Sunday, March 20, 2022

Nurses Choice Recommended Reading - March 2022

 

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March 2022

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.


Also: Hear Nursing Perspectives On Adapting to
Changes in Healthcare by Attending
the Upcoming Webinar
"Nursing’s Wake-up Call: Change is Now Non-negotiable"

Nursing2022

Is ANTT Achievable in the Home Healthcare Setting?
Home Healthcare Now, March/April 2022

Recognizing elder abuse
Nursing made Incredibly Easy!, March/April 2022

Addressing Occupational Fatigue in Nurses: A User-Centered Design Approach
for Fatigue Risk Management

JONA: Journal of Nursing Administration, March 2022

Ethical Decision Making: Considerations for Frail Older Adults
Clinical Nurse Specialist: The Journal for Advanced Nursing Practice, March/April 2022

Thirst Interventions in Adult Acute Care—What Are the Recommended Management
Options and How Effective Are They?: A Systematic Review

Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing, March/April 2022

A community-based approach to COVID-19 on a college campus:
A case report of a student with upper respiratory symptoms

The Nurse Practitioner, March 2022

Skin Failure: Concept Review and Proposed Model
Advances in Skin & Wound Care: The Journal for Prevention and Healing, March 2022

Enhancing workforce diversity by supporting the transition of
internationally educated nurses

Nursing Management, February 2022

Rheumatoid arthritis and DVT risk
Nursing2022, February 2022

Postpartum Pain Management
MCN, The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing, January/February 2022


* Questions about access, contact your Ascension Wisconsin Librarians

 Michele Matucheski        Kellee Selden

Saturday, March 19, 2022

Did you know ... AORN Members can take advantage of The Clinical Nursing Consult Line



Did you know ...  AORN offers a Clinical Nursing Consult Line?

If you don't find answers in the current AORN Guidelines provided by AW Library Services, or by the usual library research, AORN's Clinical Nursing Consult Line may be an option to tap into this specialty expertise!

The AORN nurse consultants can be reached by calling AORN Customer Service at (800) 755-2676.

AORN's Clinical Nursing Consult Line
Tuesdays from 10am-2pm CST
(800) 755-2676

AORN's Nursing Team is available during this time to answer hands-on questions.

This service is free for active AORN members and is $120.00 for non-members (Sorry, your Librarians are not AORN Members). Give AORN a call during these times, with your Member ID number ready, and they will get you transferred to the consult line for assistance.


Customer Service
Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN)
2170 S. Parker Road, Ste. 400
Denver, CO 80231
800-755-2676
www.aorn.org

Friday, March 18, 2022

New SwabCap Reference and Training Info on the AW Nursing Point-of-Care and Specialty LibGuides

Working with Lauren Schmidt of The Resource Group and Rachel Braasch from Clinical Professional Development, we've added reference and training material about the new SwabCaps being implemented due to the current Prevantics shortage.

We know some AW Nurses already know and love these products; and for others, it's entirely new.  

This info will be available at your fingertips on the following AW Nursing LibGuides:



Thursday, March 17, 2022

Nursing Reference Center Plus: Best Evidence for Busy Nurses



Nurses, PCTs, CNAs, and allied health specialists at Ascension have a secret weapon in their back pockets - Nursing Reference Center Plus (NRC-Plus). 

NRC Plus is a website to support clinical care. It’s a great resource for any busy nurse with a question in mind.

NRC Plus is designed to deliver reliable information, quickly. 
It contains:
  • evidence-based care sheets
  • nursing skills procedures and checklists
  • CEU modules 
  • patient handouts
  • "quick lessons" providing concise clinical summaries
  • journal articles 
  • and books.
It’s easy to search NRC-Plus and narrow your results to locate the best answer. Having evidence-based tools at our fingertips helps us deliver top-notch care. NRC-Plus is continuously updated with new medical discoveries, so you can have confidence that you’re using the best available information.



A little-known feature of NRC-Plus is the collection of full-text nursing books. 
Find these under the   “More” tab at the top of the screen [See image above.]
  • AHFS Drug information essentials
  • Davis’s comprehensive manual of laboratory and diagnostic tests with nursing implications
  • Davis’s drug guide for nurses
  • Diseases and disorders: a nursing therapeutics manual
  • Nursing care plans
  • Nursing diagnosis manual
  • Pocket psych drugs
  • RN Notes: nurse’s clinical pocket guide
  • Taber’s cyclopedic medical dictionary
  • Understanding medical surgical nursing



Ascension subscribes to NRC-Plus for all our associates nation-wide. 
It is accessible in a number of ways:

  • Available as an app for your smartphone or tablet (free download)
  • From home with a password (set up your account from an Ascension computer, then you can connect to NRC+ from anywhere on the Web)
Find out more on the NRC Plus Search Tips pages.  

Questions or comments, contact Your Ascension Wisconsin Librarians: 
 Michele Matucheski        Kellee Selden

Thursday, March 10, 2022

Policies vs. Procedures

Policies by Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0 Pix4free.org  Original Image.


For those of you needing to update policies (like me), consider the following:

  • Does the policy need to remain active?
  • Is there is a AW policy that can replace it?
  • Can it become a procedure or resource document instead?

Read on for tips on discerning policies from procedures:

Key Point: If it's more like a procedure and would be part of a procedure manual (think of the nursing skills in NRC Plus), it probably does NOT belong in a policy, esp. if you can find that info somewhere else.   Link to it, but don't re-hash it in a policy.  

 

Try to not include procedural specifics in policies that could get us into regulatory trouble if we didn't follow it to the letter, or if it wasn't updated frequently enough to reflect current practice.  The specific procedures may differ by site, but the overall policy applies statewide.

 

Policies are not the same as procedures, though there may be some overlap.

 

Reference the MHC Policy Procedure Resource Definitions 

 

Policy Procedure Resource Definitions - PolicyStat ID=5752739  [This one covers Ascension Wisconsin as of 2018.]

Policy Document

  • A definite course or method of action selected from among alternatives and in light of given conditions to guide and determine present and future decisions

  • Policies usually:

    • Have widespread application

    • Are non-negotiable, change infrequently

    • Are expressed in broad terms

    • Are statements of what and/or why

    • Answer major operational issues

Policy/Procedure Document

  • The manner of performing something; a method or technique.

  • A series of steps for doing something.

  • Procedures usually:

    • Have a narrower focus

    • Are subject to change and continuous improvement

    • Are a more detailed description of activities

    • Are statements of how, when and/or who & sometimes what

    • Detail a process

Resource Document

  • Supplemental guidance

  • Helpful information for employees to refer to about a specific topic

  • Usually referred to after looking at the policy

  • No standard format

From around the Web:

The Key Difference between Policy vs. Procedures - Compliance Bridge (c2017)

    > Nevermind that they are trying to sell their own software, this page does a great job of 

    1) defining policies and procedures,

    2) explaining the differences, 

    3) and how they work together.  

 

What is a Policy vs. a Procedure - PowerDMS (c2020)

 

Policy vs. Process vs. Procedure: What's the Difference? - Triaster Blog (c2021)

 

Differences Between Policies, Procedures, Protocols, Guidance and PPPGs - Bettal Quality Consultancy (2020)

 

Developing Policies Protocols and Procedures - [Not sure where this comes from or by whom, but it answers many questions on this topic.]

Page 13-14 look at the definitions and differences between these 3 under: Are Policies, Procedures & Protocols the same thing?


Wednesday, March 2, 2022

Clinical Key Content Updates - February 2022



The content of Clinical Key is constantly being updated.  Here are the February highlights.

Clinical Key

Clinical Key Search Tips & Tutorials

ClinicalKey Content Updates: February 28, 2022


Updated Clinical Overviews – Selected Topics

 

Books Added – CK Global

Questions or comments, contact Your Ascension Wisconsin Librarians: 
 Michele Matucheski        Kellee Selden

Tuesday, March 1, 2022

Henrietta Lacks and Her Immortal HeLa Cells

 

Henrietta Lacks: The Mother of Modern Medicine 

Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery

This post is a summary and follow-up to some of the things I learned about 
Henrietta Lacks through AAMLA's Experience MLA in February. The African American Caucus 
of the Medical Library Association (AAMLA) hosted a 3-week online book discussion of
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by journalist Rebecca Skloot.

In small group discussions with facilitators, participants had the opportunity to thoughtfully 
grapple with some of the ethical, health equity, patient-provider communication 
and other difficult issues raised by the case. I was grateful for the opportunity: 
Some books are definitely better discussed!


Download the complete reader’s guide (pdf) for book discussion groups.  It includes:  

  • discussion questions
  • timeline
  • cast of characters  and more ...
The month-long focus on Henrietta Lacks culminated in a talk by Chris Belter,
Informationist at The NIH. The Bright Talk below is similar:

Analyzing the Legacy of Henrietta Lacks; The Impact of HeLa cells on Research  
Bright Talk from November 2019

Presented by:
Chris Belter, Informationist at the NIH Library, and Holly J. Falk-Krzesinski,
PhD, ICSR Advisory Board Member & VP, Elsevier

About this talk:
In 1951, a young black woman named Henrietta Lacks was diagnosed with
cervical cancer. During her treatment, her doctor took a sample of her cells
and tried to grow them in culture. The cells, called HeLa cells, were the first
human cells that could be grown in a laboratory and are still the most widely
studied cells in biomedical research, having led to treatments for diseases
such as polio, HIV, and cancer.

HeLa Cells: A Lasting Contribution to Biomedical Research 
The NIH created this site in response to The Lacks Family asking exactly what wonderful 
and amazing scientific advances came of their mother's HeLa cells.  This is the result of 
Chris Belter's project above ...  in plain language.   
 
After analyzing more than 110,000 research papers published between 1953 and 2016, 
the website includes a timeline showing some of the major scientific advances 
made possible by the immortal HeLa cells, including:
    • laying the groundwork for the polio vaccine
    • helping scientists understand the effects of x-rays on human cells
    • developing cancer research methods
    • Research on infectious diseases such as how do salmonella and TB make people sick
    • slowing cancer growth
    • understanding HIV infection
    • learning how cells age
    • understanding how viruses cause certain cancers
    • Efforts to protect privacy while advancing science.
Looking for even more information, see this excellent guide from Columbia College: