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.
· 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
NRC has been one of my main go-to resources and a site I often recommend to bedside nurses for their questions. I hope we have a similar if not better resource for our future. -- Chris Maghrak
ReplyDeleteThanks everyone for your kind comments. Rest assured that whatever new tool is chosen, I will be part of the team to launch it, and make sure that our Nurses are comfortable with the new tool, and trained on it.
ReplyDeleteI too used this site a great deal and hope its replacement is as useful. -- Kelly Schultz
ReplyDeleteAnd whatever we get, I am sure that Michele Matucheski will help us all to use it. She is also an invaluable resource when you need to find information. If anyone needs questions answered about where info is, Michele can help. -- Barbara Caldwell
ReplyDeleteI hope the replacement will be as useful. I have utilized it a lot! -- Barbara Cadwell
ReplyDeleteNRC has been an invaluable point of care resource. I too hope that its replacement will be able to compare to NRC. -- Jessica Minton
ReplyDeleteI will definitely miss NRC -- It's been a great resource. I love using it when mentoring new nurses! --Lindsey Bowden
ReplyDeleteSuch a great resource. Hoping the next one is equal to or better than NRC. -- Norma Thums
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