Tuesday, June 25, 2024

AW Library Newsletter - June 2024

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"Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson


Ascension Wisconsin Librarians support your health care decisions with evidence-based research and full text resources.    

Contact us for research, articles, training, or online access.   Just ask!
  • The easiest way to find AW Library Services is to Google "Ascension Wisconsin Library."    

Catch up on the latest news from Ascension Wisconsin Library Services:

CNOs Share Post-Cyberattack Lessons - From Becker's Hospital Review

Nurses Choice Recommended Reading - June 2024



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

 Michele Matucheski   &   Kellee Selden

 Use the Request Form if you need research or articles.

Our AW Library website is available 24/7.
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Monday, June 24, 2024

Nurses Choice Recommended Reading - June 2024

 


Our Clinical Editor select 10 of the most important journal articles from over 70 nursing journals that we publish and compiles them here. In Recommended Reading for Nurses, we offer access to the hottest topics in nursing and healthcare, as well as other “must-read” content.

Climate Change and Cardiovascular Health
Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, July/August 2024

Emotional intelligence: A nurse manager's relationship to a healthy work environment
Nursing Management, June 2024

Migraine in adults: Overview of pharmacologic treatments
The Nurse Practitioner, June 2024

It's better to give than receive: Nursing and community engagement
Nursing Made Incredibly Easy!, May/June 2024

Multiple Myeloma
Home Healthcare Now, May/June 2024

Effects of Oxygen Therapy on Patients with a Chronic Wound: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Advances in Skin & Wound Care, May 2024

A Clinical Nurse Specialist in Home Healthcare
Clinical Nurse Specialist, May/June 2024

Text messaging support to enhance nurses' well-being and connectedness
Nursing2024, May 2024

How Nurses Influence the Patient Experience
AJN, American Journal of Nursing, April 2024

Primary palliative care in the ICU
Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, April 2024

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* Questions about access, contact your Ascension Wisconsin Librarians: 

 Michele Matucheski        Kellee Selden

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Wednesday, June 19, 2024

Why Search Algorithms Matter ...

 



This video is an oldie, but a goodie, and an excellent reminder that search engine results are optimized NOT for the good of all.    Think about this the next time you do a Google Search.  

Back in 2009, when Safiya Noble, a visiting professor, conducted a Google search using keywords "black girls," "latina girls," and "asian girls," the first page of results were invariably linked to pornography.
In her book, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism, Noble delves into the ways search engines misrepresent a variety of people, concepts, types of information and knowledge. Her aim: to get people thinking and talking about the prominent role technology plays in shaping our lives and our future.
This video explores her journey into researching this topic and what it means to us.




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Sunday, June 16, 2024

New Emergency Contact Law in Wisconsin


As of June 1, 2024, Wisconsin residents can now add one emergency contact to their driver license or ID card record.  This contact information could be available to law enforcement agencies in the event you are in a collision or are experiencing a medical emergency.

Sign up here

 https://wisconsindot.gov/Pages/dmv/license-drvs/how-to-apply/Emergency-contact.aspx


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Saturday, June 15, 2024

CNOs Share Post-Cyberattack Lessons - From Becker's Hospital Review



Your Ascension Wisconsin Librarians recommend the following article from Becker's Hospital Review / Becker's Clinical Leadership: 

CNOs Share Post-Cyberattack Lessons by Ashleigh Hollowell (6/11/2024)

"Learn from real-life experiences of hospitals affected by cyberattacks in 2023 and how they prepared for and managed the unexpected outages."
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Friday, June 14, 2024

Art in Medicine: The Sketches of Leonardo da Vinci


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C.A. 1490 


         The June 2024 Art In Medicine topic is about Da Vinci's Anatomical Drawings.

Lucinda Bennett, the Medical Librarian at Ascension St Agnes Hospital in Baltimore, MD,  publishes a regular series on Art in Medicine and The Health Humanities.    

It's only 1-2 pages with gorgeous images, so it won't take you long to read ... and just might enrich your life.  



Da Vinci’s Anatomical Drawings

Among the great minds of the European Renaissance, one stands out as quite possibly the most influential of the era - Leonardo Da Vinci. His name has become synonymous with the term ‘Renaissance Man’, being someone who masters a plethora of skills and disciplines. In the art world, Da Vinci is known for his paintings, usually portraits, and their impact on the visual medium. However, he is also revered in the realm of engineering for his many experiments with machinery, as well as in architecture for his designs in grand structures.

Within the field of medicine, he is known for his many anatomical drawings, which were never published within his lifetime. In fact, these momentous images were not fully appreciated until centuries after his death. As a student of the visual arts, the study of the human form was incredibly important, and was often undertaken illegally via cadaver dissection. “Although the date of Leonardo’s initial involvement with anatomical study is not known, it is sound to speculate that his anatomical interest was sparked during his apprenticeship in Verrocchio’s workshop, either in response to his master’s interest or to that of Verrocchio’s neighbor Pollaiuolo, who was renowned for his fascination with the workings of the human body. It cannot be determined exactly when Leonardo began to perform dissections, but it might have been several years after he first moved to Milan, at the time a centre of medical investigation.” (Encyclopedia Britannica) Some scholars have estimated, based upon the artist’s
own writings, that Leonardo must have conducted dissections upon thirty or so bodies. The practice of a medical or artistic student practicing dissection was not new in the Renaissance, in fact it goes quite far back into history and bodies were acquired through various means. “Though human dissections date back to about the third century BCE, the first recorded public dissection took place around 1315,  when Italian physician and anatomist Mondino de Luzzi performed a dissection on an executed criminal. For centuries, laws in Europe and the United States allowed dissections of executed criminals. However, da Vinci was able to procure bodies from hospitals across Italy. In Florence, he befriended a centenarian who he then witnessed peacefully pass away.” (PBS) 

So, how many drawings did Leonardo make in his lifetime? Eventually there came enough pages to fill two volumes of anatomical images, compiled over the course of twenty or so years in between other projects. “Leonardo’s interest in anatomy began when he was working for Ludovico in Milan. “On the 2nd day of April 1489”, as he wrote at the head of a page in a new notebook, he sat down to begin his “Book entitled On the Human Figure.”  After executing a sequence of stunning drawings of a skull, though, his studies went into abeyance, probably because he lacked access to corpses that he could dissect. But his ambitions to publish a comprehensive treatise on human anatomy persisted – and around two decades later, he returned to his otherwise unused notebook...In it he made a number of pen-and-ink drawings recording his observations while dissecting an old man who had died in a hospital in Florence in the winter of 1507-08...In the winter of 1510-11, while probably collaborating with a young professor of anatomy called Marcantonio della Torre at the University of Pavia, Leonardo compiled a series of 18 mostly double-sided sheets exploding with more than 240 individual drawings and over 13,000 words of notes.” (BBC) 

Now, we must ask ourselves, just how accurate are these drawings? Being made from life does lend credence to anatomical accuracy, but not every image is now considered absolutely correct. A lack of access to female specimens does present inconsistencies in Da Vinci’s, as stated in an interview with a Professor Peter Abrahams in the BBC News on the topic: “According to Prof Abrahams the upper half of the drawing of a torso is a fairly accurate observation of the body. The liver, for example, is correctly placed not far below the woman's right breast.  Its size suggests that the woman may have suffered from liver disease. The problems with the image start lower down, however...the uterus is wrong. This image, he suggests, is reminiscent of what we see in animals such as cows.  It is possible that given the difficulty of getting hold of female corpses, Leonardo used the knowledge that he had gained from dissecting animals to help him understand the human body.”  However, in the renditions of the spine and heart, Leonardo is remarkable in his ability to replicate and correctly deduce the working functions of these organs and bones. Had his work been published during his own lifetime, the correct workings of the human heart (being a four-chambered organ which cycled in a specific manner) would have been known centuries before modern medicine correctly discovered it. And it was his training in a seemingly unrelated field which assisted in his theory on the correct working of the human body - that of architecture and machinery. According to Peter Abrahams, Leonardo perfectly captured the delicate curve and tilt of the spine, and the snug fit of one vertebra into another. “Professor Abrahams suggests that it was Leonardo's skill as an architect and engineer that gave him the insight in to how the body actually works.”


Reprinted with the generous permission of Ms. Bennett.
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Wednesday, June 12, 2024

Clinical Key Updates: May 2024

   

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

Clinical Key

Clinical Key Search Tips & Tutorials

Clinical Key Content Updates - May 2024


The following books have been added to Clinical Key as of May 2024:

Books Added – CK Global

  • Sectional Anatomy by MRI and CT (Anderson, Mark) 5th ed; ISBN: 9780323934480; Package/Collection: Radiology Extended; New edition (replaces 9780323394192); 
  • Urgent Care Medicine Secrets (Olympia, Robert) 2nd ed; ISBN: 9780443107528; Package/Collection: Emergency Medicine; New edition (replaces 9780323462150); 

Questions or comments, contact Your Ascension Wisconsin Librarians: 
 Michele Matucheski        Kellee Selden
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Monday, June 10, 2024

Clinical Key Updates: April 2024

  

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

Clinical Key

Clinical Key Search Tips & Tutorials

Clinical Key Content Updates - April 2024null


The following books have been added to Clinical Key as of April 2024:

Books Added – CK Global


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