Announcements and featured resources for Library Users of Ascension Wisconsin Health Intranets (including legacy Affinity/Ministry/Fox Valley, Columbia-St. Mary's, and Wheaton-Franciscan).
This Healthcare IT News is running a series on Pandemic Era Burnout in the Age of Covid-19
These feature stories dig deep into the causes of burnout for employees across healthcare during the COVID-19 crisis. CIOs, clinicians, IT developers, patients and others offer advice on how to combat the stressors that lead to burnout – and describe how technology can both hurt and help during this stressful time.
See the full series as new stories are added.
Zulman DM, Haverfield MC, Shaw JG, Brown-Johnson CG, Schwartz R, Tierney AA, Zionts DL, Safaeinili N, Fischer M, Thadaney Israni S, Asch SM, Verghese A.JAMA. 2020 Jan 7;323(1):70-81. doi: 10.1001/jama.2019.19003.PMID: 31910284AbstractImportance: Time constraints, technology, and administrative demands of modern medicine often impede the human connection that is central to clinical care, contributing to physician and patient dissatisfaction.
Objective: To identify evidence and narrative-based practices that promote clinician presence, a state of awareness, focus, and attention with the intent to understand patients.
Evidence review: Preliminary practices were derived through a systematic literature review (from January 1997 to August 2017, with a subsequent bridge search to September 2019) of effective interpersonal interventions; observations of primary care encounters in 3 diverse clinics (n = 27 encounters); and qualitative interviews with physicians (n = 10), patients (n = 27), and nonmedical professionals whose occupations involve intense interpersonal interactions (eg, firefighter, chaplain, social worker; n = 30). After evidence synthesis, promising practices were reviewed in a 3-round modified Delphi process by a panel of 14 researchers, clinicians, patients, caregivers, and health system leaders. Panelists rated each practice using 9-point Likert scales (-4 to +4) that reflected the potential effect on patient and clinician experience and feasibility of implementation; after the third round, panelists selected their "top 5" practices from among those with median ratings of at least +2 for all 3 criteria. Final recommendations incorporate elements from all highly rated practices and emphasize the practices with the greatest number of panelist votes.
Findings: The systematic literature review (n = 73 studies) and qualitative research activities yielded 31 preliminary practices. Following evidence synthesis, 13 distinct practices were reviewed by the Delphi panel, 8 of which met criteria for inclusion and were combined into a final set of 5 recommendations:
Conclusions and relevance: This mixed-methods study identified 5 practices that have the potential to enhance physician presence and meaningful connection with patients in the clinical encounter. Evaluation and validation of the outcomes associated with implementing the 5 practices is needed, along with system-level interventions to create a supportive environment for implementation.
"Stories are how we make sense of the world."
Dr. Abraham Verghese wrote one of my all-time favorite novels: Cutting for Stone. Not only is Dr. Verghese a novelist, but also a practicing physician and Stanford Professor of Medicine.
Here he talks with Dr Zubin Damania (aka ZDoggMD) about The Power of Story and the current pandemic, and why it matters.
Do yourself a favor and recharge with this wonderful hour of hopeful, inspiring, thoughtful conversation about how pandemics transform society. You won't regret it!
[This article first appeared on The Badger Bulletin October 27, 2020.]
October is Health Literacy Month, a perfect time to highlight the health resources available to all Wisconsin residents through BadgerLink. Login to BadgerLink to access these resources from home today!
Question about your prescription medication? Take a look at AHFS Consumer Medication Information. Published by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, it offers content from drug information ebooks. Written for the average person, this resource includes "how to" information for administering different types of medications and identifies medications that have the potential for adverse events when used by older adults.
Want to learn more about alternative and holistic approaches to health care and wellness? Alt HealthWatch contains full-text articles for more than 190 international, and often peer-reviewed journals on subjects such as acupuncture, aromatherapy, childbirth, Chinese medicine, chiropractic, creative therapies, cross-cultural therapies, energy medicine, herbalism, homeopathy, mind-body medicine, naturopathy, nutrition, osteopathy, and more.
Consumer Health Complete is your one-stop shop, BadgerLink resource for consumer-oriented health content, from mainstream to holistic medicine. This resource contains full text for more than 560 magazines and journals, 230 full-text health reference books and encyclopedias, and hundreds of medical images and diagrams.
If you are a middle or high school student researching consumer health information for a project, start your search with Health Source: Consumer Edition. Full-text consumer health magazines, health pamphlets, and reference books that cover many health topics including medical sciences, food science and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine, and general health. Great for general public use too!
Nursing and medical students at the college and post baccalaureate level may find Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition more helpful for their research. With more than 355 full-text journals including 287 peer-reviewed journals, this resource provides researchers, allied health professionals, nurses, and medical educators with information on many medical disciplines. Full-text journals include: Issues in Comprehensive Pediatric Nursing, Issues in Mental Health Nursing, Journal of Advanced Nursing, Journal of Nursing Management, Nursing Ethics, Nursing Inquiry and more!
For even more in depth academic research in the medical/nursing fields, be sure to also utilize MEDLINE and PubMed. MEDLINE contains over 21 million citations to journal articles in the life sciences and is used by healthcare professionals, nurses, clinicians, and researchers engaged in clinical care, public health, and health policy development. PubMed has over 26 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.
Questions about getting started searching in any of these resources? Ask a Librarian or check out the BadgerLink Training page for helpful information sheets and videos.
| November 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.
* List and links courtesy of Anne Chaney at Wolters-Kluwer/Ovid. * Questions about access, contact Your Ascension Wisconsin Librarians: Michele Matucheski Kellee Selden |
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Thursday Nov 12:Medications: Drug interactions, monographs, and more
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Learn how DynaMed integrates drug content from Micromedex, provides best available management recommendations, and how to use the Drug Interaction checker.
Tuesday Nov 17: Mobile
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Learn how to access DynaMed from your mobile device to get answers, earn CME, and have access anywhere, anytime.
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Learn how DynaMed's daily update process can help you stay on top of important changes in evidence and guidelines for your practice.
Thursday Dec 17: CME/MOC
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The #1 FM board prep resource: Graber and Wilbur's Family Medicine Examination and Board Review
Also available on AccessMedicine
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Kristin Bock of Body Language Blueprints shares simple ways to mask-proof your verbal cues.
These tips are all the more important for good communication during the pandemic.
