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).
Your Ascension Wisconsin Librarians are still working remotely, supporting our Health Care Heroes during the pandemic.
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Question: What AW Library resources are available remotely?
Option 1: VPN or Citrix
If you can get VPN (ie FortiClient) or Citrix access through AIT, this will be the most seamless option to using ALL our library resources at home. That said, we know that VPN access is not an option for all associates. If the VPN doesn't work for you, try Citrix.
Option 2: Personal Accounts
Several (not all) AW Library resources are available to our associates at home or as mobile apps. Unfortunately, we are not able to offer a single sign-in to simplify the process. The alternate method often requires signing up for personal accounts for each resource and keeping track of additional usernames and passwords.
Below is a short list of Library Resources that are available to AW staff at home (or otherwise away from Ascension worksites), along with information about signing up for remote access.
See the Mobile Apps LibGuide for more info. about specific resources.
Visit Ascension Wisconsin Library Services for more info.
Ascension Wisconsin Library Services purchased online access to the following NEW nursing eBooks through the R2 Digital Library.
It’s difficult to talk about, even scary. Important things usually are. And deciding what to do about that transition between life and death – how to make it more comfortable, what to do afterwards – is so very important, to our loved ones and ourselves. It involves issues not only of health, but of spirituality, compassion and trust.
Whether your focus of concern is on a family member or yourself, NNLM Reading Club suggests three books that may help with your understanding of end-of-life matters and those conversations you probably have been putting off.
We encourage you to take a deep breath, read one of these books, and discuss it with people whose opinions you respect, especially those in your own family. It just might make you feel a whole lot better about the inevitable.
Visit the NNLM Reading. Club: End of Life health topic to get started.
The 3 recommended books are:
1) Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?
2) The Five Invitations: Discovering what Death can Teach Us about Living Fully
3) The Unwinding of the Miracle
| April 2021 See what your fellow nurses are reading! Browse this month's round-up of 10 top articles from Lippincott's prestigious list of nursing journals. After reading this month's Nurses' Choice selections, be sure to check out "2019 Novel Coronavirus Nurse Resources" – expertly-sourced nursing-focused videos, podcasts, webinars (for NCPD credits) and more |  |
This article from gives the skinny on what you can and can't do just yet ...
First of all, before anything else: Be proud.
Breathe easier.
Walk or sit taller.
Let go of some of the worry that’s lurked in the back of your mind for the past year.
Pat yourself on the back (if you just got vaccinated in the last day or two, you may need to use the arm that your shot didn’t go into…).
Accept the silent thanks of health care providers, who are caring for new, mostly younger, COVID-19 patients who caught the virus and got seriously ill before they could get vaccinated.
Now that you’ve done all that, here are seven practical tips for living your post-vaccinated life:
- Remember that vaccination is a journey.
- You can do things -- but not everything, yet.
- You've got a new forcefield around you--but it's not impenetrable.
- You can join the effort to track vaccine reactions.
- You can help those who are on the fence.
- You're spared the inconvenience of quarantining after an exposure.
- You can make up funny social media posts or play a fun game on Twitter.
Reposted from NPR's Goats & Soda blog. Article by Joe Palca. April 1, 2021.
(No it's NOT April Fool's.)
"I've spent 30 years trying to make complicated science understandable. Explaining how vaccines work can be especially tricky. Explaining the new technology used in COVID-19 vaccines can be trickier still.
So my heart filled with joy and delight when I saw Vick Krishna's TikTok explaining how the vaccines made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna work. So simple. So straightforward. So well done."
The content of Clinical Key is constantly being updated. Here are the highlights for April 2021. |
Updated Clinical Overviews – Selected Topics
Books Added – CK Global
Journals Added – CK Global
Books Removed – CK Global
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