The new Nursing Research Guide has a brand new look! It has the following sections:
Books
Evidence-based Practice Tools
Professional Association Links
Research Databases
RSS Feeds to major nursing journals
Videos and Tutorials
The Nursing Liaisons hope you will find the new page helpful. Please contact us if you have any suggestions about improving the research guide.
The University of Maryland School of Nursing has developed free web modules for practicing nurses that cover the most current information about breast cancer. These web modules were created because of a partnership between the university and the Maryland Affiliate of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure.
Want to earn CE for the web modules? [...]
Check out this story in the New York Times about Sergey Brin, Google Co Founder, contributing “money and his DNA to a large study intended to reveal the genetic underpinnings of Parkinson’s disease.”
The Library of the Health Sciences-Chicago is hosting an open house for Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America’s Women Physicians, an interactive, multimedia traveling exhibition that honors the lives and achievements of American women in medicine – past and present. The open house takes place on Thursday, March 19, 2009, 3:00-4:30 pm. [...]
A brand new Nursing Subject Guide will be making its debut next Wednesday. UIC Library purchased LibGuides, a web 2.0 library knowledge sharing system. LibGuides gives librarians a better opportunity to share library resources with their patrons. All of the research guides will eventually switch over to this brand new look.
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Peg Burnette was appointed Visiting Assistant Professor and Visiting Health Sciences Librarian at LHS-Peoria effective February 16, 2009. Peg earned her MSLIS from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2006. She held various positions at LHS-Peoria since 1981, achieving 27 years of service. Peg also published articles in Library Hi Tech and The Reference [...]
On March 11th, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Aligning Forces for Quality Initiative selected 16 hospitals to participate in the first two cohorts of its Transforming Care at the Bedside Collaborative, one of which will commence this month and the other in the fall. Nurse-led teams will be be improving the quality of medical and [...]
The Library is pleased to announce that three new electronic resources are available.
ECCO (Eighteenth Century Collections Online) is a project that digitizes every significant English-language and foreign-language book printed in Great Britain during the eighteenth century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas. ECCO and EEBO (Early English Books Online) are cross-searchable [...]
Need data on patient discharge or patient demographics? The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (or called H-CUP) is a group of health care databases and related tools for research and decision making. HCUP, which is sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), has the following databases:
State Inpatient Databases (SID)
State Ambulatory Surgery Databases [...]