Wednesday, October 22, 2025

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



Dear AW Rehab Professionals:


Welcome to Ascension Wisconsin Library Services!


           

Michele Matucheski, MLS, AHIP 

with support from Mary Hyde, MSLS, AHIP


We are your Medical Librarians for Ascension Wisconsin.   

Allow me 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.  

Good Day Ascension > Ministry Markets > Wisconsin 

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.  


Rehabilitation Guide – a Guide filled with tools and sources that will be most helpful to a busy Rehab Professional, including  eBooks, eJournals, patient education, professional development and more.     Consider adding this LibGuide to your Favorites.


Clinical References: Physician & Provider ToolBox – a Guide filled with tools and sources that will be most helpful to a busy Physician, including  sources for point-of-care, drug info, diagnosis tools, access to over 1400 eBooks, full-text articles, patient education, and more.     You may want to consider adding this page to your Favorites/Bookmarks as well. 


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.


 

Clinical Key with Clinical Overviews and Procedures Consult

There’s also a Search Tips Page for Clinical Key, filled with useful articles, tutorials and videos to help you get the most out of it.   Consider signing up for a personal account with remote access for added functionality.

                Clinical Overviews are similar to UptoDate, by offering review articles on 1400 primary care topics, including current evidence, treatment and dosing info, and more.

                ProceduresConsult is like YouTube for Medicine.  It’s great if you need to review a procedure before you have to do it.  It provides a web video, along with a complete write-up of the procedure, including coding info.

                Clinical Key includes 1100+ medical eBooks, and 500+ eJournals.  

                  > The most useful CK eBooks are called out on the Rehab LibGuide under the Books Tab.  


Elsevier Clinical Key Skills (aka Clinical Key for Nursing) is a point-of-care tool for Nursing and Allied Health (including Rehabilitation!) that includes:

  • eBooks
  • eJournals
  • Clinical Overviews
  • Over 2000 Nursing & Allied Health (including 141 Rehabilitation) Skills
  •      > CEUs are available through MyLearning
  • Drug Identifier - Adverse Reactions, Drug Interactions
  • Labs - with normal values and nursing implications

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


Icons / Links for Elsevier ClinicalKey Skills should be on all AW desktops, and linked within the EHRs and local intranets as well as the AW Library pages. 



 

Let me 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 Librarian,

Michele 

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Michele Matucheski, MLS, AHIP

Medical Librarian

Michele.Matucheski@ascension.org

WiMedLibrary@ascension.org



Ascension Wisconsin Library Services 

       Find More Answers on our Ascension Wisconsin Research Guides   

Physicians & Providers: Welcome to Ascension Wisconsin Library Services - Library Resources to Make Your Work Life Easier



Dear AW Physicians & Providers:


Welcome to Ascension Wisconsin Library Services!


         

Michele Matucheski, MLS, AHIP  

with support from Mary Hyde, MSLS, AHIP


We are your Medical Librarians for Ascension Wisconsin.   

Allow us 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.  

Good Day Ascension > Ministry Markets > Wisconsin 

We offer a New Issue Alerts / eTOC current awareness service so you can keep up with your favorite professional eJournals.  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.  


Clinical References - Physician & Provider ToolBox – a Library Guide filled with tools and sources that will be most helpful to a busy Physician, including  sources for point-of-care, drug info, diagnosis tools, access to over 1400 eBooks, full-text articles, patient education, and more.     You may want to consider adding this page to your Favorites/Bookmarks as well. 


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.


Lexidrug Clinical Drug Reference

              Dosing info, interactions, etc.  

              Lexidrug Search Tips - Includes info about the mobile app. 


Natural Medicines

             This database compliments Lexicomp by providing evidence-based info on natural medicines and supplements.

              Search Tips & Tutorials: Natural Medicines 

 

Clinical Key (CK) with Clinical Overviews and Procedures Consult

There’s also a Search Tips Page for Clinical Key, filled with useful articles, tutorials and videos to help you get the most out of it. 

                Clinical Overviews are similar to UptoDate, by offering review articles on 1400 primary care topics, including current evidence, treatment and dosing info, and more.

                ProceduresConsult is like YouTube for Medicine.  It’s great if you need to review a procedure before you have to do it.  It provides a web video, along with a complete write-up of the procedure, including coding info.

                Clinical Key includes 1100+ medical eBooks, and 500+ eJournals. 

Here is a sample of some of the specialty content from CK

 

                Internal Medicine eBooks in Clinical Key

                Emergency Medicine eBooks in Clinical Key

 

                Internal Medicine eBooks in Access Medicine

                Emergency Medicine eBooks in AccessMedicine

 

Let me 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 Librarian,

Michele 

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Michele Matucheski, MLS, AHIP

Medical Librarian

Michele.Matucheski@ascension.org

WiMedLibrary@ascension.org

 


Ascension Wisconsin Library Services 

       Find More Answers on our Ascension Wisconsin Research Guides   


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



Dear AW Nurses: 


Welcome to Ascension Wisconsin Library Services!


           

Michele Matucheski, MLS, AHIP 
with support from Mary Hyde, MSLS, AHIP

 

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.  

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.  


Elsevier Clinical Key Skills (aka Clinical Key for Nursing)is a point-of-care tool for Nursing and Allied Health that includes:

  • eBooks
  • eJournals
  • Clinical Overviews
  • Over 2000 Nursing & Allied Health Skills
  •      > CEUs are available through MyLearning
  • Drug Identifier - Adverse Reactions, Drug Interactions
  • Labs - with normal values and nursing implications

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


Icons / Links for Elsevier ClinicalKey Skills should be on all AW desktops, and linked within the EHRs and local intranets as well as the AW Library pages. 



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

           See also: CinahlFT Search Tips


Nursing Point-of-Care Guide 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)
  • Drug Info
  • Taber’s Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary
  • Cinahl (Find Nursing Articles)
  • Patient Education
  • Includes links to go deeper with the Nursing Specialties Guide and Clinical Key.
  • Links should be included in all AW EHRs.


Nursing Specialties Guide  compliments The Nursing Point-of-Care Guide, 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.    


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

              Dosing info, interactions, etc.  

              LexiDrug 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 for Medicine 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 know if I can be of any help to you.  If you want an in-depth look at any of our resources, I'd be happy to give you a personalized tour.  Let me know if you want to schedule something.

 

Your AW Medical Librarian,

Michele 

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Michele Matucheski, MLS, AHIP

Medical Librarian

Michele.Matucheski@ascension.org

WiMedLibrary@ascension.org

 


Ascension Wisconsin Library Services 

       Find More Answers on our Ascension Wisconsin Research Guides