By Rebecca | Published:
October 14, 2009
The ANA has partnered with the Physicians for Social Responsibility to release the report, Hazardous Chemicals In Health Care: a snapshot of chemicals found in doctors and nurses. This is the first investigation done ever about chemicals found in health care professionals. Twelve doctors and six nurses from ten states were tested for [...]
By Rebecca | Published:
October 12, 2009
The National Library of Medicine has released a beta version of a new website called the Pillbox. This website can serve as a means of identifying drugs and a reference system for solid dosage medications. Pillbox Beta has two versions: the Adobe Flex version is designed for rapid identification of an unknown medication; the Pillbox [...]
By Rebecca | Published:
October 7, 2009
Corrections to the APA Style Manual, 6th edition, are available online as a PDF document. This has been posted to the Nursing Research Guide in the Tutorials & Videos section.
By Rebecca | Published:
October 6, 2009
New and updated sections on the RefWorks Quick Start Guide include:
Exporting References into Cochrane and EMBASE
Using RefGrab-It with PubMed
Updated Write-N-Cite section and more!
By Rebecca | Published:
October 2, 2009
Printed versions of the CINAHL Tutorials have been posted to the Nursing Research Guide’s Tutorials & Video’s page. The files are Word documents which can either be opened directly from the guide or saved onto your computer. Since these files have images, they may take a little while to download onto your computer.
By Rebecca | Published:
September 30, 2009
There are two new nodes that you can search through in JBI COnNECT:
Burns Care
Mental Health
Access is also available for Psych Evidence Matters, an evidence-based tool. This new tool can be found by clicking on the JBI COnNECT + link on the left side of the screen.
By Rebecca | Published:
September 30, 2009
There will be a new version of PubMed coming soon! Go to the preview website to see the new look. Please keep an eye on the UIC Library blog for further updates.
By Rebecca | Published:
September 22, 2009
HealthDay TV is a new feature available on MEDLINEplus. A new HealthDay TV news video will be displayed each weekday in a “consumer-friendly format.” A Saturday summary video will also be available which will be a wrap-up of the previous week’s headlines. These videos are available in English only.
By Rebecca | Published:
September 18, 2009
ANA Safe Patient Handling has background information about safe patient handling, ANA’s history on SPH, and SPH solution documents and toolkits. There is also information about what ANA is doing about SPH such as federal and state legislation information.
By Rebecca | Published:
September 15, 2009
Last week, the Joint Commission launched the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare. Its goal is to team up with hospitals and health systems to find the causes of breakdowns in healthcare and work together to find a solution. The first initiative that will be addressed is hand washing failures. The following hospitals have [...]