The AW Library Newsletter - July 2023: NRC Plus - Nurses Choice - ChatGPT - Radium Girls - Gaudeamus Igitur at 40 - Mini Medical Schools - Data Viz

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Nurses Choice Recommended Reading - July 2023

Exploring ChatGPT: Navigating its Implications for an Academic Medical Center [Cleveland Clinic Podcast]

The Arts in Medicine: Gaudeamus Igitur at 40--A Tribute and Assessment

Radium Girls: America's "Shining Women"

July is National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month

Mini Medical Schools

Create Effective Data Visualizations - NNLM Webinar

How to sign up for eTOC / New Issues Alerts to your favorite professional ejournals

Read the June 2023 Newsletter.

Questions, comments, or search requests, contact Your Ascension Wisconsin Librarians:

 Michele Matucheski   &   Kellee Selden

Our AW Library website is available 24/7.

Q: Where do I find AW Library Resources in EPIC?

Question: Where do I find AW Library Resources in EPIC?

Answer:   Here are at least 3 places you can find AW Library resources in EPIC.

1) In EPIC > Patient's Chart >  right side bar in Training Tools

2) The other place to find AW Library Resources is on the Inpatient & OB Learning Home screen ... 

Look for the Web References box (highlighted in yellow below)

The Web References box within EPIC offers live links for:

• AW Library Services
• PubMed Medline
• Lexicomp
• DynaMed
• Nursing Reference Center Plus (NRC Plus)
• The Nursing Point-of-Care Guide (When you need more than NRC Plus)
• AW Opioid Guideline and Pain Management

3) 

Some people may see Ascension Library Services in EPIC's top red menu bar, although this does not seem to show for everyone.  

Nurses Choice Recommended Reading - July 2023

 

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July 2023 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. Take a Nursing Poll or Quiz! - Updated Regularly

Severe hypoglycemia: A diabetes emergency Nursing Made Incredibly Easy!, July/August 2023 Cardiac Hospice Care - A Collaborative Approach to Managing Heart Failure Home Healthcare Now, July/August 2023 Necessary Products for the Prevention and Treatment of Pressure Injuries: Lessons Learned That Translate Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic Advances in Skin & Wound Care: The Journal for Prevention and Healing, July 2023 Calibration of the PREdiction of DELIRium in ICu Patients (PRE-DELIRIC) Score in a Cohort of Critically Ill Patients: A Retrospective Cohort Study Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing, July/August 2023 Closing the Workforce Staffing Chasm by Breaking Boundaries: Innovative Partnerships and Strategies Between Recruitment and Nursing Nursing Administration Quarterly, July/September 2023 Compassion, collaboration, and community: Strategies for staff well-being Nursing Management, June 2023 Preventing transfusion-associated circulatory overload in acute care settings Nursing2023, June 2023 Pharmacotherapeutics for dyslipidemia management The Nurse Practitioner, June 2023 Teaching Social Determinants of Health Through an Unfolding Case Study Nurse Educator, May/June 2023 Screening for Partner Postpartum Depression: A Systematic Review MCN, The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing, May/June 2023 Ascension Wisconsin Library Services * Questions about access, contact your Ascension Wisconsin Librarians:   Michele Matucheski        Kellee Selden

July is National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month

 

Guest post by Miles Dietz-Castel at the National Network of Medical Libraries (NNLM), Region 6.  The NNLM is the outreach arm of The National Library of Medicine, supporting health care professionals and providing a wealth of information to better care for our patients.

In 2008, July was declared as National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month, also known as Bebe Moore Campbell National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month. Campbell (1950-2006) was a teacher, journalist and mental health advocate who was passionate about bringing awareness to mental health struggles minority communities often face.

Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act as we cope with life. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make choices. More than 1 in 5 US adults live with a mental illness. Mental health issues are treatable and often preventable, but not everyone has access to the resources they need. People in some racial and ethnic minority groups face more challenges than others getting mental health care. These can include factors such as lack of access to quality mental health care services, cultural stigma surrounding mental health care, discrimination, and overall lack of awareness about mental health.

Learn more about prioritizing Minority Mental Health with these resources below.

*  Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

*  U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Office of Minority Health

*  National Alliance on Mental Health (NAMI)

*  MedlinePlus – Mental Health and Behavior Health Topics

*  PubMed – Minority Mental Health

*  Multilingual Health Media Resources on Mental Health and Behavior

Region 6 is working to improve health equity by establishing State Advisory Group (SAG) action plans and funding for each state. Many of these plans focus on minority mental health. See the list of each state plan here.

This post originally appeared on the Midwest Matters Blog on July 7, 2023.  

Used by permission.

Disclaimer:  The views and opinions in this post are solely those of the author, and may not be reflect those of Ascension Health Care.

NRC Plus FAQ Home and Mobile Access

 

Ascension's national subscription for Nursing Reference Center Plus (NRC Plus) includes access at home or via mobile device.  

See the 2 handouts below to help answer some of the most frequent questions:

• NRC Plus  - Home & Mobile Access (Ascension access only)
• NRC Plus  - Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) (Ascension access only)

These documents are shared on GoogleDrive. 
Ascension users will be asked to sign in with your usual network login.  

More help and Tutorials about NRC Plus on our NRC Plus Search Tips page. 

Mini Medical Schools

 

Understanding Glaucoma Diagnosis, Treatment, and Research on the Horizon

8/14/2021; 74 minutes

Glaucoma is the progressive loss and thinning of the tissue forming the optic nerve. UCSF experts explain that glaucoma isn't just one disease. They also look at risk factors, how it's diagnosed, and new treatment options, as well as explore promising research on the horizon. Recorded on 06/09/2021. (#37146)

In the course of doing some research recently, I stumbled across the above Mini Medical School for the Public video from  The University of California-San Francisco.

Their Mini Medical School for the Public Series is archived online for anyone to view.

See also this video listing or their YouTube channel.

Many of these programs have been recorded, archived and posted online for anyone to watch on their own time.  Many medical schools offer such programs as a way to give back to their communities, and as a form of outreach to let people know what they're working on.  Here's the mission statement from The Oscher Collaborative:

The UCSF Osher Mini Medical School for the Public is designed to provide members of the community the opportunity to see and hear what goes on every day in UCSF’s classrooms and research labs with lectures from the same faculty who are on the front lines, teaching students in the health professions. UCSF Osher Mini Medical School addresses the accelerating public interest in the scientific knowledge behind the health headlines, the role of the consumer in health care decision making, and each citizen’s role in participating in the shaping of health policy.

You can still sign up for current courses and pay a registration fee to be part of the current semester.  Older sessions are archived and freely available.  

Do a google search for mini medical schools, and you'll find other options.   Here are a few:

• UC Davis - Mini Medical School Channel
• Washington University - School of Medicine - Mini Medical School Archives

Brought to your attention by your Ascension Wisconsin Librarians:

 Michele Matucheski   &   Kellee Selden

Our AW Library website is available 24/7.

Radium Girls: America's "Shining Women"

Radium Girls: the dark story of America's shining women

It's a heartbreaking story about watch-dial painters in Orange, NJ and Ottawa, IL during the 1920s.   These young women were hired to paint numbers on watch faces.  The paint had radium in it, which made the numbers glow in the dark.  At the time, radium derivatives were believed to have restorative properties, even while others warned of the dangers of pure radium.  But the women were not cautioned or even told about the dangerous materials they were working with, and how they were interacting with them.  But within a few years Radium Girls starting showing signs of radium poisoning, including damage to their tissues and bones.   Deborah Blum, author of The Poisoner's Handbook, wrote that "There was one woman who the dentist went to pull a tooth and he pulled her entire jaw out when he did it...Their legs broke underneath them. Their spines collapsed."    

Many women and other workers at these plants came down with very rare and unusual cancers at very young ages.   I am grateful for OSHA protections and occupational health efforts today that would prevent things like this from happening again.

• Read more on the Radium Girls from this short comic. 
• Interested in reading the book by Kate Moore? 
• Check out a print copy at the Mercy Library (Oshkosh): WA 470 M822 2018

• Don't have time to read, but still want to hear more about the story?  Check out the audio stories below:
• Women with a Toxic Glow - To the Best of Our Knowledge (from 2017)

Or watch the movie (c2018) [This is only the trailer.] 

Exploring ChatGPT: Navigating its Implications for an Academic Medical Center [Podcast]

Exploring ChatGPT: Navigating its Implications for an Academic Medical Center (Part 1)

Delve into ChatGPT and its pros and cons with respect to medical education, and medical and scientific publishing. We discuss concerns raised by the medical library community, guidelines for responsible usage in research papers and the broader implications of AI advancement. Join them us as we debate the idea of a moratorium on advanced training for AI and its potential threats to and opportunities for academic medical centers.

Exploring ChatGPT: Navigating its Implications for an Academic Medical Center (Part 2)

In this episode, we continue our conversation about ChatGPT and its pros and cons with respect to medical education, and medical and scientific publishing, addressing concerns raised by the medical library community, guidelines for responsible usage in research papers and the broader implications of AI advancement. Join them as they debate the idea of a moratorium on advanced training for AI and its potential threats to and opportunities for academic medical centers. 

Brought to your attention by your Ascension Wisconsin Librarians:

 Michele Matucheski   &   Kellee Selden

Our AW Library website is available 24/7.

Create Effective Data Visualizations - NNLM Webinar

Create Effective Data Visualizations

The NNLM has offered a number of excellent webinars recently.  Here's another one on data viz for those of you who are so inclined.

I was particularly happy to hear them say, "Forget Pie Charts!"

Instructors: Katie Pierce Farrier, Elizabeth Roth

Data visualization is a key part of communicating information. Learn about common types of visualizations and how to use them to meet the information needs of your audience. This class will give examples of different chart types and will discuss common pitfalls when creating visualizations. Lastly, instructors will use example datasets to demonstrate creating visualizations in Tableau Public. 

Objectives:

1. Identify common types of data and their uses.
2. Determine strengths and weaknesses of example data visualizations
3. Use Tableau Public to create data visualizations.

Class Resources:

Slide Deck

Practice Dataset

Upload Instructions for Dataset to Tableau

Additional Reading on Data Visualization: 

Effective Data Visualization (c2019)

Call Number: 93.5 E937 2019  Available at the Mercy Library in Oshkosh

Storytelling with Data (c2015)

Available as an eBook through MyLearning.

The Functional Art (c2012)

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (c2001)

Knowledge is Beautiful (c2014)

See more from MyLearning on data visualization.

Brought to your attention by your Ascension Wisconsin Librarians:

 Michele Matucheski   &   Kellee Selden

Our AW Library website is available 24/7.

How to sign up for eTOC / New Issues Alerts to your favorite professional ejournals

Keep up with the current literature in your field with table-of-contents from your favorite professional journals to your email box.  eTOCs are free, easy, and convenient!

1. Look for eTOC sign-up sheets at the Ascension Wisconsin Libraries Website in the blue navigation bar across the top of the page.
2. Select either the Clin eTOC, Med eTOC, or Lead eTOC form.
3. Review the journal titles available for eTOC / New Issue Alerts service.
4. Select the journal titles for which you’d like to receive current table-of-contents.  Mark your selections on the form.
5. Return the form to Michele.Matucheski@ascension.org or fax to 920-223-0343.
6. As new issues of the journals you selected are released, you will receive an email message with the table-of-contents in your Ascension email box.
7. Click on the articles you would like to read in full.

 It's that simple!

Comments, questions, requests or suggestions, please contact your Ascension Wisconsin Librarian:

Michele Matucheski, MLS, AHIP Medical Librarian  Ascension Wisconsin Library Services   |   Request Forms

The Arts in Medicine: Gaudeamus Igitur at 40--A Tribute and Assessment

If you're looking for a reminder of your purpose and a reason for joy in the healing professions, this recent article about an old poem in JAMA might ring true for you.

There's a Wisconsin connection, too.

Fleming EA, Bettendorf BA. Gaudeamus Igitur at 40-A Tribute and Assessment. JAMA. 2023 Jun 27;329(24):2111-2113. doi: 10.1001/jama.2023.9330. PMID: 37294564.  Link to article.

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Brought to your attention by your Ascension Wisconsin Librarians:

                                    Michele Matucheski   and   Kellee Selden