact of Research Provided

o   Outcomes (as in Adverse Events Avoided)

o   Satisfaction

o   Time Saved

·         Total number of Searches done by AW Librarians in 2016

·         What Our Library Customers Say About Us

Thank you for using Library Services!

If you have questions or comments, please contact Your Ascension Wisconsin Librarians:

Michele Matucheski        Mary Pat Gage         Elissa Kinzelman-Vesely          Kellee Selden