Nurses: Welcome to Ascension Wisconsin Library Services - Library Resources to Make Your Work Life Easier

 

This post was updated and revised on 2-1-2023. Read the current version.

Dear AW Nurses: 

Welcome to Ascension Wisconsin Library Services!

           

Michele Matucheski, MLS, AHIP  and Kellee Selden, MLIS, MSMI

 

We are your Medical Librarians for Ascension Wisconsin.   

We wanted to give you a tour of Library Services.

 

Ascension Wisconsin Library Services Home [Use Chrome]

Feel free to add this link to your Favorites/Bookmarks.  This website offers the same content statewide.  

• You can get to AW Library Services in 3 easy steps from Good Day Ascension with this path: Good Day Ascension > My Ministry > Ascension Wisconsin > AW Library Services [Use Chrome]

• Find our contact info under the Contact Your Librarians tab.
• If you use the PubMed links on our library pages, it will tap into our full-text offerings.  
  
• Get Articles! If you can’t get to a full-text article, send me or Kellee the citations and we’ll get them for you.  We have connections all the way up to the National Library of Medicine, and it won’t cost you a thing.  Feel free to email citations to us, or use our Request Forms.
• Expert Literature Searches.  We are also available to search the databases on your behalf, if you don't have time or are not comfortable searching them yourself.  Just tell us what you're looking for and we'll return relevant search results with links to fulltext articles whenever possible.  

We offer a New Issue Alerts / eTOC current awareness service so you can keep up with your favorite professional journals.  Just let me know what titles you’re interested in.  For each new issue, you’ll get an email with links to the current full-text articles.  

Nursing Reference Center Plus is a nursing point-of-care tool for nurses.  It includes

• Nursing Skills & Procedures (with Competencies)
• Diseases & Conditions
• Evidence-Based Care Sheets
• Drug Info with Nursing Implications
• Management Topics
• Patient Education Handouts to supplement what is already in the EHRs
• Easy Journal Search
• Continuing Education
• Videos & Images

NRC Plus is considered an excellent source-of-truth for current nursing skills & procedures.  After your local policies, NRC Plus should be the go-to reference that will help you provide consistent and highly reliable care across Ascension nation-wide.  

Icons / Links for NRC Plus should be on all AW desktops, and linked within the EHRs as well.  

Nursing Reference Center Plus Search Tips page

• Helpful handouts, videos and tutorials for NRC Plus
• Includes info about accessing NRC at home and via mobile devices
• How to tell the difference between a Nursing Skill and a Journal Article in NRC Plus
• Watch this short 3-minute video tour for a quick overview of NRC Plus.
• NRC Plus Takeaway Guide (1-page handout)

Cinahl-FT - Find nursing articles in the professional literature.

           See also: CinahlFT Search Tips

Nursing Point-of-Care LibGuide pulls together some of the just-in-time online reference tools that are most useful for nurses in direct care of patients, including:

• Nursing Procedure Manuals
• (includes The Lippincott Manuals, known to be excellent nursing references for policies & procedures)
• Diseases & Disorders
• Drug Info
• Lab Tests
• Taber’s Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary
• Cinahl (Find Nursing Articles)
• Patient Education
• Includes links to go deeper with the Nursing Specialties LibGuide and Clinical Key.
• Links should be included in all AW EHRs.

Nursing Specialties LIbGuide  compliments The Nursing Point-of-Care LibGuide, and goes beyond general nursing, pulling together links and resources for the different Nursing Specialty focus areas, such as :

• Cancer Nursing
• Emergency Room Nursing
• Infusion Nursing
• Maternal Newborn Nursing / OB
• NICU Nursing
• Nursing Admin
• Pain Management Nursing
• Pediatric Nursing
• Perianesthesia Nursing
• Perioperative Nursing (YES, You'll find the AORN Guidelines there!)
• and more ...

Resources in each nursing specialty may include:

• relevant professional organizations
• eJournals
• eBooks
• handy links to relevant databases like Cinahl, Lexicomp, or PubMed
• and useful websites.    

Lexicomp Clinical Drug Reference - the official drug reference across Ascension Health Care.  

              Dosing info, interactions, etc.  

              LexiComp Search Tips - Includes info about the mobile app.  

If you want to dig into what the doctors are using, you are welcome to do so:

Clinical Key with Clinical Overviews and Procedures Consult

• Don't miss the Search Tips Page for Clinical Key, filled with useful articles, tutorials and videos to help you get the most out of it. 
• Clinical Key includes 1100+ medical eBooks, and 500+ eJournals. 
• Patient Education Handouts.

DynaMed is a physician point-of-care reference tool offering answers to clinical questions.  Content is written by a team of physicians and researchers who synthesize the evidence and provide objective analysis.  It offers clinically organized summaries for more than 3,200 topics.   Also includes drug info.   See also: The DynaMed Search Tips page.  

Let me or Kellee know if we can be of any help to you.  If you want an in-depth look at any of our resources, we would be happy to give you a personalized tour.  Let me know if you want to schedule something.

 

Your AW Medical Librarians,

Michele and Kellee

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Michele Matucheski, MLS, AHIP

Medical Librarian

Michele.Matucheski@ascension.org

 

Kellee Selden, MLIS, MSMI

Manager & Medical Librarian

Kellee.Selden@ascension.org

Ascension Wisconsin Library Services 

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If it takes you more than 10 minutes to find something, call or email the library. Finding what you need, no matter how obscure, is what we do.