Monday, March 23, 2020

NRC Plus Home page lists an easy link to the internal Ascension Covid-19 Response



 link has been added to the home page of NRC Plus.   
In the screenshot above, the link is highlighted in yellow at the bottom of the NRC Plus page.

NRC Plus allows us to add useful outside links (non-NRC Plus content) to the homepage of NRC Plus.

Short of everyone having the link bookmarked, the NRC Plus home page is a universal place for Ascension nurses (and other internal staff) to find this link around the country when they need it in a hurry.
It does not replace local links on local intranets.  It does offer an additional access point to get there.

Thursday, March 19, 2020

Ascension Covid-19 Response Resource Center

Coronavirus from the CDC's Public Health Image Library.


To get you the information you need, Ascension has developed the 

COVID-19 Response Resource Center

  • an internal website for associates and clinicians to support our efforts to keep the entire Ascension community informed throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.


WHAT DOES THE NEW SITE PROVIDE?
The new site provides critical resources and updates for the Ascension community. 

The COVID-19 Response Resource Center replaces the use of Jam and SharePoint for housing resources and updates


  • All chapters of the toolkit formerly known as “COVID-19 Toolkit” on Jam are now represented as individual documents on the site. 
  • All memos can be found in a section titled “Other.”


As information continues to evolve based on guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, documents, protocols and resources on the site will be updated.

Please bookmark the page and check it often.


WHO CAN ACCESS THE SITE?
The site is accessible to all associates, contingent workers, aligned medical staff, and other Ascension stakeholders with an existing Google account. Please click here for instructions.

Wednesday, March 11, 2020

Nurses Choice Recommended Reading - March 2020


March 2020
See what your fellow nurses are reading! Browse this month's round-up of the top 10 most read articles from Lippincott's prestigious list of nursing journals.

Check out the link below on 2019 Novel Coronavirus.
Clinical Nurse Specialist

Cracking the Code for Quality: The Interrelationships of Culture,
Nurse Demographics, Advocacy, and Patient Outcomes

JONA: Journal of Nursing Administration, March 2020

Self-management Needs of Breast Cancer Survivors After Treatment:
Results From a Focus Group Interview

Cancer Nursing, January/February 2020

Recent Surveys on Food Allergy Prevalence
Nutrition Today, January/February 2020

Emerging Views of Kinships Created Through Oocyte Donation
MCN, The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing, January/February 2020

Leadership strategies to promote frontline nursing staff engagement
Nursing Management, February 2020

What if the bully is the manager?
Nursing, March 2020

The Role of Nutrition for Pressure Injury Prevention and Healing:
The 2019 International Clinical Practice Guideline Recommendations

Advances in Skin & Wound Care, March 2020

Patient Rights at the End of Life: The Ethics of Aid-in-Dying
Professional Case Management, March/April 2020

Bedside Technologies to Enhance the Early Detection of Pressure Injuries:
A Systematic Review

Journal of Wound, Ostomy & Continence Nursing, Publish ahead of print

A Lean Approach to Improve Medication Administration Safety
by Reducing Distractions and Interruptions

Journal of Nursing Care Quality, 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        Kellee Selden